I'm reading the comments to the food stamp article.

[conuly]

One person rather hopefully mentioned urban gardening, and another said "well, who's going to do it? I can't picture EBT recipients getting their hands dirty."

Fuck* you. When society collapses and we all have to resort to cannibalism, you are going right to the top of the list, buddy.

(Is it wrong that I keep a list just in case society collapses and we all have to resort to cannibalism? I like to be prepared, that's all!)

* autocorrect made this FCC you. LOL!

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[eofs.livejournal.com]

Have to wonder how much subsistence gardening the person who made the ignorant remark has ever done.

Whenever we run a story in which farmers share concerns for the harvest because it's been too hot/cold/wet/dry we get people commenting that farmers are always moaning and that only x months ago they were saying it was too cold/hot/dry/wet and it would be a bad harvest. I have to wonder whether any of those people have ever tried to grow anything. Spring was so late this year that my daffodils were over a month late. Not a huge issue for me, it just meant that we had flowers out at a weird time. But for the growers who supply the cut flower industry, daffs five weeks late meant missing both Mothers' Day and Easter - the two biggest days for them. (We featured one grower who didn't bother to cut his in the end, just left them in the fields as a display for passers by to enjoy. By the time they were fit to harvest there was no market for them.)

[conuly]

*headdesk*

How stupid can some people be?

[eofs.livejournal.com]

You and I both know the answer is "very". The comments you read on articles or blog posts and despair? That's basically the same as I get to do for my job

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Yep. No ripe tomatoes this year, not one.

(A few may ripen off the vine. The rest are becoming various green-tomato products.)