Pot Luck November 2015
/Chin up, Stephen
Good, the election is over. Blue is the color of a bruise on Harper’s chin and I can unpack my valise for Belize.
Archie Parsons, with Jim Slauenwhite riding shotgun, has delivered the winter’s hay. Garrett Blanchard, a neighbor high school student with a work ethic many might emulate, has shifted the bales about so that first-cut hay is in line to be first-fed. As long as pastures hold up, the cows couldn’t care less.
Just so, as long as supermarket shelves are filled with food most of us couldn’t care less where it comes from and therefore likewise about the recently crafted Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. TPP delights some farmers while worrying and even threatening the survival of others, depending on commodity. Pork and beef, thumbs up; dairy, thumbs down, as supply management in that sector takes another hit following losses written into the yet-to-be-ratified European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.