CD Launch/Girls Night Out - The Show Must Go On
Next Thursday at Trout Bar & Cafe I'm getting together with three of the best and brightest female singer/songwriters in southern Tasmania.
This is not a women-only gig but an opportunity to celebrate women performers and writers. I hope this will become a semi-regular event at least, but that depends on interest.
Also, (at long last) I'll be launching my CD single 'Live Sampler' which was recorded at the Peacock Theatre earlier this year.
Lana Chilcott (bless her!) is letting me use her guitar for this gig, as it's extremely unlikely that I'll ever see the Fender again.
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posted by Debra Manskey at 10:11 am
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Pundits and propagandists of the Chamber of Commerce and the "boomers" of the industrial system are fond of claiming the great productivity of industrial agriculture by pointing out how few farmers there are in ratio to the population. In reality, the most efficient systems are the most "primitive." Industrial agriculture is by far the most energy inefficient system of food production.
Hundreds of industrial workers participate with each industrial farmer. There are the oil field workers, oil refinery workers, the truck drivers, the plastics plant workers, the workers who create the packaging of farm produce, the packagers, distributors, wholesalers, delivery people and retail clerks. An enormous amount of machinery is required for this process. All machinery is produced by factories somewhere, by people who must be counted in the food production network. All the seed is dependent upon years of development by cadres of technical workers. The drying, freezing, canning, distribution and other processes rely upon an infrastructure of transportation and industry. If the food is from irrigated fields the input of effort stretches back through the digging of canals, the building of dams, laying out of the electrical systems to run the pumps, the planning of these systems and often the disruption of many lives that formerly occupied the space where the dam and its accouterments now exist. The industrial agriculturist does not simply go out to the swidden plot by his village and eat a fruit from the tree. Industrial agriculture is not just a planting of seed; it is a vast complex, expensive, energy intensive, destructive system that will ultimately collapse without possibility of recovery.
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