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Michael Pollan urges us all to grow our own veggies. But farming is work -- ask any peasant
  • The issue is autonomy

    If you are thinking of a wide screen TV, but you went for a solar panel, congratulations, you get it. There is no shame in not gardening, especially if you buy vegetables from your neighbors and you provide them with something, (perhaps the pleasure of watching you pedal by on your bicycle). Autonomy is not synomous with freedom, and or independence. It simply means you are not interdependent. America is interdependent with China, and that isn't a good thing. Being interrelated is good, that is built on sharing things which have no recipricocity.

    By the way what do you consider a long bicycle ride?