Letters: "Those fools whose shelves are filled with plenty... Will only learn when their bellies are empty"

A poem by W.S. Towers on the current state of the farming industry

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Letters: "Those fools whose shelves are filled with plenty... Will only learn when their bellies are empty"

Those politicians once decreed More food they will never need With bellies full and heads so empty The bureaucrats once saw eternal plenty Farmers have done their job and done it well But...

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