>Organic farming is more labor intensive. Stoop labor, to me, suggests both
>physical procedures as well as a certain type of social relationship. In
>this sense, gardening is not stoop labor.
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>It requires more direct physical work to prune a tree and open it up so
>that the insects do not become as much of a problem then to drive past and
>spray. I would rather do the pruning.
Assuming that most of us will continue not to grow our own food - that is, assuming the continuing social division of labor - then this isn't a matter of personal choice (preferring to do the pruning) but a matter of social choice. Socialist critics of capitalist agriculture have to confront those choices, don't they? Even if Prince Charles doesn't?
Doug