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Authors, sign in!Everyday, more and more people their job. Homes get foreclosed upon. Cars get repossesed. Children listen to their parents talk about money problems. Times are tough.
I spoke to a woman in her late 80's the other day. She sadly said that today's economy is worse than it was in the Great Depression. Back then, she said, at least people could find jobs on farms. This, I realized, is true. Especially in Kansas, the wheat state, where towns have Wheat Festivals, which even features the Best Wheat Competition! Due to technology in farming, I think there is less of a need for farm workers. Due to the increase of importing food, our local farms are suffering, thus leading to a lack of possible jobs.
In this time, where people are "going green," why not go green by planting a crop?
I saw something on a TV special called Earth 2100 on ABC. It said that there is no way everyone on Earth could consume the same amount of meat, let alone, food that the United States. This is true NOW, and it's not even 2100. We have 81 years to go, and already our food sources are limited, and we've all seen those TV commercials for starving children - they always make me so sad, because you know life is really like that for some children. Meanwhile, in these great United States - we have children even as young as 10 being so over-weight that their doctors order cholesterol tests.
We can solve many problems by starting more farms, eating less and sharing the wealth. Because even if it is bad here, Americans still have more than other countries.
Published June 23, 2009 by Eden Fuson |
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