🚀 go-pugleaf

Fathom wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> Some of us "armchair theorists" live in really BIG cities, where farmers markets are
> few and FAR between. But when I do go to the "country", during the season, I do buy
> what I can because it tastes better it's certainly NO cheaper buying it in the field.

You live in a city bigger than Los Angeles, where we have farmers direct markets 
held every day of the week at various locations within a few miles radius ?   

Must be hell for you.

> Do I care about the "real craft of farming"....No, but I do care who CONTROLS
> the food supply. Just as you care about WHO controls our petroleum energy supply.
> Remember it's as EASY for the farmer to sell to the "chain store" as it is
> for me to buy from them. Why don't the craftsmen of farming learn the craft
> of distribution and cut out the middlemen?
> Fathom

A lot of farmers are already 'way ahead of you.  Better fuel up your
tractor skates.  

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