Evacuees moving into Louisiana social experiment
150 raise food for magnate's Florida racetrack patrons
TIM HARPER
WASHINGTON BUREAU
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A bold social experiment by Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is about to enter a second, more challenging phase.
After airlifting close to 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees to his Palm Meadows racetrack, Stronach is now in the process of moving about 150 of them back to Louisiana, where he has purchased 369 hectares of land in Simmesport. The parcel will accommodate 75 mobile homes, Black Angus cattle, catfish and crawfish ponds, pecan plantations and chickens and pigs that will be raised by hurricane victims.
The output from this "holistic farming'' experience will end up on the plates of patrons at Stronach's Gulfstream Park in Palm Beach, Fla., if this experiment works.
"This is no FEMA Village,'' says Dennis Mills, the former Liberal MP who is helping "Canadaville'' take root.
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http://tinyurl.com/au7t2Not sure what I think of this... my first reaction is "yaaah". What do you guys think?