tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post593137669632500648..comments2023-10-31T11:10:10.448+01:00Comments on WASHING WITHOUT GETTING WET: ON THE DOWNWARD SLOPEGeorghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-33665703432977032462010-02-17T09:19:36.539+01:002010-02-17T09:19:36.539+01:00For Exseno, Id and Vincent
Exseno
Frankly, I don&...For Exseno, Id and Vincent<br /><br />Exseno<br />Frankly, I don't know what should be done. Who knows, maybe quitting farming would be the best solution if he finds a decent job somehow.<br /><br />Id it is<br />You are mentioning outsourcing. We have the same problems over here. Right now, it is difficult sometimes to find goods not made PRC. Frequently I buy things made here hoping they might be of better quality than the cheap Chinese stuff.<br /><br />This talking about living in a service society is just empty chattering and blubbering. We are always surrounded by things or goods that have to be made. And I think we should do it ourselves but in good quality. Service is a plus nothing else, nothing more. <br /><br />Vincent<br />Content que tu aimes. Comment j'ai trouvé Vincent Rodde? : Google avec "Salers+photo". Quant aux pâturages, bien sûr mon ami a des champs et les vaches sont dessus. Mais je crois il n'a pas assez de champs pour le nombre de bétail et il ne peut pas diminuer s'il veut vivre. C'est compliqué et particulièrement pour quelqu'un qui est obligé de louer la majorité des champs.<br /><br />GeorgGeorghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-28901949075591522302010-02-15T13:49:45.523+01:002010-02-15T13:49:45.523+01:00salut George!
voici un bel article
merci d'avo...salut George!<br />voici un bel article<br />merci d'avoir posté le site de Vincent RODDE qui est un artiste en la matière. <br />As tu trouvé ce site chez moi ou l'as tu trouvé par hasard? <br /><br />Ce que je déplore, mais on en parlé de vive voix c'est cette agriculture moderne qui n'a rien à faire dans les zones de montagne.<br />le pâturage était de tradition autre fois et cette culture du maïs est lamentable.<br />Quand tu vois ces agriculteurs obligés d'acheter du fourrage dans d'autres départements alors que chez nous l'herbe est la meilleure, c'est à pleurer. <br /><br />de toutes façons les carottes sont cuites. <br />A plus georg! <br />bises à Elisabeth.vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04239218866699012967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-57145596684960374302010-02-12T16:15:24.397+01:002010-02-12T16:15:24.397+01:00Society changes fast to accommodate the needs of a...Society changes fast to accommodate the needs of an over populous planet, and what you so poignantly cite is collateral damage of this accommodation. <br />Manufacturing in the US disappeared some three decades ago to make way for the service industry and there were thousands who were left with no means to put food on the table for their loved ones! Dues to outsourcing the US is again confronted with an accommodation, and some section of society will have to pay a price. The bottom line is that the accommodation is always for the greater number and people such as Pierre unfortunately belong to the smaller group.<br />An eye opening post Georg!Id it ishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10933156607975500727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-89704233351430843732010-02-12T02:45:25.636+01:002010-02-12T02:45:25.636+01:00That is so heart breaking.
And yet things like ...That is so heart breaking. <br /> And yet things like this seem to be happening all over in other countries as well. Seems to me the government should step in and help in this kind of situation. <br /><br />But all of the work go's to the big company's and the small business men go under. Somehow they should be able to get some help.<br /><br />Such a shame! It's so wrong.EXSENOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13439855607574342872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-22312948944069677022010-02-10T16:21:05.287+01:002010-02-10T16:21:05.287+01:00To Sorrow,
You are probably right: the trend seem...To Sorrow,<br /><br />You are probably right: the trend seems to go towards big farming, pocketing big subsidies and doling out cheep but not impeccable foodstuffs. <br /><br />As far as tendencies go, we are lagging 10 to 15 years behind the USA. Right now, the number of overweighties grow and grow. However, carrots are still cheap. Yesterday, my wife bought 4 kg (about 9 pounds) of carrots for about 4 Euro (about 6 Dollar).<br /><br />But in this case we have the same problem: those carrots are too cheap and the veg growers face financial "belly up". It is unsustainable. <br /><br />Thanks for answering and giving those prices. It is always good to be able to compare.<br /><br />GeorgGeorghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-16901944707663054452010-02-09T05:43:38.903+01:002010-02-09T05:43:38.903+01:00Some day Georg, all the food will be produced by t...Some day Georg, all the food will be produced by the "big people", and there will be no little farmers working hard. perhaps food will be a pill? <br />~shrug~<br />No one cares what it costs to produce the food. All they want is it cheap, so that they can eat. In america we have terrible health problems because a package of carrots costs 3.00$, but a greasy hambuger costs .99 cents. No one can figure this, and I am scratching my head! <br />Viva` the food revolution!<br />A thoughtful post as always Georg!Sorrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058557348955007784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-81599063177307109462010-02-07T10:03:26.655+01:002010-02-07T10:03:26.655+01:00To Berenice,
So are so terribly right. Before com...To Berenice,<br /><br />So are so terribly right. Before coming to live here, I had only foggy ideas what it means to work the land.<br /><br />As to suicide, there was one in this village, some days ago. And for the above reasons.........<br /><br />As to my posting, well, the last couple of months I got addicted to wood working, routing and planing.<br />Suddenly I did not have enough drive to blog. <br /><br />GeorgGeorghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-27892952304305335112010-02-07T03:25:56.535+01:002010-02-07T03:25:56.535+01:00oh herr Georg, what a sad and yet interesting post...oh herr Georg, what a sad and yet interesting post, you are so right on the call for emergencies, it seems that we humans re-act instead of planning ahead or prevent... as you mentioned about Haiti, there were starving there before the earthquake but it took a massive event to pay some attention... and yet the everyday tragedies, the ones that happen slower, as in the case of the farmers, as i can read, all over the world, are left unattended, unsolved...<br /><br />and as much as we can thank technology in some fields, it seems that it hurts us so much in other cases, the prices of milk and dairy i am sure have declined because big companies have "industrialized" it, putting animals through suffering in order to produce more... in this process of mechanization of everything & the war of prices, we all suffer, farmers, animals, and even the final consumers, us, who end-up drinking altered milk by pesticides, hormones, etc... what a sad case, and even more on the suicides... when you grow up in a city like me, we even tend to fantasize that the life in the country is all calm, slow, and nice, wandering with animals along the hills... when reality is so afar from it... it's good to read you again herr Georg, in spite of being with such a touchy post...<br /><br />prost, and wishing things can change for the farmers who feeds us all over the worldbereweberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04212294373903204510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-55948521252472517322010-02-06T09:55:47.214+01:002010-02-06T09:55:47.214+01:00Thanks for commenting, Hiva and Rati.
To Hiva
Did...Thanks for commenting, Hiva and Rati.<br /><br />To Hiva<br />Didn't know there is rice planting in Iran. I thought they were mostly eating bread, those flat chapaties I saw in Tehran and elsewhere. <br />Leaving the village to work in town means you become an unskilled laborer. Starting at the bottom.<br /><br />To Rati<br />Yes, I have heard of these Indian peasants committing suicide. And I forgot to tell, a fortnight ago a peasant here in this village did the same. <br /><br />As far as I can see, we simply do not pay enough for food. Or, the other way round, those farmers should get more money for what they produce. Presently, the supermarkets make the profits not the farmers. <br /><br />GeorgGeorghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-81529062640432185952010-02-06T08:44:10.087+01:002010-02-06T08:44:10.087+01:00It is amazing Georg...how different our two countr...It is amazing Georg...how different our two countries are and yet we are beseiged by smilar problems.....<br />You may have heard of poor farmers commiting suicide in India for exactly the same reasons u cite...<br /><br />Ofcourse the farmers here are really poor, at or below subsistence level, illiterate and certainly no education.<br /><br />This daily calamity does not attract or create megabytes or TRPs...therefore is forgotten and ignored....u see even NGOs need funds....at the end of the day it is all about the money....Rati Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552255024253695138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646820528696373193.post-70068144268697660692010-02-05T20:52:05.279+01:002010-02-05T20:52:05.279+01:00Hi George,
The cows looks very healthy :)). It...Hi George,<br /><br />The cows looks very healthy :)). It's sad to here these farmers are going under debt. I know for many Iranian farmers, it's getting harder every year to make profit. <br />As you said it's a tough job. I know younger generation farmers become less patient and come to cities for easier career with more money. In Northern Iran most of the farmers are planting rice and I know it's really tough from beginning to the end that they sell their crops. some years that rain is not enough or sun doesn't shine on time they really suffers.. They are like a foundation of the society I hope things get better for them.Hivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02571629840093109900noreply@blogger.com