http://greenlagirl.com/2006/08/27/interesting-quote-how-to-fix-agriculture

My comments on her thread:

Well he forgot to add: Take half the money saved from eliminating corporate welfare and turn it into tax incentives for small, local, organic farming. use the other half to pay down the deficit.

Use a few percenty of the first half to fund research into robotic farming designed to make organic farming using renewable electric power more efficient than chemical, diesel fueled, labor intensive farming.

That way organic farmers with a few acres can do it themselves on their computer connected robot that fertilizes (organic), waters, weeds,plants, harvests, all the stuff you would need to break your back doing, or break someone eles back, for below minimum wage.

Why do people use herbicide? Too much time and effort it takes to do it manually. Same with fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides. Squash potato bugs manually? Yikes.

But a robot will vacuum them up and feed ‘em to your chickens, bwwaaaacckk (happy chicken music).

Now go tell some really rich garden loving people about this you LAers, maybe Laury David will fund this? You go LAgirl!