Re: What happened to farming pride?

Posted by zooeyhall on February 12, 2005 at 09:40:37 from (204.26.68.3):

In Reply to: What happened to farming pride? posted by Youngfarmerguy on February 10, 2005 at 21:54:54:

One of the problems is that the people of this country, unlike those in Europe, have never experienced food shortages. I think there are readers of this website who have heard of the extensive ag subsidies given to European farmers--subsidies much more than American farmers receive. Moreover, there is strong support for these subsidies and farmers in general from most of the European people. Europe has not experienced the consolidation and decline in ag that we have in this country.

Do other readers still remember the gas shortages of the 70's, and the shock that Americans experienced when being told "sorry---only five gallons of gas per person today" (if it was even available).

I sometimes wonder how some of these city people would react if someday, going into the grocery store, saw signs saying "limit only 1 gallon of milk and 2 loaves of bread per person per week".

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