Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fighting the Corporations Will

By Stan Cox, AlterNet. Posted June 23, 2008.

The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.

Excerpt:

To repair the broken system that supplies the bulk of the nation's diet will require Americans to step out of the garden and into the public arena. Beyond working to get a better Farm Bill passed five years from now, we have to work together to break the political choke-hold that agribusiness has on federal and state governments.

With land and wealth being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands (and with more prisoners than farmers in today's America) we have actually reached a point at which land reform is as necessary here as it is in any nation of Latin America or Asia. Only when we get more people back on the land, working to feed people and not Monsanto, will the system have a chance to work. Most home gardeners know that the root of the problem is political, but the agricultural establishment would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.

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