Fayetteville Observer
Monday, April 28, 2008
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Farmers saluted

"Tractors are sexy" was the subject line of a campaign newsletter that congressional candidate Larry Kissell sent by e-mail last week in honor of Earth Day.

Kissell, a high school teacher in Montgomery County, is the Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican from Concord. They will square off Nov. 4 in the 8th District race.

"This Earth Day," Kissell's e-mail said, "I thought it important to consider an often unsung hero of the environmental movement that remains our best line of defense in securing the ultimate goal of environmentalism — our sustainable existence. That unsung hero is the local family farmer, and must be an integral part of the solution to the tsunami of interrelated epidemics on the global horizon from the world food crisis to the world energy crisis and every imported fruit and vegetable driven home from a supercenter in a plastic shopping bag in between."