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In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
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Site Admin  Joined: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:59 am Posts: 6532 Location: Friendswood, TX 
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 In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers EmergesCORVALLIS, Ore. — For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming.
After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former federal secretary of agriculture who was known for saying, “Get big or get out.” But several weeks before his grandfather died, Mr. Jones broached the subject. His grandfather surprised him. “You have to fix what Earl and I messed up,” Mr. Jones said his grandfather told him.  snip Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06farmers.html?src=me&ref=homepage _________________ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - FDR |
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Site Admin  Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:54 am Posts: 4952 Location: Canada
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 Re: In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers EmergesToo bad companies like Monsatan (Thx Freak) are way too big to stop now
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