Reply #50: Anybody with a soul calls it Criminal [View All]

[Grinchie]

The sad thing about all of this is that our educational system is owned and operated by the Corporations, who churn out gullible farmers that have been taught GAAP, or Generally Accepted Agricultural Practices, with emphasis on the products of the Ag Chemical and Seed companies. In fact, in order to get a loan from the USDA, you MUST follow the corporate developed methods and techniques in order to get a loan.

Now I could understand that they want to get paid back, but they basically disallow any independent thought or agricultural methods to be used to grow produce. I have done a great deal of research on the practices and methods of indigineous people and their techiques of growing crops. Most intersting is the history of the Pacific Islands, who watch thousands of years of successfull Agroforestry technique destroyed in lieu of the cash crop, Spam in a can, whiskey and flour. Many times by foreign interests looking to make a quick profit.

Well, the legacy is that most Tahitians can't even name the trees that supplied nearly everything to them 100 years ago. The home garden is disappearing, and the valuable multipurpose trees are removed so the Tractor can plow the soil for a cash crop of Casava monocrop. They now spend 90% of GDP on food imports. That is just one example. The 1970's destroy the idigenous agriculture at a frightening rate.

It's happing in South America right now as well. We have exported the One size fit's all Oil based, mechanized monocrop to everyone, and they are to stupid to see what they are losing, as long as they get a quick buck.

The same thing happened in Jamaica as well.

I use the old methods, and I do quite well with a machete, a mower, and once in a while, a weedeater. I use lots of trees which enrich the soil and provide shade. I don't force my plants to overproduce, and I return as much to the land as I can. I use chickens as pest control and conversion devices, they are wonderful creatures, and yes, I eat them afterwards. I honor them by enabling a happy, safe environment for the time they are on earth. It's the only honorable thing to do, considering that they give us egg's, meat and labor.