Re: herbs > antibiotics/pesticides

Jim's right and this same process is involved in just about everything.  

For those of you who don't get 'The American Gardener', or missed this
elsewhere:
http://www.vegrains.org/cgi-bin/spanish/news.cfm?newsID=590

A chemist in MN working for Cargill Dow found the secret to making
everything that's made from oil, now from corn.  And the corn can be plain
old corn, not bio-engineered.  But look what happened to fueling cars with
corn, or anything else.  It gets squashed.  Apparently our country would
rather go to war to protect our source of oil rather than use an annually
renewable source of energy and materials.

Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 1/2/2003 6:22:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] herbs > antibiotics/pesticides
>
> yes. and then fred and annie will get together at their local farm bureau 
> and decide to lobby for a commodity board that will decide rules for the 
> salability of the products they grow. john dow will support this effort 
> with the common legal bribes of our political system, campaign 
> contributions. if fred and annie grow apples, john's bribery will result
in 
> an apple board, which will rule that apples must be free of the blemishes 
> that john dow's chemicals prevent before they can be sold in interstate 
> commerce.
>
> welcome to free enterprise 101.
>
> At 06:43 PM 1/2/03, you wrote:
> >Doing a Donna?  chuckle....
> >
> > > ...is that if consumers did not demand the level of perfection in
> > > their foodstuffs that they do, then there wouldn't really be a
perceived
> > > need for antibiotics and pesticides, now would there?
> >
> >Melody,
> >It's true people want the best available, but if perfection weren't
> >available, they'd take the best they could get.  Let's say pesticides
> >haven't been used yet and people are accepting of less than perfect
veggies
> >because they've not seen better. John Dow invents an insecticide and
tells
> >Fred Farmer he can sell more than his neighbors if he uses Dow's
chemical.
> >And he does.  Annie Aggie down the road can't get much for her crop
because
> >it's blemished, so she asks Fred to hook her up with John.
> >It's money, Melody, not the consumer.
> >
> >Kitty
> >
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