"Amid a pandemic where food insecurity rose and grocery stores, at times, shuttered, BIPOC farmers on the south and the west side stepped in to donate fresh produce, run hyperlocal CSAs (community supported agriculture), and bring neighbors into the fold of how to run an urban farm...(The) economic downturn and exacerbated hunger crisis was so significant last year that food insecurity in Cook County was projected to increase by 48 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to Feeding America."
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The Paraclete
4 years ago

Great! The Great Hardpan Gardens. What do they grow? Broken glass and chip bags?

Mike
4 years ago

What weirdo activist makes growing vegetables about race.

Just keep making people angrier and angrier to satisfy your race perversion.

So what do you sickos want to call it when everything is about race.

Critical race theory (crt)?

Of do you clowns not even agree on a name for omnipresent race 24 x 7 x 365.

And when does it end?

It never ends until there is perfect utopia and everything is 100% equal 24 x 7 x 365.

How about a DSM psychological category for race perversion so it gets categorized as a disorder, which is what it is.

Last edited 4 years ago by Mike
debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

It gets even worse because no one can even agree on what equality even is. Equity is equalizing outcomes to remedy supposed past injustices. How do you quantify this? if all groups magically became equal today, is that sufficient enough to overcome the injustices for the time during which the groups were unequal? If it is not, should roles be reversed, and should the new equalized group have the right to make others unequal to make up for past inequality? These unequal groups had centuries of injustice starting with 1619 and there’s a lot to make up for. How much… Read more »

Last edited 4 years ago by debtsor
ProzacPlease
4 years ago

Feudalism in the heart of the city! When do the jousting tournaments begin?

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  ProzacPlease

It’s not feudalism. Growing plants by hand on vacant land is more like pre-colonial West African subsistence farming. Aka the stone age.

https://www.aehnetwork.org/working-papers/the-development-of-commercial-agriculture-in-pre-colonial-africa/

AbstractThis paper focuses on the development of commercial agriculture in pre-colonial West Africa. The evidence shows that subsistence agriculture was overwhelmingly dominant on the eve of European colonial rule.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Someone probably tills the plots on which case planting is not a big deal.

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