JANUARY 22, 2006
Farmers
are the future. Farmers in touch with the land are the primary indicator industry for a culture. Whenever a farmer speaks someone should be recording their message. When a farmer who relies on the natural
rhythms of nature and farms sustainably speaks, everyone should listen carefully.
Listening to farmers talk about farming is enlightening, but what I am really hearing is that the cry of the farmer is getting louder and louder each year, as their plight becomes more dramatic. Big business is replacing the small practitioner.
I listened to two fisherman talk about the loss of community as the fish stocks dwindle and fishing becomes less and less desirable as a profession. Mining the seas, pollution, and technologically is killing an industry and a way of life.
Farmers are telling the same story. If we lose the fisherman and the farmers we are toast; as my daughter would say. We have no future if we have no food. Food procurers through generations have been simple farm and fisher folk. This is all changing, and rapidly.
Government priority number one should not be more food produced in a cheap manner, but more nutritious food produced sustainably. Preservation of these two endangered species fisherman and farmers should be priority number one.
Legislation and education must focus directly on sustaining those that sustain life.
Period, end of journal entry today! Adopt a farmer or a fisherman and support their livelihood.
--Peter