It's not even that the work pays a 'lot' less than it used to.
I planted trees for 6 years, quitting at one million.
The reason I quit was due to the Gov't making it "safe" to do, which made
doing it a lot harder and slower.
At 3 to 4 cents a tree, you have to plant thousands a day and spend
"nothing" to make it worth while.
My total expenses for a 6 month season was around $400 and pay was tax
free "seasonal ag".
Then, the insurance companies convinced land owners that people living on
their plantations would lead to injury lawsuits, even though no tree
planter had ever filed one.
The result was that everyone had to go live at a KOA [VERY expensive] or
put 14 people in a motel room, then commute for hours to get to the
planting site because civilization is nowhere near down miles of deeply
skitter rutted mud logging roads.
Mexicans don't seem to mind that...'hippies' do.
The beauty [and profit] of planting trees was the free primitive
lifestyle...living in the boonies where you work in an old beater pickup
truck with a camper shell. Drive [winch] in once, stay for a few weeks and
work 6 1/2 days per... pre-dawn, to can't see anymore... all winter long.
If we took a WHOLE day off, we'd get so stiff that it took another 3 days
to get moving again..then suddenly, the Gov't mandated taking a whole day
off to protect workers from "abuse"?...universally ignored by necessity.
Ode
Why would that bee racist?
I know white folks who used to pollinate corn. ["Tasseling"]
It used to be a big job to do after the tree planting and forest release
seasons, but now...
Mexicans work cheaper and plant the trees, man the brush saws and
pollinate the corn.
Ode
At 11:59 AM 2/21/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>That's rather racist, James.
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Holmes" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:43 AM
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>>That's why the Mexicans are here; give them little soft brushes and they
can
>>walk through the fields pollinating.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: V [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:16 PM
>>To: deborah byron
>>Subject: ***Possible Spam*** Re: CS>honeybees
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>>Yeah our whole food system depends on the bees . if they die we all
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>>V
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>>>Problems with tracheal mites as well as other diseases can certainly be
>>>seen as symptoms of a weakened constitution, the same sort of holistic
>>>perspective we apply to human illnesses. In fact some observers of
>>>commercial beekeeping practices predicted as early as the 1920s the
demise
>>>of honeybees that has occurred in the last 15 years. All bees, including
>>>wild ones, have most definitely been affected by big Ag. with it's
>>>pesticides and the overall degradation of their environment. Its likely
>>>that the phenomenon of swarming has gradually affected wild bee genetics
>>>as well. By the time mites showed up, the bees were already struggling
>>>and thus less able to develop defenses. Of course, conventional
>>>beekeeping as taught at the agricultural extension services virtually
>>>refuses to recognize environmental sources of harm, much less that any of
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>>>the methods they promote might be detrimental.
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>>>DByron
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