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El Juno (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eljuno) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank,@ 2006-06-26 10:58:00 |
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Farming Pagans vs. Subsidies vs. Rain vs. Drought
On Nonfluffypagans, MzWyndi makes a plea...
An open letter
Dear Universe, Themselves, and Whomever it May Concern:
The winter wheat is pretty much ready to be harvested in most of the US. The next couple of weeks are sort of crucial to all those folks who still have wheat TO harvest, after the nasty drought-followed-by-floods in some areas. As it is, the status of this year's wheat harvest is that there's probably not enough to meet demand... and prices of wheat are at an all-time high.
In short: It would be a good thing if we had a fair stretch of weather until the moon is full. It really is a much better world when we have bread, no matter what those carb-haters say.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation,
The Farming Pagans
However, ashley_y doesn't like this very much...
Dear Farming Pagans of America
As one of the hardworking folks who pay for the big handouts you receive from the government just for being a farmer, I find I don't have a lot of spare energy left over to help you with your concerns. Inevitably I find my sympathies drawn more towards wheat producers of the third world, who receive not one penny of subsidies from their governments yet must compete with artificially cheap American wheat. They would no doubt welcome the higher prices, and so do I pending the elimination of subsidies altogether.
Go boil your heads,
Ashley
Insert the better part of a page of argument about subsidies vs. farming vs. the US vs. the Third World.
On Nonfluffypagans, MzWyndi makes a plea...
An open letter
Dear Universe, Themselves, and Whomever it May Concern:
The winter wheat is pretty much ready to be harvested in most of the US. The next couple of weeks are sort of crucial to all those folks who still have wheat TO harvest, after the nasty drought-followed-by-floods in some areas. As it is, the status of this year's wheat harvest is that there's probably not enough to meet demand... and prices of wheat are at an all-time high.
In short: It would be a good thing if we had a fair stretch of weather until the moon is full. It really is a much better world when we have bread, no matter what those carb-haters say.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation,
The Farming Pagans
However, ashley_y doesn't like this very much...
Dear Farming Pagans of America
As one of the hardworking folks who pay for the big handouts you receive from the government just for being a farmer, I find I don't have a lot of spare energy left over to help you with your concerns. Inevitably I find my sympathies drawn more towards wheat producers of the third world, who receive not one penny of subsidies from their governments yet must compete with artificially cheap American wheat. They would no doubt welcome the higher prices, and so do I pending the elimination of subsidies altogether.
Go boil your heads,
Ashley
Insert the better part of a page of argument about subsidies vs. farming vs. the US vs. the Third World.
