Re: Salatin's comment on Ron POLITICS RELIGION

[Guest guest]

If you haven't read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Pollan I

recommend it highly. Pollan and myself both weren't impressed

by Salatin's statement that his chickens had no souls.

Guess that's the difference between farmers that fully respect the

lives they nurture, that nurture them and businessmen.

Wanita

>

> This is so cool! Salatin is a fulltime farmer in Virginia's

Shenandoah

> Valley. He is famous in organic farming circles. He runs Polyface

farm -

> his link is here:

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> http://www.polyfacefarms.com/schedule.aspx

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> Salatin says:

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> " I've never felt as comfortable with a Presidential candidate as I

do this

> year with Ron . Generally the conservatives worship Wall Street, the

> military industrial complex, and American empire building around the

world.

> The liberals worship government agencies, government solutions, and

never

> saw a tax they didn't like or a baby worth saving. So where does a

guy turn

> who wants small government, no subsidies, pro-life, no corporate

welfare,

> and a hoe-your-own-garden military? Finally we have a candidate: Ron

.

> " The reason the mainstream can't handle him is because he doesn't

fit the

> stereotypes. And therein lies his strength. As a Christian libertarian

> environmentalist capitalist, Ron embodies the reasonable

approach to

> thorny issues. He would rein in the globalists by unleashing grass roots

> entrepreneurs. That's true free marketing, not pseudo free marketing via

> corporate welfarism and criminalizing small business. He thinks we

should be

> able to choose what to eat and how to educate rather than big brother

> government being the only credible approval source.

>

> " Rather than squandering the nation's treasury and goodwill to insure

> cheap oil, he would unfetter backyard tinkerers whose

100-mile-per-gallon

> carburetors and cottage-sized alternative fuel prototypes could make the

> U.S. energy independent. He understands that the real answers do not

come

> from the top down, but always come from the bottom up. And that is

why he

> often casts the solitary opposition vote in Congress. Bless him. "

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> Nanette

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