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Old 26-05-2007, 12:18 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens
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Default Fear of Eating by Paul Krugman

On May 25, 2:19 pm, Bill Rose wrote:
In article .com,
told2b wrote:
On May 25, 12:36ïż½pm, Bill Rose wrote:
Earlier this month the administration named, you guessed it, a ³food
safety czar.² But the food safety crisis isnıt caused by the arrangement
of the boxes on the organization chart. Itıs caused by the dominance
within our government of a literally sickening ideology.

This does not belong here, but it was a good read.


This article does belong here because it is the very reason why so many
of us grow as much of our own food as we can. We have no faith in the
government to protect our health.


True, but it has nothing to do, in my mind, with liberals or
conservatives. I don't trust government, period. Put the liberals in
power and give them umpteen billions to protect our food supply and
they'll do better than the conservatives, but not good enough to trust
your life with.

Let's grow our own food, dig our own wells, purify our own drinking
water, compost our own waste, and maybe one day we'll wake up and
realize "what do we need the government for, anyway?"

Anyway, old Milt died, give the guy a break. He made mistakes, as do
we all. If the Republican politicians would really listen to the core
Libertarian philosophies and not just the parts they want to hear and/
or pay lip service to, things might not be so bad now.