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Made Me Cry
Joe the Farmer
visits a warehouse.
A Excerpt from
"Joe the Farmer"
Date: 5/16/2006 10:13:54 AM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 791 times 8:12 AM
May 15, 06
Going through my "Joe the Farmer"
book this morning.
Found this little page of the
MS. Shed a Tear.
Your EG
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Joe the Farmer
By the time Joe the Farmer grew up,
there were fewer and fewer local farms and farming families.
More and more farsm were far away from the cities.
Farms were getting bigger and bigger.
There were bigger and bigger machines to make
farming bigger, and faster, and grow food faster.
There was less and less contact between the farmers
and the people who ate the food. The big farms far away
sold their fold to storage places called "warehouses"
and "distribution centers." Then the warehouses sent
trucks out to BIG stores that all looked the same,
and had the same kind of food that was grown far away.
The people who ran the big farms hardly knew
the first names of the people who were buying their food.
Joe the Farmer did not grow up this way.
This was not how he grew his food.
Joe the Farmer thought about every body who
would eat his food when he grew it.
Joe the Farmer knew that growing bigger and bigger
size food did not mean growing healthier food
and healthier people.
Joe the Farmer took his food to different stores
close to where he lived. He told them his food
was grown down the street. It did not come
to the market from distant countries or far way places,
devlivered in big trucks.
One, day, Joe the Farmer decided to take his food
to the warehouses. "Will you buy the good food
from my farm?" he asked.
They Said, "No."
Joe's food did not fit in boxes very well.
Then Joe the Farmer went to the city
and visited a large health food store.
"Will you buy my food?" asked Joe the Farmer.
They said, "No!"
Even the large Health Food Stores told
Joe the Farmer they only bought food from Warehouses.
They told him they were part of a "chain"
which meant what was good for one store
was what you could find in all the stores.
All the food looked like all the other food in the
other stores. They said this made it easier
to sell the food "commodiities."
Joe the Farmer was sad to hear this.
Joe the Farmer never thought of his food
as a "commodity." It was just food for growing people.
What could Joe the Farmer do?
NO MATTER WHAT,
JOE THE FARMER, NEVER,
NEVER, NEVER, GAVE UP.
--
© 2006, Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener,
from the Unpublished book
for Children called
"Joe the Farmer"
8:34 AM
May 15, 06
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