Wot on and never, ever surrender
January 19 2007
So Woolworths out of the kindness of their little hearts want to hand over some of their customers' moolah for the so-called drought? Let's not forget that the supermarkets drive farmers to use unsustainable farming practices in the first place by promoting and encouraging excessive pesticide and fertiliser useage, monoculture farming, laser levelling, overseas imports, the disintegration of local farming communities across the planet, absurdly polluting transport methods across the oceans, the encouragement of GM farming practices, attempting to eliminate any local business.
In India farmers are now driven to massive water extraction and have desperately high suicide levels
because they cannot come up with the produce demanded by these mega-resource exploiters.
Our ''drought'' is largely a product of our failure to recognise that this continent cannot possibly sustain the sorts of farming things we do to it, four to six hundred 1000 Aborigines at the time of Cook's arrival give a rule-of-thumb indication of a crude ecological human to resources ratio - we are now seeing quite plainly the folly of our stupidity. Woolworths are very much at the forefront of this type of ecological denial. I say wot, and keep on wotting. We will wot them in Maleny, we will wot them in Mudgee,, we will wot them in the fields and in the streets and we shall never surrender.
Jeremy
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