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I thought that it might be stimulating to read quotes of other people recognized as leaders. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things
over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of
catapult the propaganda." Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party
to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer
memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each
other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good
is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002 "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, ... and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln: from a letter to Col. William F. Elkins - 1864 Writing fifty years later in 1938, US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black echoed Lincoln's eleventh-hour realization: "...of the cases in this Court in which the Fourteenth Amendment was applied during the first fifty years after its adoption, less than one-half of one per cent invoked it in protection of the negro race, and more than fifty per cent asked that its benefits be extended to corporations... I do not believe that the Fourteenth Amendment had that purpose, nor that the people believed it had that purpose, nor that it should be construed as having that purpose." "We have to make America the best place in the world to do
business." "The stage is now set for direct competition for grain between
the 800 million people who own automobiles, and the world's 2 billion
poorest people." Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed
on them. "Humanity has eaten more than 80,000 plant species through its evolution. More than 3,000 have been used consistently. However, we now rely on just eight crops to provide 75 percent of the world's food. With genetic engineering, production has narrowed to three crops: corn, soya, canola. Monocultures are destroying biodiversity, our health and the quality and diversity of food" Vandana Shiva Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're
a thousand miles from the corn field. Across this country, a movement is spreading that acknowledges
a long-ignored reality: most of what we pay for our food goes to
companies who transport, process, and market what comes off the
farm, not to farmers themselves. The people who actually grow food
don’t get paid enough to keep on doing it. And so, from Maine
to California, some farmers are being supported by voluntary communities
of eaters organized to pay growers directly for what they produce.
Bypassing the supermarket, the middlemen, and the 747s that fly
produce around the world, these folks are getting fresh local produce
in season, at reasonable prices. This is a book about eater communities
who are buying what their local farmers grow, and this system is
called—appropriately—Community Supported Agriculture. JoanDye Gussow from the Foreward in Sharing the Harvest by Elizabeth Henderson with Robyn Van En Back to Email |
