On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Tell that to the 7th kine. In reality, subsistence (this word means something) farmers were mostly chronically malnourished--even in the good times--and died in droves whenever the sun didn't shine or the rain didn't fall. I don't consider that doing "alright."
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