There seems to be interest in my addition of the USSR to the argument 
about sustainability, that is was a leap of logic.

How are we going to get to small "sustainable" farms, and get rid of big 
agriculture and achieve all the rest of the desires of the sustainable 
faithful?

Government is the only vehicle and the faithful are trying to use it. So 
a look at the extreme of government management, the USSR, is valid. 
Especially if you look at the posts on this list to breakup big 
agriculture and do away with commercial beekeepers.If that is not 
totalitarian in its thinking, then nothing is.

If anyone here thinks government is benign, they are in company with 
Peter Pan. Just a look at some of the good intentions of our own 
government recently. Congress mandated Folic acid supplements to many 
foods to help prevent a small number of people with problems in 
pregnancy. The only problem is, a recent increase in colon cancer has 
been tied to the increase in Folic acid in our diets. The reason, Folic 
acid is a cell grower and helps cancers to grow and not remain dormant. 
So Congress, in doing good and help a few, has done bad and hurt many at 
the same time.

Truth is, if you want to be sustainable, as I am in my agricultural 
practices, it is an individual, market and social driven thing. That 
works best.

When you are going to save the planet with irrational approaches, which 
only the government is capable of attaining on a daily basis, then you 
are moving into territory which all of us should be very concerned. If 
you think that is impossible in any of our societies, you are not a 
student of history. Or of some of our presidential candidates.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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