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**vintagevixen**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Dont need no f*ckin farms in this day and age. Cant grow soda pop, margarine and pop tarts on a farm anyways..assholes.

vv

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 78866 04-28-2012 07:56 AM

I have a friend that grows dental floss up in montana

**mstra** lop guest User ID: 93266 04-28-2012 07:36 PM

Let the stupid grow the food.

http://thenewagriculture.blogspot.com/20...-food.html

**Gracie**

mstra Wrote:

Let the stupid grow the food.

http://thenewagriculture.blogspot.com/20...-food.html

Everyone should read mstra's essay on his blog. This was a fantastic piece of sattire. I'm saving it! Cheer

One of my favorite parts...and scariest.

excerpt:
Back in the 1800s many state governments had created something called “agricultural colleges” and they still existed up ‘til the mid-1900s, more or less as a place where the farm kids smart enough to read and write but not bright enough for real colleges could go and get degrees in cow science or plow theory or something. Around 1950 the big chemical, fertilizer, and seed corporations saw an opportunity there and were kind enough to fund whole new programs where those students destined to return to farming could be educated in how to farm more efficiently using pesticides, weed killers, concentrated chemical fertilizers and hybrid crops. Thus the corporations were able to make the best out of an unfortunate situation: the semi-intelligent farm kids could at least be trained to buy and use the right things when they went back to the farm, and they could pretend that they were part of the important industrial economy and not just dumb farmers.