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upaloopa

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4. I can go to the store and buy a couple of tomatoes

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 07:16 PM

Dec 2014

and put them on the window sill and come back in a couple of weeks and they haven't even begun to rot.
They also don't taste like tomatoes nor do they smell like tomatoes.
I use to work in produce and we used all our senses to judge vegetables. We felt them looked at their color smelled them lasted them and at times shook them to listen to a rattle of seeds inside. You can't do that now unless it is at a farmer's market.

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I raised pigs as a kid...sometimes pork from the discount market smells just like the pigsty. HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #16

I did this in high school tabbycat31 Dec 2014 #22

It's not just the production of meat, it's the production of everything under capitalism. Brickbat Dec 2014 #2

so true Brickbat olddots Dec 2014 #3

I can go to the store and buy a couple of tomatoes upaloopa Dec 2014 #4

I remember things like that helpmetohelpyou Dec 2014 #6

Amen. This is a great idea. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #8

Wait--I'm no defender of advanced capitalism, but ... frazzled Dec 2014 #25

Take them to Parliament / Congress too. An even more disgusting sight to behold CBGLuthier Dec 2014 #5

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I think most of the kids I went to High School with did. Bosso 63 Dec 2014 #11

The majority of my students LWolf Dec 2014 #13

I have been to one AnalystInParadise Dec 2014 #17

And this is the reason why we raise our own livestock, GGJohn Dec 2014 #20

+1 Go Vols Dec 2014 #23

My fifth grade class went to a slaughterhouse in 1956. MineralMan Dec 2014 #24

And take them to a corporate vegetable farm nichomachus Dec 2014 #26

take them for a trip thru youtube easychoice Dec 2014 #27

Agreed. All people should know where their food comes from NickB79 Dec 2014 #28

It is a good thing to hunt and grow your own food..however KinMd Dec 2014 #29