The Green Party And Improving Ohio's Agriculture

[Youngstownshrimp]

Rick,

Thanks for your support and all the support many have shown in the past month.  I really was elated that so many decent and true Americans rallied behind my organizations push to preserve Youngstown as being the largest shrimp farm in Ohio today.  We did get our permit to  farm and everything is on track albeit  blatant spot zoning was committed.  I have learned though that most who cry for the revitalization in Youngstown are all talk and no action.  Those who stand on the soap box and bloviate about urban agriculture are transparently seeking pork to justify their jobs.  Youngstown will continue to decay from the leadership core outward however, the multitude of good people from the neighbors on the eastside to all the surrounding hardworking Ohioans are beginning to rise up and fight back.  The recent lawsuit file by the local landlord association is an example of free enterprise Americans alarmed by the socialist takeover of our great land.  As Stalin purged what he saw as Capitalist , I see a purge about to take place among our inept leaders.

[Rick Rowlands]

Youngstownshrimp tried to grow organic shrimp in Youngstown, and look at what he got for the effort.  Promoting urban agriculture sounds good in speeches but should someone actually try to do it then that person must be beaten into submission.  No shrimp farms, no work for employees running earthmoving equipment, no business for local plumbing outfits, less business to area restaurants who would have served the shrimp, and no locally grown organic shrimp for us to eat.  Tell me what was the purpose of the City's persecution of Youngstownshrimp? 

[irishbobcat]

The Green Party And Improving Ohio's Agriculture
Greens support a shift towards organic farming, and ending the use of toxic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

Our current food system is dominated by agribusiness and unsustainable practices that threaten our health, food security, degrade the environment, destroy communities, and squeeze out family farmers. Our so-called cheap food comes at the expense of the exploitation of our farmers and farmworkers along with the oppression of developing countries, inhumane treatment of animals, pollution of air and water, and degradation of our land.

There must be a paradigm shift and a reorganization of our agricultural system with a sense of real sustainability, where culture and ecology redefine the economics and where we create new opportunities by granting local access to safe and nutritious food, as well as farming methods that do not degrade the quality of water, soil, and air.