Re: Food for thought

**K*@aol.com**

In a message dated 1/31/2006 4:12:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
tom@growingedge.com writes:

In  Mendocino county, CA. voters passed overwhelmingly ballot measures   
that not only ban growing GMOs in their county but a strict labeling   
law on products grown elsewhere but sold in the county. Now the GMO   
companies are lobbying in the state legislature to prohibit counties   
from doing just that

I am not going to comment on this issue seeing as many people have already  
from both sides.  What does strike me though is the idea that the people  
cannot be heard.  For many years the link of mercury in children's vaccines  has 
been an issue that started at ground level knowledge and disputed by big  
government bodies claiming that it did or did not 'cause' autism (another  subject 
that I am not going to comment on).  It has taken years to get  someone's 
attention but it does happen.  Eventually the public  opinion/minority involved 
does get noticed and the science does get  scrutinized.  GMOs will get their time 
to truly justify their worth-  perhaps not as quickly as some of us would 
like, and hopefully before too  many incidents have fallen prey.  In the case of 
autism it was a senator  whose grandchild was diagnosed with autism.  Maybe we 
will need to have a  full scale disaster before anti- GMO legislation is 
sponsored by prominent  politicians.  

What really strikes as strange though is that  clearly many/most  of us are 
organically inclined and do not promote chemicals, so how did the  commercial 
companies brainwash the subdivision owner to  contaminate  the waterways?? That 
predates any of this GMO stuff.  How do we educate  them without coming 
across as left wing preachers or weirdos?????

Kate  Copsey
Freelance Garden Writer
Herbs, Historic Gardens
Pittsburgh,  PA
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