[FIG-ALL] lincoln and food security

[Heather L McIlvaine-Newsad]

I sent this out earlier, but didn't know if it went through. Thought it was interesting and timely. cheers, heather 






"...And thorough work, again, renders sufficient, the smallest quantity of ground to each man. And this again, conforms to what must occur in a world less inclined to wars, and more devoted to the arts of peace, than heretofore. Population must increase rapidly -- more rapidly than in former times -- and ere long the most valuable of all arts, will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression of any of its forms. Such community will be alike independent of crowned-kings, money-kings, and land-kings...." 

Excerpt from Mr Lincoln's address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1859 
Source: USDA's National Agricultural Library, Special Collections 
Full text at http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/exhibits/lincoln/lincoln_wisconsin.html , worth the read on Mr. Lincoln's 200th birthday.... 

-- 
Dr. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad 
Associate Professor of Anthropology 
Department of Sociology & Anthropology 
Western Illinois University 
Macomb, IL 61455 

Tel. 309.298.1264 
h-mcilvaine-newsad at wiu.edu 
www.drmcilvaine.com 

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world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its 
purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more 
wonders." Andrew Harvey, *The Return of the Mother* 

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citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that 
ever has." -Margaret Mead 
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