Comments on: And We Grow Fat Upon The Fruits of Their Labor

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:56:53 +0000

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By: sweetleaf

sweetleaf — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:11 +0000

i am like you nez, in that i can not stomach the ignorant comments of a few idiots that seem to attach to msm, so i don’t go there. they are always the same people and comments it seems. but like you, it never surprises me, which is truly unfortunate.

your story here, contains the essence of the harm that is our heritage in this country. food is an epitome of how oppression works in many of this country’s life’s avenues. i find capitalism to be but the means for, (some new words (to me) that keeping coming to my mind), for so much of what is the root of our troubles…oligarchy, plutocracy, aristocracy… it is the corporations, it is the elite few that somehow keep a majority struggling (untouchable goldman-sachs types, if you know what i mean).

it is a transfer of a bad vibration that i avoid, by going to my local health food store, farmers market, farmers, etc. to avoid the abuse done to people, our planet, the animals. bigger just isn’t better, and even the people working and shopping at these “health” food stores, have an energy that contributes to a better way…instead of the stress of a super store always challenging the good. pretty much anyway.

this is a country/world that has enough of everything for everyone…it just needs a different distribution that is moral and ethical, not so dollar profit orientated.

i guess that is pretty much a “duh” “ya think” as i state the obvious:), but greed is a tough battle.

By: nezua

nezua — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:38:17 +0000

I make it a habit not to read comment threads on anything to do with Mexican@s or Ch/Xican@s or immigration when possible! I’d live in a state of turmoil.

No, I haven’t read them. And though you didn’t ask, no—I’m not surprised to hear them. What ugliness, eh? Talk about a “tone” problem.

By: Janeiro

Janeiro — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:33:53 +0000

Have you read the comments over at ABC? Ridiculous. Basically, a good portion of the comments ask, “What’s wrong with (Chicano or Latino) children being exploited in child labor?” They make it seem as if been denied an education and adequate health care, exposed to dangerous chemicals, and living in crippling poverty is merely a character-building exercise. Naturally, little Dakota and Madison won’t be picking fruits anytime soon.

By: nezua

nezua — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:23:23 +0000

Yup…and I think we are separated from making our food, and seeing the larger connections between everything as part and parcel of what makes our system possible. Were were to address all these imbalances, it would change the shape of everything we know. That is, there is a resistance to positive change, always. We must provide the counter force.

By: msladydeborah

msladydeborah — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:33:43 +0000

This cycle seems to be never ending. Consumers often forget or ignore the fact that food products do not mjust magically appear in the the grocery store. Someone has to labor to get it from the fields to the market place. It often seems that too many people don’t realize that the workforce that is responsible for this task is often one that is held up as “the problem”. While bypassing the conditions that create the problems.