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?
@radcap: I am so sick of you calling me a liberal when I am clearly far to the left of liberal. Plus I am the founder of this site and have been writing shit like this all along.
@radcap - annalee terminated: Not actually sure why this is a liberal or conservative thing. Do conservatives believe that the economy is stellar right now? Genuinely confused here.
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!"
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Do you actual grasp how big 600 acres are? I've been to plenty of farms smaller than that but which get a LOT more than that in a day. The air remains fresh, crisp, and clean.
Stop buying into (let alone spreading) enviro propaganda.
@radcap: I live on a slightly smaller farm, only 12 acres, but if that 600 acres was all in a row, that would be 120,000 feet, which is roughly ~24 miles. That is a car every ten feet or so. Now you get all those cars trying to get into/leave a small area on a small road, and add in some diesels, it won't smell like a crisp spring day.
@radcap - annalee terminated account: I am not trying to spread propaganda. This is from the article:Instead, an estimated 11,000 vehicles snaked around cornfields and backed up more than two miles. About 30 acres of the 600-acre farm 37 miles north of Denver became a parking lot.
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.
This makes me chuckle like when I see people idling in line waiting for gas.
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.
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.
@dwardio: I can completely understand why they stole those things. They can resell/use all the food, which is not as easy as it is with electronics. If they were just hungry, they would have stolen the food only, and not the money. This seems like a pure greed thing and not a hunger thing. If you're hungry, you rarely bite the hand that feeds you, let alone 12 times in two months.
food riots lol. he said it was free. we are the most lazy society on the planet and will go well out of our way for free. if he would have put a price tag on it say .05/lb 10% of that number probably wouldnt have shown up.
@dead_red_eyes: "You know the food riots aren't far away when you hear stories like this" Until, of course, you realize the story is hype, not fact.
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.
@radcap - annalee terminated: So you're saying people went miles out of their way to get free food but it wasn't because they were hungry? Did they want the food to insulate their walls with or something?
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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.
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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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