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handmade34 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-16-09 12:26 PM
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9. power in numbers..
You are right. I am always in awe of the power of 'we the people' when we have a good idea and organize. There is so much change we could do if we decide and do it. I just bought 5 acres to get a small vegetable/fruit business going but don't know where to find people to help. I have made my own food, clothes, furniture, lip balm, shampoo, toothpaste, etc, etc,...

saw this quote in a Small Farmer's Journal years ago: "The problem with this beloved country of ours is that our neccesities have become too luxurious and our luxuries too neccesary." added to that our dependency on large corporations and we are in trouble.
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  -Are the large food manufacturers screwing us? Cyrano  Mar-16-09 11:26 AM   #0 
  - Yep. The gas costs reason is food industry's 9-11 beard  havocmom   Mar-16-09 11:31 AM   #1 
  - In my area  Andy823   Mar-16-09 12:03 PM   #3 
     - still pushing $2.95 here, where grain and cattle are grown  havocmom   Mar-16-09 10:12 PM   #18 
  - My BIL  Mojorabbit   Mar-16-09 11:48 AM   #2 
  - And this has what to do with the cost of toothpaste and toilet paper?  Cyrano   Mar-16-09 12:04 PM   #5 
     - Oh I agree  Mojorabbit   Mar-16-09 12:53 PM   #13 
  - Of Couuuuuuuuurse!  JHB   Mar-16-09 12:04 PM   #4 
  - Co-ops,  handmade34   Mar-16-09 12:06 PM   #6 
  - Rethink it, yes. But in a practical sense, change like this would take a decade of more.  Cyrano   Mar-16-09 12:15 PM   #7 
     - power in numbers..  handmade34   Mar-16-09 12:26 PM   #9 
  - It's not just the prices increasing, check the sizes  Frustratedlady   Mar-16-09 12:25 PM   #8 
  - Yep, this is definitely one of their more despicable tactics.  Cyrano   Mar-16-09 12:47 PM   #12 
  - It's their job to get as much money out of us as they can, for as little as possible  killbotfactory   Mar-16-09 12:35 PM   #10 
  - Just like oil, food has been artificially cheap for years  Ron Green   Mar-16-09 12:35 PM   #11 
  - Spot on  Auggie   Mar-16-09 12:58 PM   #14 
  - Some of it is that, some is continued speculation.  TheWraith   Mar-16-09 12:58 PM   #15 
  - Are large corporations screwing us?  dflprincess   Mar-16-09 01:11 PM   #16 
  - Have they ever NOT screwed us? n/t  Raineyb   Mar-16-09 01:14 PM   #17 
 

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