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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

From: clanSkeen <sgian AT planetc.com>

> Socialism is very much like the "King Saul" effect that took place with
the
> federal Certified Organic standard everyone thought they wanted - they
> thought they wanted it because the imagined it would be taylor made for
just
> them, perfectly suited to their needs.  It never works that way.

I don't think this is a good analogy.  Certified Organic was a local concept
and handled locally.  Big business wanted a part of it and wanted to
downgrade the locally "owned" certifications.  I think it is another example
of the problems with globalization, WTO and all the false-fronted
organizations that are supposedly there to protect the consumer while infact
they are there to promote the needs and wants of big business--FDA, Ag, etc.

Lynda