Re: antibiotics/pesticides/oil lobby

Kitty - when I moved from the coal regions of Pennsylvania to the
Permian Basin in Texas in 1982, I learned VERY quickly about the power
of the big oil lobby. It was sobering to say the least.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:21:43 -0500

>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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