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  • From: Miranda Smith <Miranda.Smith AT creativehomeowner.com>
  • To: 'market farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: An Informed Discussion of GMOs:
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:06:48 -0500


I agree with Beth. It's thanks to these discussions that I stay up to date.

Miranda

> ----------
> From: Hook Family
> Reply To: market farming
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:26 AM
> To: market farming
> Subject: Re: An Informed Discussion of GMOs:
>
> Dorene, I am very grateful to all the folks who keep me up to date on
> Avery
> and others like him and the controversial topics they discuss. Without
> these e-mail lists I would be seriously under informed. But with all the
> info I get here and various print publications I feel as if I can
> educatedly
> explain some of the controversy to my CSA members. They read, watch TV
> etc,
> how would they ever know in casual reading who funds Avery, how would they
> know that the "studies" he sites are either erroneously quoted or made up.
> I say thank you and keep up the good work. Beth
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tetrad <garlicgr AT pond.com>
> To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 3:31 AM
> Subject: Re: An Informed Discussion of GMOs:
>
>
> > Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > >Do us all a favor and stop giving Avery publicity in this mailing
> > >list.
> >
> > Hmm, I thought I had done a fairly through job of showing what a
> blowhard
> he
> > is. The event happened, I was asked to write an article about it and as
> he
> > is presented in such a positive light in the traditional media, I
> thought
> it
> > was important to expose him for the "act" that the audience felt he was.
> >
> > Avery's already lost credibility in PA for saying that only organic
> farmers
> > use manure -- here in PA (land of dairy cows!), *everyone* who has
> access
> to
> > the stuff uses it and always has. If his credibility can be chipped
> even
> > further by folks asking, what all of us at the conference felt was the
> > *primary* question -- "How can this man claim to be a "critic" of
> organic
> > agriculture if he has publically declared he knows nothing about two of
> the
> > major "schools" (BioIntensive and Permaculture)?"
> >
> > I think it's important that folks like us (who actually practice what we
> > preach) challenge the popular media when they present us with an
> "expert"
> > who is nothing of the sort. And we can't do that unless we know what
> was
> > said where and are able to formulate intelligent, pointed questions in
> response.
> >
> > Just my thoughts. . .
> >
> > Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> > St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden
> >
> > A mission of
> > St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA
> 19460
> >
> >
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