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  • From: Jean French <jwf267@yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Vilsack Highlights role of agriculture
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:21:20 -0800 (PST)

"Our researchers are now working ..we will develop crops that rely less on chemical inputs and more on their own genetics to resist pests and diseases."
 
That phrase from Sec. Vilsack's speech also worries me a lot.  Resistance to genetically modified crops that have been altered to create their own Round-up chemicals is already being  reported in general farming publications like "Country Folks Grower", as it is seen in more than one location.   
 
I certainly agree with Dan Conine, too. 
 
Becky French
 



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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:30:01 -0600
From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Vilsack Highlights role of agriculture
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> "First, to be successful, we must narrow our focus to a defined scope of important problems. Second, we must work at scales large enough to tackle big challenges. And third, we should demand impact that improves the health, safety, and quality of life for people throughout the world."
In other words, "you little people need Us Big People to loan, tax,
charge, and feed you".

Bullshit.

We Don't Need Them.
They ARE the reason we are in the situation we have now.
People throughout the world need to shrug off the yoke of "civilization"
(city-state-based living as a priori) and choose to walk away and
possibly die doing so.
If a true environmentalist would commit suicide, does that mean a true
humanist must commit ecocide?

I'm just wondering, because that is what Vilsack and everyone else in
government is selling.

Dan C.

P.S. Borlaug was a scientific fool who did more to destroy the planet
than almost anyone, and he did it hand-in-hand with "civilization".
If you have too many cows to survive the winter on the food and shelter
you have, do you buy more cows and keep all of their calves? That's
basically what Borlaug did with humanity.





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