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To: maceng2 who wrote (11716)	11/27/2001 12:17:18 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Free enterprise. The market is the market. And it's the consumer who makes the market. Why does a place of buecolic bliss like Vermont have such trouble with heroin? It's not because of the growers. They are making a living, like cig makers, and beer makers, and chocolate makers, and growers of red-meat that is bad for hearts. Just as American farmers need reason to continue, so do foreign ones. If you break your back growing a crop that keeps us alive, you should make a living wage. Simple. Give growers of live-giving crops a reason to keep the world alive. There is no reason anyone should be starving. When there is a drought one place, there isn't another. But if the farmers in a drought ridden land, or a land where those crops pay so little in the best of time that they starve themselves growing them... what's the point of growing? Why grow wheat and be shoeless when you can grow poppies and have shoes? It makes not sense. That's a practical concern to be addressed. And I have farmland, so I do have reason to think about this. It's not like I couldn't make a fortune growing something else besides what I do. But I don't care about a fortune. But money to buy shoes while people enjoy cheap food? Yes. And we are as hooked on cheap food as we are cheap gas. Eek. That was a diatribe. But very FA, imo, again. And very domestic. We live off the backs of people not making a living so that we can have cheap stuff. Which helps the poor... and hurts the workers. Oy. That the farmer is the backbone of America is still true. The farmer is the backbone of the world. But most in the world can't live by farming food.