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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] GMOs
  • Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:44:10 -0700


Thank you Liz. Here's my 2 cents. Non-political means not campaigning for or
against candidates or political parties. But to bar discussion of "political"
issues would seriously detract from this list. Everything farmers do is
"political" in one sense or another, whether it concerns farmers market
regulations, food labeling and processing, organic certification, dairy
prices, hog checkoffs, fertilizer prices, GMO seeds and lawsuit protections,
international grain cartels, "mad cow" inspections, NAFTA and import
competition, you name it. The fact is, government is deeply involved in all
agriculture one way or another, and many, many farmers are in effect working
for the government whether they know it or not. I don't like it, but it's
true.

paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide

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On 3/6/2004 at 10:27 AM Liz Pike wrote:

>>I also find it curious that some topics, like GMO's, are freely lambasted
>>on this list since it's supposed to be "non-political".
>
>Politics, as in who you want for president, have no place on this list.
>But
>if the political topic is agriculturally based, such as GMOs, then that's
>most certainly allowed. Many of our subscribers are sustainable &/or
>organic growers, some certified, so if & when the NOP requires non-GMO
>seed,
>then it directly involves our livelihood and is a relevant topic to be
>discussed here.
>
>
>Liz Pike
>Laughingbrook Farm
>Westfield NC
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