[Pil-pc-oceania] USA veg farmers fined for growing food on commodity cropland

[Robyn Williamson]

That's unreal Robyn!  All we can do I guess is thank our lucky stars  
little king johnnie didn't get re-elected or we could be facing  
something like this too.  Hopefully the stairway to kevin won't lead  
us there.

Robyn W

On 02/03/2008, at 10:38 AM, Robyn Francis wrote:

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> Just in case there's anyone still under the illusion the USA is a  
> democratic
> system the rest of the world should emulate, check out this  
> article. This is
> a horror story of just how far corporate giants and governments can  
> and will
> go to collude in exercising control of land and protection of agribiz
> commodity markets.
> Robyn
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> <http://www.nytimes.com/>
> Lawrence - In case you want to post this to Permaculture.  dylan
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html? 
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