evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (07/18/85)
People are complaining about Dylan's comments regarding saving the American
farmers by giving some $ to help them with their mortgages. He has a fine
idea, and I don't think it's nearly as inappropriate as everyone is making
it out to be. This was a concert to help starving people, right? While I
understand that much (most?-- I'm a city kid, I don't know exactly how much
comes from where) of the food we eat comes from big farm combines, a certain
amount of it certainly comes from small farms. These guys are having a tough
time. And we are sending all this money outside the country. Doesn't look
good from their point of view. There are also lots of people starving in
THIS country. Helping out some of those farmers couldn't hurt them ('course
we already have big stockpiles of food stored away anyway, but just the same...)
Anyway, if Dylan got up and said that we should send some of the money to
...oh, dandruff research, that would be real inappropriate, but he didn't...he
picked something relevant to Live-Aid, and something closer to home!
--Evan Marcus
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