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drb2, your posting at 22:55 is right on and I agree with you.

Posted by Equisetum @ 0:14 on June 2, 2018  

If the identity of the real extractors of wealth from the earth needs to be limited to three vocations (farmer, miner and fisherman), as you and the original German poster have done, then I need to use a relatively broad interpretation of the term ‘farmer’ to include any persons who are occupied in commercial harvesting of the products derived from the capture of solar energy and carbon dioxide by way of photosynthetic processes.  That could include the gathering of a broad range of botanical products for which there is a market demand, for example marine algae and a broad range of products harvested from forest ecosystems.  My own work background is in forestry, so I do not view it as a violation of the term ‘farmer’ to include in that term the concept of ‘tree farms’ and the harvesting of naturally produced wood, cellulose, lignin and fuel products.  All of these products are amongst the primary drivers of ‘manufacturing’.

I have no problems with the point that you and the former German poster are making.  I just wanted to make the aditional point that the term ‘farmer’ needs to be understood to include all commercially important products that are the result of present or recently past  photosynthetic processes, just as the term ‘miner’ needs to include vocations that extract fuels and petrochemicals from geological petroleum deposits that have accumulated from eons of photosynthetic processes.  Cheers.  Equiz

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