Agriculture: Some Corporations discriminate against people.

[Trillo]

It may seem like a little matter to some folks, but the ways in which corporations discriminate against "we the people" are many and varied.

I've been an organic agriculture enthusiast since before it was the hip thing to be. I'm not certified, as I limit my organics to my own yard, and am not involved in an agricultural business, except, as many of us are, as a consumer. I'm also not a organic agriculture purist, in the sense that I will use sparing amounts of synthetic fertilizers from time to time.

Anyway, pH of soil is a very critical, and also low-level (important), soil classification. In order to decrease the soil pH, which builds up on the alkaline side here in Southern California due to the alkalinity of water supplied by the water municipality, I often use dry gypsum. It's not the gypsum that's the important ingredient, the gypsum is combined with about 12-15% sulfur, as it is mined out of the ground bound up in some sort of molecular matrix. Applying sulfur will also lower the pH of soil, but it's more concentrated, and doesn't in any case supply calcium. For me, the white and powdered rock typically referred to as gypsum is easier to apply and handle, but I'm using it mostly for its sulfur, and not its calcium, content.

Both phosphorus acid, and phosphoric acid also will lower soil pH, as will other acids, and these ingredients, while expensive, if they're applied correctly, not only lower pH, but also supply phosphorous, a macro nutrient required by plants. It occurred to me, based upon a phone conversation with a biological merchant, that humic acid would also do the trick. Humic acid is related to "humus", a critical word well known by serious organic agriculture enthusiasts. So I started shopping for a bottle of humic acid, utilizing web-based searches.

I rarely see corporate's discrimination on such brazen display:

Source: http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=8811809

It is our policy to use commercially reasonable efforts to ship chemicals and other hazardous materials only to businesses located in non-residential areas. This involves a confirmation process that may increase delivery time on orders for such products from new customers or from existing customers with a new shipping address, and may require us to obtain additional information from such customers. Additional shipping restrictions and charges apply to orders for chemicals and other hazardous materials and such products cannot be shipped via international air freight.

I just wanted to get that off my chest. Nobody seems to give a damn if I have a pool and need some acid (I don't have a pool). Nobody cares if I have a bottle of 60% phosphorous acid in my garage, indeed, it's an important fertilizer even if it isn't organic.

It's always amazing to me how the commerce clause is used by corporate to block either legislation or regulation which might get in the way of profit, but it also seems to me it is simultaneously used to the detriment of human citizens (homosapiens), and seems to be to go against the broad brush "of, by, and for the people".

No, some corporations want corporate welfare from the people, but they won't even do business or sell to the people.

It seems even a people's entity such as the California government cannot get a loan from the the U.S. Treasury, not even the Federal Reserve, no, our state apparently needed to get one from a private entity by the name of JPMorgan. I guess it's all a great big tag game, and we're all it.