In article . com,
James wrote:

On Jul 16, 7:43 pm, Charlie wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:14:52 -0700, James
wrote:

So are you claiming YOU personally CAN feed yourself using just
organic techniques?

Yes. Not only myself, but my entire family. And I (anyone) could do
it on much less ground than you can possibly imagine.



It's not his point that ****ed me off unless you meant his point of
being rude. What point is it that you think ****ed me off? Of course
it's easy to miss a point reading crap from you guys since every one
of your posts includes insults and put downs. You mean you guy
actually have a point remotely related to the thread title? I assumed
you guy just like to be in a farting contest.

I didn't feel he was rude.......just matter of fact.

Obviously you do not read "every one" of our posts. Many of them are
quite polite, informative, and, on occasion, humourous.

The thread title was about Organic Farming.......that is what we are
discussing, no? With a side dish of manners.



Time for you guys to go back to basics and brush up on debating team
rules. You really can't expect people to take you seriously. Even if
you had any gems of wisdom people will probably skip you posts because
the very hi % of shit they have to shift though to get to anything
worthwhile.

Whether or not I am taken seriously depends upon one's mindset, and
perhaps one's intent. On issues that matter, I am deadly serious, and
this is one of them.

I never was on a debating team. Our small town school barely had
enough funds for a bathroom, let alone a debate team. That is why I am
just a pig-ignorant old auto-didactic, farting about in the ether of
The Usenet. A friend of mine referred me to Chaos Theory....butterfly
wings and all that......check it out. We do what we must.

If folks skip my posts, it is their loss, not mine. Voices crying in
the wilderness, you know. I am duty bound to point out ignorance, evil,
propaganda, lies, hate, bad food, bad music, poisoning of babies, and
all that funky stuff, no matter where I find it. Plus have a little
fun in the process.....poke about with sticks and turn over rocks, you
know, just to see what develops. Hell, even a blind pig can sometimes
find and acorn.

What I am finding is that the Usenet is spiraling towards the least
common denominator. Some of us take exception to that.

Stick around, we'll continue, if you desire
Charlie

Why don't you just tell us how little land you use to feed how many
people. My definition of feeding means everything including grain.
If you claim to feed yourself, I'm interpreting it to mean everything
from soup to nuts. I'll allow you to include in your calculations the
trade of your produce for cooking oil, fruits, and meat, eggs, butter,
etc. if you don't raise livestock. I allow that because your climate
might now support all plants used in our diet and it would be too
involved to press your own oil. I'll even allow you using the high
prices charged at your local farmer's market in your calculations.
Now can you still claim you feed yourselves. My hat off to you if you
can.

Of course some gardeners think they can feed many people just because
they are up to their ass in zuccini.

As for being rude. Take my word. You both are.
Actually we we talking about growing three time as much with organic
techniques as is grown with chem ferts, oh great decider. That's the
thread.
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Billy
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/