[prakruti] Fw: INactivism - $90B farm welfare

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At 12:33 AM 7/22/07, you wrote:

>Kisan Mehta <kisansbc

>[prakruti] Fw: INactivism - $90B farm welfare

>PRAKRUTI GROUP <prakruti >

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>

>Dear Colleagues,

>

>The small and homestead farmers in the USA are facing the same situation as

>do our farmers and especially marginal farmers

>trying to sustain on the small pice of land that they have inherited

>over centuries.

>

>The only difference is a farmer having less than 200 acres is a

>small or homestead farmer in the US parlance while a marginal

>farmer in India owns less than 2 acres of land hardly ever irrigated.

>All irrigated water goes to rich farmers doing cash crops.

>

>Mr Paul of the Trading Post quoted hereunder has views similar

>to some of our self reliant farmers. Our small farmer know that

>our government is committed to supporting big business against

>small farmers.

>

>Our government does help farmers. For the government Reliance, Mittel,

>Indian Tobacco, Monsanto and Syngentia subsidiaries are farmers in India

>deserving government largesse. Best wishes.

>Kisan Mehta Priya Salvi

>Prakruti and Save Bombay Committee

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>Navi Mumbai-400705.

>Mobile: 0091 9223448857 (Kisan Mehta)

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>kisansbc

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> " TradingPostPaul " <tradingpost

>Friday, July 20, 2007 10:27 PM

>[Livingontheland] INactivism - $90B farm welfare

>

>Thanks again, Ken. BUT there are those who lobby for more of

>the federal pie to come to small farm operations and sustainable growers.

>And they wait for it and pin their hopes on it instead of beginning

>sustainable practices where they are, right now. IMHO, fighting over who

>gets the tax money is the wrong strategy. We

>won't get it and we won't stop the Agribusiness Leviathan until

>enough people grow their own and buy local, and consumer

>demand falls and cripples the mega-farms and middlemen. Lobbying

>and protest are up against corrupt billion$. What little progress they think

>they've made politically comes with very long strings attached,

>and with money comes control. Control of our health and livelihoods.

>

>You could call this INactivism - refusing to support an unsustainable

>system we don't believe in. And consumer demand is the lifeblood

>of the system. It should die the death of a thousand cuts. Do we

>really want all the contaminated crap from China, or ADM or

>Cargill? The beauty of INactivism is we don't need mass protests,

>votes, or foundation grants to do it. We don't need anybody's permission,

>licenses or permits. We just need to get growing.

>

>This doesn't sound glamorous; it doesn't give anybody a chance to

>head some movement and be a big shot or plead for donations from

>a deep leather chair behind a big desk. But pulling my own carrots

>and garlic brings a strange sense of satisfaction - the simple pleasure

>of knowing you can actually feed yourself from the land you live on. And eat

>healtier for it. And save the cost of a fitness club ... do

>people really pay some company - some club - to let them exercise???

>

>paul tradingpost

>

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>On 7/20/2007 at 7:06 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>

>Each year, the U.S. government spends about $90 billion to ensure

>that its citizens have cheap food. This leads us to ask, " Who should

>get the $90 billion?

> >

>This Saturday at 9am Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson

>hosts John Keeling from the National Potato Council and Larry Mitchell from

>the American Corn Growers Association for a conversation about the 2007 Farm

>Bill.

> >

>Log on www.metrofarm.com to listen on your radio, computer

>or IPOD.

> >

>Topics include why governments subsidize agriculture; why 70%

>of U.S. >subsidies go to 10% of the country's farmers; and which farmers

>should get the money.

> >

>Question of the Week: Who should get our $90 billion?

> >

>http://farm.ewg.org/farm/index.php gives the names of farmers

>and corporations and how much welfare they received.

> >

> > Ken Hargesheimer

 

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