On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:45:04 -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Maybe so. But please allow me to suggest you spend a little more
>> time talking to farmers and commodity traders and a little less
>> time listening to people several steps removed from commodity
>> production. You might learn something.
>Ah, that's what it always comes down to: "I'm right and your wrong,
>because I know where you get your information."
I'm sorry to learn that hat's how you understood my suggestion.
>Well, I'm a member of Canadian Organic Growers, and attend monthly
>meetings, seminars, and classes, and have been working on an area
>farm plan with others in our community, with the goal of making our
>island community self-sufficient in food within ten years. But I
>guess I'm talking to the wrong farmers, then, because they don't seem
>to be saying the same things YOUR farmer friends are saying.
>We have a basic difference, Barry, one which we share with Moose: you
>believe in commodities, I believe in localization. That's why I say
>we must "agree to disagree." I don't try to make you look stupid.
>Please give me the same respect.
>:::: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum
>tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000
>vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
>:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AP35>
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Bean & Bean Cotton Company
Peach Orchard, MO
www.beancotton.com
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