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Bill who putters · 28-05-2010, 08:00 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

In article ,
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Bill who putters wrote:

The work was
finished in 2009, and it "describes the ecological basis of food and
agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems,
and the policy reversals needed to democratize food systems."
LOL! Lordy, another one. "Why don't we get together and call
ourselves an 'Institute'" --Paul Simon.
One can't help wondering how much real good such "institutes"
that'd presume to tell the world what it "needs" could do in that same
world if they used their resources and efforts to actually DO SOMETHING
that might make some poor *******'s life a little less miserable or a
little more "sustainable" instead of promulgating yet another
"multimedia" propaganda broadsheet that accomplishes absolutely nothing
except to make a cadre of intellectual twits, mistaking "thinking"
writing and talking for actually _doing_, feel a little less guilty
about its lifestyle. I do not believe for one instant that a single
child will go to bed with a fuller tummy tonight, a year from now, or
five years from now as even an indirect result of the "efforts" of this
"Institute" or of a thousand others like it.
What the hell does the unrelenting stream of obsolete 19th-Century
"leveller" collectivist socio-economic propaganda in the ng have to do
with actual gardening, anyway? Isn't there a forum in which the
world-changers can get together to natter at each other about their
refined and superior sensibilities?

So in less than 3 hours you have pronounced judgement on a document
that you have not looked at.

I'm impressed with your physic abilities.

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?