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Bryan[_6_] Bryan[_6_] is offline
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Default The folks who harvest our food enjoy less legal protections fromunsafe conditions than ANIMALS.

On May 11, 7:18*am, A Moose in Love >
wrote:
> On May 10, 7:57*pm, Bryan > wrote:> On May 10, 6:29*pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> > > No.

>
> > I'm curious. *Do you consider yourself to be a morally decent person?

>
> Chemo's just muckin' about as usual.
> I think that we should pay more for produce all around. *As long as
> the extra cost is passed on to the lowly agricultural worker.
> When I was in Costa Rica in 1989, a coffee picker made the equivalent
> of $8.00 US per day. *It makes it quite difficult for the worker to
> buy a bottle of coke.
> God forbid he/she craves a Big Mac.


I told my wife that I thought Costa Rica would be a nice place to
spend winters after retirement, but she rained on my Costa Rican
parade with her answer. "I bet they have really large palmetto bugs
down there." Hmmmph!

I have an intense dislike for roaches.

--Bryan