-Caveat Lector-
The days of the family farm are numbered. Here in North Dakota, people
who have lived on the land for generations are losing their land because
of the machinations of Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland
Some of the little rural communities are now ghost towns... and it has
-Caveat Lector-
to the part about
>In 1992, susbsidies to agriculture amounted to $29 billion, more than was
spent on AFDC. 11 <
Look at who actually gets those susbsidies,
very seldom is it the individual farmer.
The Pesticide companies, herbicide companies -
you get the picture?
Piper
Willi
-Caveat Lector-
Myth
"To the average man on the street, to say someone is poor implies that he
is malnourished, poorly clothed, and lives in filthy, dilapaditated, and
overcrowded housing. In reality there is little material poverty in the
U.S. in the sense generally understood by the public."
