Americans need to reconnect with their land. Having a lawn is just wrong on so many levels.

The British upper class invented the lawn as a sign of conspicuous consumption. Using your land (especially the limited real estate of the British Isles) for lawns is a statement that you don't need to use it to grow food. Instead you play croquet or cricket or rugby while those stupid peasants toil out of sight. They enjoyed their lawns while the Irish starved to death in the famine of the 1840's.

Do I have a lawn? No. My front yard is a work in progress, but it's design is berry bushes, perennial and annual flowers, and the spaces in between will be White clover - the kind you get seed for cover cropping and pasturing and haying that grows high. I will cut the White clover down when it flowers and dry it and feed it to my rabbits.

So Americans, many of them Irish, are mindless aping the British aristocracy by having lawns. They have this symbol of conspicuous consumption even while losing their jobs and getting their house foreclosed. It's completely mindless.

Ornamental turf, aka lawns, are the biggest crop in the USA in square footage. Now just imagine if a "foodnotlawns" movement caught on in this country, as a retaliation against agribusiness. And every property owner that converted their property to food gardens called their Congress swine and said, "I grow my own food, stop the subsidies to agribusiness" and ending agribusiness subsidies became a mass movement. That would be a good strike back against agribusiness. They take 19 billion in direct subsidies, and much much more in indirect subsidies in the form of subsidized fossil fuels. Agribusiness corrupted the government, stole the taxpayers money, and used it to destroy small family farms. This is a RICO case if there ever was one.

And now they grow GMO corn and GMO canola. That GMO (genetically modified) pollinates a neighboring natural corn or canola field. The farmer growing the natural crop can no longer sell his crop to Europe or Japan, or even many African countries, which do not accept GMO Frankenfoods. Then Monsanto sues the natural farmer for "stealing" their GMO patent! The farmer didn't want his corn to be pollinated with Freak food in the first place! He just lost his livelihood, and the company that destroyed his livelihood turns around and sues him for "patent infringement!" It's too outrageous to be believed, it hurts the mind to think such things go on, but this is a 100% true story -- happened to a canola farmer in Canada.

Agribusiness is a modern Dracula, but Bram Stoker's Dracula was a saint by comparison.

Agribusiness wants to control the global food supply with terminator seeds and "genetically modified" junkie crops that will die if they aren't dosed with special chemicals. They want to make every producer of food their techno-slave. There isn't even any decent justification for what they are doing. They say things like, "we are scientists working hard to solve world hunger," but they can't, and won't debate the opposition. Sound familiar?

Agribusiness is maneuvering itself towards a position where it can say, "Go along with us, or you'll all starve to death." I'm not joking.

Agribusiness wants to pollute and take control of the gene pool of food plants, starting with staple crops.

This is a life or death issue.