🚀 go-pugleaf

hc23hc <hc23hc@artlink.ne> wrote in message
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> Pseudo Escudo (Stan Rothwell) wrote:
> >
> > hc23hc <hc23hc@artlink.ne> wrote
> > > David Kaye wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So, we should expect to see much higher produce prices in the
future.
> > >
> > > There is so much monkey business in agribusiness, from additives
> > > to defoliants, cosmetic waxing of inert, useless produce and megatons
> > > of chemical manipulation of the food chain that it would be a blessing
> > > to pay more for produce if on a widespread basis, it weren't so rotten
> > > and produced in so many corrupt ways by gangsters who don't have to
> > > eat the crap they're heavily subsidized to bring to market.
> > >
> > > The migrant labor issue's one small part of the almost total
exploitation
> > > of farming.  If more Americans were more involved in the growing and
> > > harvesting of the lousy products, they'd be off their broccoli for
good.
> > > But what's it going to take to make that happen ?  Immigrants, legal
> > > or not, didn't start the agricultural ball rolling into hellish
decline.
> > > Corporate "farmers" did.  Fighting about immigrants just buys them
> > > more time.  If armchair immigration theorists cared as much about the
> > > real craft of farming as they claim to in passing, they'd be taking
> > > other, more effective action.
> > >
> > > Support accountable growers only.  Shop at local farmers' markets
> > > for all produce and never at chain stores.
> >
> > Sure, if you're willing to pay triple for a head of lettuce.
>
>
> Like you care what I pay for lettuce in the free economy, Stan ...
>
> Actually, most produce is probably less expensive at Hollywood
> Farmers' Market than at any Ralphs'; *good* produce certainly is.
> Sundays, 8:30am-1pm at Ivar & Selma.  Produce so good, even you,
> stingy bastard, wouldn't mind paying for it.

I'm a stingy bastard now? Clarabelle, you're a silly one.

>
> Besides, Stan, why use that old "cheap vegetables" argument?
>
> Your uninformed sniping's a load of cheap fertilizer.  Go have
> yourself another double Happy Meal, you big fat kid.

I prefer fish tacos, without the bile.  Kindly move on.