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Jezebel 
06/05/09
Michelle, you can just tell everyone to STFU. You get a pass from me for just about anything you want to do from now on, just for putting up with this bullshit.
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As soon as Barack got the win, he became some god who must be the perfect example of perfecty perfection for all peoples in America at all times. And Michelle, of course, became his sister-queen, who must also be perfecty perfect perfect.
I tend to prefer my leaders to be humany human human. But maybe that's just me.
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Frack you, pesticide companies.
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Actually, if we want to get technical, I would argue that conventional growing techniques would have no pesticides as that is a relatively new concept in farming, when one looks at the timeline of human history. Plus, this is essentially a large kitchen garden. One that's getting a lot of press and was planted by school children, but still a kitchen garden. Most people's kitchen gardens are chemical free with the exception of some Miracle Grow products or something. Leave the woman alone! Her primary message is eat fruits and veggies first, which everyone can agree on. The local, organic, and sustainable portion is the secondary and something that we should think about and consider.
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Also, a note on the cost of eating organically and locally: I am a member of an organic CSA in Dallas, and I'll be the first to admit it's pretty pricey. But, my farmer has several families who are on work shares and eat for free. If we have a bumper crop, she gives the surplus to food pantries. Eating healthy, local, organic food =/= snob.
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I mean really, that's the only justification I need. Big agriculture turns out mostly crap produce. Most regular tomatoes you buy in the store taste like absolutely nothing.
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He told me to calm down.
Also, one of the plants I'm growing, and the one I'm most excited about, the Ground Cherry is supposed to be delicious: a flavor like pineapple x strawberry x vanilla. And it grows like a weed! I've never seen this for sale anywhere, and for $2.50, I can eat my little heart out; I have a couple of dozen on the plant already, and I am counting down until they ripen. Nom.
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It's babysteps. I'm only in year three of my gardening exploits, and I have made pretty gigantic leaps and bounds.
I recently visted a friend in Hoboken, NJ, and she made this tomato/eggplant/basil dish, and she said it was good, but the basil was so expensive. And it is. So I told her to throw a pot of basil among her landlady's pansy pots...she surely wouldn't care. And a pot, a little dirt, and a packet of basil seeds (or a basil plant) would cost little more than one purchase of fresh basil--if it was only a meager success, what have you lost? And, if as I suspect it would be, it was a raging success, then you could be swimming in basil for less than $5, and who doesn't want to spend a summer swimming in basil?
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Shut it, crazy agrictulral conglomerates. You're also putting small farmers out of business (aka Real Americans), PATENTING SEEDS so that people CAN'T grow certain foods, and suing Americans into bankruptcy when your seeds pollinate, drift IN THE WIND, and take root on THEIR land.
You are evil corporations, as heinous as any oil company. So SHUT IT, aiight?
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Of course, that plant died anyway.
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If you have bugs in your garden, all you need are marigolds.
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Also, going back to a more seasonal/local/organic way of eating appeals to me very strongly, not to mention this kind of produce has more nutrients from not traveling. Conventionally grown apples taste like nothing - like water - to me, and the only time I want to eat them is in the fall, anyway. Eating summer fruits in December seems really weird to me.
I don't want pumpkin in June, and I don't want strawberries in December. Call me a buzzkill.
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