[PEN-L:28200] Re: Re: WSJ reviews Marx 101

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Murray wrote:
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> Trade off: if you we're a farm worker, would you 'prefer' being
> poisoned with chemicals and have the fruits of your labor
> deceptively called food; or would you prefer a marginal increase in
> stooping to avoid being poisoned and have the fruits of your labor
> called food?

> Yes in the bright shining future those "choices" won't need to be
> made at all because ecologies of scale and mechanization will over
> take the current agricultural paradigm and make farm labor less
> harmful to workers, but why don't we call organic food food and what
> we currently call food, poisoned food?
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> The idea that the protestors don't give a shit about the oppressed
> is just stupid holier than thou drivel.
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> Ian

I've been a farm worker -- and stoop labor is killing. It's been 60
years, and I can still remember as one of the most vived (hatefully so)
experiences of my life an afternoon spent picking cucumbers. The field
was a poor one, the cucumber crop merely a fill-in for that year, and
the sparse number forced continual bending, straightening, bending,
straightening. My back hurts just thinking of it.

Carrol

Carrol