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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout
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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (9388)4/27/2008 2:09:04 PM
From: Fun-da-Mental#1  Read Replies (3) of 50693
 
Slider,

Interesting observation about Wall St. insiders snapping up farms in the heartland. I think I know what this is about, and it's not about Armageddon rendering the cities uninhabitable (although plenty of people will tell you that, because it sounds cool). It's part of a larger social trend. It's a combination of:

1) neo-hippie environmentalist back-to-the-land esthetic
2) the quest for affordable housing
3) the feeling that now the party's over, Wall St. and big-city stuff in general is no longer where it's at.

The other day I was at a party and two L.A. hipsters were telling me they were so appalled by a documentary they saw about factory farming that they were going to start shooting deer for meat.

I said they could also save a buck or two that way (no pun intended) and they were very quick to tell me it wasn't about the money.

I'd like to see what they would actually do with a dead deer if they could catch one...

Fun-da-Mental
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