tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post5818897609264211442..comments2023-11-05T12:59:29.404+02:00Comments on CsĂkszereda musings: Milking itAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11294221123964774524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-63339754703255784382008-07-27T02:53:00.000+03:002008-07-27T02:53:00.000+03:00I noticed in areas near Deva that some smallholder...I noticed in areas near Deva that some smallholders also have access to land held by absentee landlords...they graze their animals and/or cultivate orchards in the hills on larger holdings, and in return, they provide the landlord whose land it is some cheese, milk, meat, or other goods. Sort of a sharecropping among village acquaintances. ;-)Frank Sellinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13941742968580723970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-91875845110923119492008-07-05T22:46:00.000+03:002008-07-05T22:46:00.000+03:00It is interesting, Andy, and it affects a lot of p...It <I>is</I> interesting, Andy, and it affects a lot of people's lives. A part of me - the more foolish part - hopes that the world's crude oil runs out soon - it's gonna happen before too long anyway - so that food can't be shipped around so easily and EU regulations will have to be scrapped and Romanian smallholders will be at last be the envy of the world :-)<BR/><BR/>Or, perhaps even better, the huge tracts of unused pasture in Romania are used to cultivate oil-seed rape; this makes adequate fuel, I believe, which can then be sold at an exhorbitant price to Jeremy Clarkson* et al.<BR/><BR/>I didn't know I was this ecologically concerned - I didn't know I had it in me.<BR/><BR/>* A British journalist who has convinced many people that burning as much petrol as possible is a great idea.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com