This, we said, was our life...

This, we said, was our life...
We were alone one night on a long road in Montana. This was in winter, a big night, far to the stars. We had hitched, my wife and I, and left our ride at a crossing to go on. Tired and cold--but brave--we trudged along. This, we said, was our life, watched over, allowed to go where we wanted. We said we'd come back some time when we got rich. We'd leave the others and find a night like this, whatever we had to give, and no matter how far, to be so happy again. - William Stafford "Once in the 40's"

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The system is ridiculous.

While researching GMO's today, I ran across a bill currently in Congress shortly called "the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009". In the House it's H.R. 875. In the Senate it is S. 425.

When searching the internet about this bill, a lot came up about the bill to "criminalize organic/local farming," and it is said to be mainly backed by Monsanto.

As angering as this is, I would really like to see the facts of this and decide for myself what this bill is trying to do, so I attempted to read the text of the proposed bill introduced into the House and Senate. I suggest you try doing the same just to experience how nearly impossible it is to get a grasp on what is going on.

This system is built so that 99% of society has no idea what is going on, has no way of doing anything about it other than choosing which powerful wealthy person to have the title, and we must put all our trust into the wealthiest folk of the world that they will govern unselfishly.

This is ridiculous to believe that the wealthiest folk of the world are unselfish. There's an oxymoron.

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