How are people who can not afford to be land owners supposed to grow seeds?
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Oh I know. I see it weekly! I see what FREE money cards they use. I make it MY BUSINESS to see being as though I am supporting that person. Thank you!
Snack cakes, sodas and chips are not a necessity in life. It's a WANT! I'm just saying.
I volunteer yearly AND I adopt 2 families each year (Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas) and donate an entire meal to them. Thank you!
A lot of them use their free food cards to buy someone a double amount of groceries for a cash exchange. With which(the cash) they take to the local crack distributor/or beer joint for a good feeling for a short time. This happens more often than you think too. They don't use them for food, these people don't eat they get HIGH.
So put that in a pipe and smoke on it for a while,
So fire away at me, got my drawers down a ready here, LOL you can't hurt me with words esp through a screen.
Jeff
A lot of them use their free food cards to buy someone a double amount of groceries for a cash exchange. With which(the cash) they take to the local crack distributor/or beer joint for a good feeling for a short time. This happens more often than you think too. They don't use them for food, these people don't eat they get HIGH.
So put that in a pipe and smoke on it for a while,
So fire away at me, got my drawers down a ready here, LOL you can't hurt me with words esp through a screen.
Jeff
Hi Jeff!!!!!!!!!!! My LOUISIANA La-yer friend!!!!!
I'm glad that you know what I'm talking about. Not only that, they buy the groceries and turn around and cook the food and have a plate lunch sale and keep the cash. Who knew?
Hi Jeff!!!!!!!!!!! My LOUISIANA La-yer friend!!!!!I'm glad that you know what I'm talking about.
Not only that, they buy the groceries and turn around and cook the food and have a plate lunch sale and keep the cash. Who knew?
Kinda about the same thing as using a credit card and go buy a bunch of stuff and then turn around and HOCK it for cash, this is highly illegal you can go to prison for this action whats the diff. with doing the same with a free food card. Just sayin' ever heard this one before wake up America.
Jeff
I understand how indoor gardening works - I have a fully functioning aquaponics system that takes up a full room in my house. It wasn't expensive because I built everything myself but this required that I own power tools and that I have a vehicle to get the raw materials home, two things that are not afforded by a lot of folks. It also caused my power bill to double and does take up space. Balconies and huge windows like the ones seen in those videos are an urban luxury in my neighborhood.
At the moment I am not producing anywhere even close to being able to regularly feed two people, let alone a family of four. I have expendable income and it is a hobby. No one in any of those videos looked like they were living off of that food. While I really love this idea in theory and it is something I personally practice, I am not sure how practical this really is.
Perhaps local programs where renters may have real yards? This does not happen in the city. Poor people do not have yards. For those that do in the country it could be kind of awesome. But, I do not see this as having any effect on urban poverty. Or, making urban land available, which unfortunately is also expensive and has proven a bit difficult in the past.
After the LA riots a big chunk of public, urban land was donated out to local people to grow their own food and the South Central Farmers Cooperative was born, creating a 14 acre organic farm that was completely publicly run by the local people, mostly poor and minority. They farmed for 14 years but then the city decided the land was too valuable and that they had to sell it to developers. Despite fundraising and city activism and a sit in, they sold the land and the new owner refused to lease it to the farmers, even when they offered to pay. It's condos or something now. This caused a lot of very angry people on both sides. I believe the co-op bought land in bakersfield but its really far from the city - they still sell in the urban farmers markets. It is really interesting to think about though.
http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/
I think that if we are trying to make a system that encompasses a wide and diverse group of people it is important not to turn those people into caricatures - these are real, multi-dimensional people and they are not all the same. One person you saw at the grocery store or on TV does not represent everyone.
At the moment I am not producing anywhere even close to being able to regularly feed two people, let alone a family of four. I have expendable income and it is a hobby. No one in any of those videos looked like they were living off of that food. While I really love this idea in theory and it is something I personally practice, I am not sure how practical this really is.
Perhaps local programs where renters may have real yards? This does not happen in the city. Poor people do not have yards. For those that do in the country it could be kind of awesome. But, I do not see this as having any effect on urban poverty. Or, making urban land available, which unfortunately is also expensive and has proven a bit difficult in the past.
After the LA riots a big chunk of public, urban land was donated out to local people to grow their own food and the South Central Farmers Cooperative was born, creating a 14 acre organic farm that was completely publicly run by the local people, mostly poor and minority. They farmed for 14 years but then the city decided the land was too valuable and that they had to sell it to developers. Despite fundraising and city activism and a sit in, they sold the land and the new owner refused to lease it to the farmers, even when they offered to pay. It's condos or something now. This caused a lot of very angry people on both sides. I believe the co-op bought land in bakersfield but its really far from the city - they still sell in the urban farmers markets. It is really interesting to think about though.
http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/
I think that if we are trying to make a system that encompasses a wide and diverse group of people it is important not to turn those people into caricatures - these are real, multi-dimensional people and they are not all the same. One person you saw at the grocery store or on TV does not represent everyone.
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"A lot of them" ? What is your source for this information?A lot of them use their free food cards to buy someone a double amount of groceries for a cash exchange. With which(the cash) they take to the local crack distributor/or beer joint for a good feeling for a short time. This happens more often than you think too. They don't use them for food, these people don't eat they get HIGH.
So put that in a pipe and smoke on it for a while,and yes I too have witnessed this on way more than one occasion, too. So I'm not just making up a tale here.
So fire away at me, got my drawers down a ready here, LOL you can't hurt me with words esp through a screen.
Jeff
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