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11/25/08
I am really curious does this kind of alarmist nonsense drive up page view counts? Is there some kind of Gawker Media quota for sensationalist junk posts?
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Breathing in the fresh country air and spending quality time with their families, more than 40,000 adventurous people participated in an age old tradition of 'gleaning' - the farmer's practice of letting neighbors help themselves to vegetables that remain in their field after harvest (thus getting work they would normally have to pay for get done for free).
This year's gleaning brought in a much greater number of food, family, and farming enthusiasts than was expected. Chris Miller, owner of the 600 acre farm told the Washington Post, " 'Overwhelmed' is putting it mildly. People obviously need an escape from the big city!" As a reporter, when you see stories like this, you feel free to completely editorialize. In this case, you know more low cost, outdoor, family-friendly venues aren't far away. And that is a good thing for this nation!"
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Stop buying into (let alone spreading) enviro propaganda.
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Like I said, stop with the propaganda.
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11,000 cars on 30 acres isn't a small amount. Cars sitting in a line of traffic don't smell that great. You said they were breathing in "fresh" country air. I was just saying that 11,000 cars in the same small area in ~12 hours kind of detracts from the fresh air that they could have experienced if less people were there. I know that if the wind blows right, when there are idling buses in the school parking lot across the street from my farm, I catch a whiff of diesel, which is not what I think "fresh" air smells like. And BTW, you DO NOT know my world view. Did I say "Get rid of the cars!"? No, I just stated that sitting behind someone else's car for hours in traffic with their tailpipe blowing back at you isn't what "Fresh Country Air" is.
11/25/08
Did you get your free potatoes?
Yes! 5 lbs!
And how much money did you lose from work and gas did it cost you to get that 5 lbs of potatoes?
As for the church thefts, I'd like a little more info on what was stolen. Right before I started working in the caf at my college, someone drove a 18 wheeler up to the loading dock and while security thought they were making a delivery, stole a lot of food/emptied out freezers. That was over 10 years ago, and I don't think hunger was their motivation, and there haven't been food riots since then.
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A dozen churches in the Ft. Collins area have been broken into since September. The only thing that was stolen from most of them were cash and the contents of their food banks. It is interesting that they did *not* steal office equipment, computers, TVs, or fixtures.
I don't think food riots are likely either, but it *is* a sign of the times when folks start stealing from the very people who are willing and able to help them! I'm not a fan of organized religion, but I have to believe that churches with food banks would have gladly given them food if they had just asked.
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Agreed.
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Annalee is presenting as fact things which simply aren't evident in the story. In the title of her story, she indicates it is hunger driving these 40,000 people. I'm sorry, but she simply made that sh*t up. She is just sensationalizing for political ends.
But hey - I guess that is the FICTION part of the science fiction here. At least she got HALF of the site's theme right.
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