PEN-L,
Destroying peaches while many go without food says volumes about the system,
no? People can understand this failure of capitalism even if they've been
brainwashed to equate Marxism with murder.
Seth Sandronsky
Week in Review
By Mark Glover
Bee Staff Writer
(Published July 30, 2000)
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A week ago Friday The White House, over the signature of Al Gore, announced
that the administration would buy something like 1.2 million cases of pears --
over-supply. The pear farmers weren't getting a high enough price to even pick
the pears. The govt. will distribute the pears to schools,
That seems a much better solution than bulldozing peach trees. A program similar to
the pear program for peaches would make more sense. I recall with gratitude that as
a poor student in Eugene Oregon my family had access to a program that distributed
all kinds of surplus products: canned meat,
At 08:48 AM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
A week ago Friday The White House, over the signature of Al Gore, announced
that the administration would buy something like 1.2 million cases of pears --
over-supply. The pear farmers weren't getting a high enough price to even
pick
the pears. The govt.
I studies Ag. Econ at Berkeley. The people there and at Davis used to be expert in the
economics of grading produce. They would figure out what is the minimum size of an
olive or a peach to optimize returns for the agribiz types. Much of the early work in
econometrics came out of this work.
