hello bob - was that a serious inquiry? regarding how your choice in vegetables couldn't possibly be political? i'm going to assume it was, just for argument sake.
i believe the question involved zucchini and summer squash? let's see, just off the top of my head, if those vegetables are picked by migrant workers, whose poverty is a necessary evil in order to keep those crops coming in to load the shelves of your local stop and shop, because what spoiled american is going to want to wander the countryside, sleeping in the backs of trucks or the outbuildings in some barnyard for a few pennies...and what about those shelves, loaded by some minimum waged, illegal alien whose impovershment is also ABSOLUTELY necessary to maintaining the lifestyle that is represented by those ALL THAT FOOD!! (don't you ever walk down a grocery store aisle and marvel at all the choice? don't you think 80 or 90 percent of the rest of the world's population would be STUNNED by just one of our grocery stores?) because, again, what self respecting, sensible white bread american would want work at stop and shop, stocking the vegetable bins??? because to pay those people a living wage might cause the price of those squash and those zucchini to rise, and before you know it, some republican candidate would run on the "save our squash" ticket... or, another scenario, perhaps those squash and those zucchini were grown on a farm that has been in the same family for 100 years, who are being squeezed out by some farming franchise conglomerate whose tax breaks and shelters, make it possible for them to grow 10 times as much for 1/2 the price per bushel, driving the family farmer into selling off his land and auctioning off his equipment to pay the banks who loaned him the money he needed to buy the seeds... on and on and on. i think that is what colin meant. and debra. (if i may be so bold.) and i agree with them absolutely. everything is political. everything. even your delicious sounding meal... ric
