Quote:
Originally Posted by peragro
Dude,
I have no idea what point you're trying to convey other than I have a stinky albatross (live in the desert, no sea birds here) and I hand out candy to children.
You do a quite admirable job of painting yourself into corners without anyone else to help.
Who is shooting at whom in this thread? I thought we were talking about a ballot initiative, not gun control.
BTW, already got a tractor. It's been running since the 50's, probably go a little longer... Moral of the story: my tractor will be running long after there's no food in Berkeley. See, ya went and made me say that after I'd gone and [/whine]. I don't know why you bring that out in me???  
Dude. |
Wrong. Moral of the story: tractors are built in factories, not on farms.
Odd that you're singing the praise of the farming man, during a time when something (couldn't be rampant population growth) is bringing about the conversion of 4 to 5 sq. miles of farmland a
DAY to urban use and the nonstop pressure to make the remaining land feed the teeming masses erodes the hell out of it, in general.
My notion is that all of us should take more responsibility for our food chain -- gardens in every back yard that is suited for it; more urban pea-patches, etc. I've had several gardens (oh baby, vine ripened cherry toms), not at present sadly, don't have the land for it.
But I don't buy the notion that urban life has nothing to offer the world or that the teeming masses in SF and LA should let their country cousins do all the voting. Where do farmers send their family members when they get a really serious illness? To some spartan rural clinic (valuable as those may be) or to a modern hospital in a major city? Cities must offer something to rural folks else there'd be no reason for rural folks to exchange their produce for urban cash -- IOW there would be no trade.
As for the albatross, I can hardly believe you think you've caught me in some foot in mouth comment with the remark in your sig line. Be my guest, display away.