This South Korean farmer took his life because there's was no place
for his farming way of life. And that not only happens in Korea but
even in the heartland of America. Regrettably the world is becoming a
factory...

What's the solution?

Poll taking place at...

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread...threadid=34349

Farming Is Korean's Life and He Ends It in Despair
By JAMES BROOKE

JANGSU, South Korea, Sept. 15 - Before Lee Kyung Hae left for Mexico
on his final mission to defend South Korean farmers, he climbed a hill
behind his old apple orchard here. In the quiet solitude of his former
farm, he cleaned up around his wife's tomb.

"He cut all the grass before departing," Lee Kyang Ja, his older
sister, said with surprise today, coming upon the site after climbing
a dirt road behind the farm. On Wednesday in Cancun, Mexico, Mr. Lee,
a 55-year-old farm union leader, scaled a barricade outside a meeting
of the World Trade Organization and then fatally plunged his old Swiss
Army knife into his heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/i...sia/16FARM.html

AMERICA'S HEARTLAND BECOMES A FACTORY

Source: book 'Fast Food Nation,' by Eric Schlosser

(The emphasis in capital letter is mine)

Over the last twenty-five years, Idaho has lost about half of its
potato farmers. During the same period, the amount of land devoted to
potatoes has increased. Family farms are giving way to corporate farms
that stretch for thousands of acres. These immense corporate farms are
divided into smaller holdings for administrative purposes, and farmers
who've been driven off the land are often hired to manage them. The
patterns of land ownership in the American West more and more resemble
those of rural England. "We've come full circle," says Paul Patterson.
"You increasingly find two classes of people in rural Idaho: the
people who run the farms and the people who own them."

Moulton [a staff member of the Potato Growers of Idaho] thinks some
sort of COOPERATIVE, an organization to coordinate marketing and
production levels, may be the last hope for Idaho's potato farmers...
"Some of them are independent to the point of poverty," he says.

Since the end of World War II, farmers in the US have been persuaded
to adopt one new technology after another, hoping to improve their
yields, reduce their costs, and outsell their neighbors. By embracing
this industrial model of agriculture --one that focuses narrowly on
the level of inputs and outputs, that encourages specialization in
just one crop, that relies heavily on chemical fertilizers,
pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, advanced harvesting and irrigation
equipment-- American farmers have become the most productive farmers
on earth. Every increase in productivity, however, has driven more
American farmers off the land. And it has left those who remain
beholden to the companies that supply the inputs and the processors
that buy the outputs.

The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the US is now about
three times higher than the national average. The issue briefly
received attention during the 1980s farm crisis, but has been pretty
much ignored ever since. Meahwhile, across rural America, a slow and
steady death toll mounts. As the rancher's traditional way of life is
distroyed, so are many beliefs that go with it. The code of the
rancher could hardly could hardly be more out of step with America's
state of mind. As Osha Gray Davidson observes in his book 'Broken
Heartland,' "To fail generations of relatives... to see yourself as
the weak link in a strong chain... is a terrible, and for some,
unbearable burden."

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This South Korean farmer took his life because there's was no place
for his farming way of life. And that not only happens in Korea but
even in the heartland of America. Regrettably the world is becoming a
factory...

What's the solution?

Deny the Hillarys the "right" to market more money quarterly in the
wholesale and retail price of food and fiber. To comply with Money Gods
demand. To measure and maintain the strength and growth of this unaffordable
economy.

www.cladatps.org

Poll taking place at...


http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread...threadid=34349

Farming Is Korean's Life and He Ends It in Despair
By JAMES BROOKE

JANGSU, South Korea, Sept. 15 - Before Lee Kyung Hae left for Mexico
on his final mission to defend South Korean farmers, he climbed a hill
behind his old apple orchard here. In the quiet solitude of his former
farm, he cleaned up around his wife's tomb.

"He cut all the grass before departing," Lee Kyang Ja, his older
sister, said with surprise today, coming upon the site after climbing
a dirt road behind the farm. On Wednesday in Cancun, Mexico, Mr. Lee,
a 55-year-old farm union leader, scaled a barricade outside a meeting
of the World Trade Organization and then fatally plunged his old Swiss
Army knife into his heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/i...sia/16FARM.html

AMERICA'S HEARTLAND BECOMES A FACTORY

Source: book 'Fast Food Nation,' by Eric Schlosser

(The emphasis in capital letter is mine)

Over the last twenty-five years, Idaho has lost about half of its
potato farmers. During the same period, the amount of land devoted to
potatoes has increased. Family farms are giving way to corporate farms
that stretch for thousands of acres. These immense corporate farms are
divided into smaller holdings for administrative purposes, and farmers
who've been driven off the land are often hired to manage them. The
patterns of land ownership in the American West more and more resemble
those of rural England. "We've come full circle," says Paul Patterson.
"You increasingly find two classes of people in rural Idaho: the
people who run the farms and the people who own them."

Moulton [a staff member of the Potato Growers of Idaho] thinks some
sort of COOPERATIVE, an organization to coordinate marketing and
production levels, may be the last hope for Idaho's potato farmers...
"Some of them are independent to the point of poverty," he says.

Since the end of World War II, farmers in the US have been persuaded
to adopt one new technology after another, hoping to improve their
yields, reduce their costs, and outsell their neighbors. By embracing
this industrial model of agriculture --one that focuses narrowly on
the level of inputs and outputs, that encourages specialization in
just one crop, that relies heavily on chemical fertilizers,
pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, advanced harvesting and irrigation
equipment-- American farmers have become the most productive farmers
on earth. Every increase in productivity, however, has driven more
American farmers off the land. And it has left those who remain
beholden to the companies that supply the inputs and the processors
that buy the outputs.

The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the US is now about
three times higher than the national average. The issue briefly
received attention during the 1980s farm crisis, but has been pretty
much ignored ever since. Meahwhile, across rural America, a slow and
steady death toll mounts. As the rancher's traditional way of life is
distroyed, so are many beliefs that go with it. The code of the
rancher could hardly could hardly be more out of step with America's
state of mind. As Osha Gray Davidson observes in his book 'Broken
Heartland,' "To fail generations of relatives... to see yourself as
the weak link in a strong chain... is a terrible, and for some,
unbearable burden."

http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote


__________________
"My struggle is not against the puppet, but against the puppeteer"