Tim's Test

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Complex - to - Simplified
As each goose flaps its wings, it creates an
"uplift" for the birds in its wake. By flying a
"V" formation, the whole flock adds 71 greater
flying range rather than if each bird flew alone.
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Huge leaps of progress have been made...
in the plant,
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100 Years
not in Direct Markets!
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Direct Marketing does not seem to have evolved
as much as other industries. nor has rural
development
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This lamb farmer in upstate NY stated it
best An Intellectual Vacuum (Excerpt from
Successful Strategies for Food System Change New
Rules or Market Populism by Karl North) In my
experience with action networks like the
Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research
and Education, the Campaign for Sustainable
Agriculture, and fledgling land-grant alternative
agriculture programs like the Farming
Alternatives Program (now the Community, Food and
Agriculture Program) at Cornell, scientists and
other activists who promote change strategies
rarely justify them with this depth of social
analysis. There are several reasons for this.
First, to be fair to scientists, it must be said
that, because it is so revealing, this sort of
social science has been demonized and its
practitioners driven to the margins of their
disciplines. In fact most social analysis
produced in the United States that reveals
systemic causes is typically dismissed as
leftist, and not given a fair evaluation.
Second, the analytical capacity of change agents
in organizations like those already mentioned is
further limited by their training, which has
tended to be in biological, not social science.
Finally, analysis that reveals systemic causes
also reveals that only strategies that leverage
system changes have a real chance of success. As
such strategies generally require a more
difficult and more sustained effort than ones
currently popular activists tend to shy away,
rationalizing their choices by wishful thinking.
But this leaves an intellectual vacuum that needs
to be filled if we are to find ways of working
for change that have a chance of bearing
permanent fruit.
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