permaculture

[miekal and <dtv@mwt.net>]

It gets better.  The Hudson Institute is a non-profit "think tank" 
funded by Monsanto & a whose of who of biotech engineering.  Their 
recent campaign has included full page ads in Southwestern WI (& other 
milk producing areas of the US) targeted specifically at organic milk 
companies such as the one that I work for.  If you scroll down the page 
you can see they are using standard organic activist types of direct 
action such as going to stores & meeting with store managers to tell 
them that organic milk is destroying family farms & putting pesticide 
toting, bht powered family farms out of business.  We have a 2-3 year 
waiting list of farms waiting to get on the truck at Organic Valley.


http://www.cgfi.org/materials/dairy/milkismilk.htm


So far OV has been somewhat reticent to even answer to the ads & has 
been content to ignore them.  But because organizations such as Hudson 
Institute have so much money behind them (BIG MONEY) they are starting 
to receive national attention via the new services.


Another interesting note today in state news is that they just 
announced the results of a  UW-Wisconsin Ag study that found that round 
up was more effective & "better on the environment" if it was used with 
biotech seeds as opposed to standard farm grade hybrid seeds.  I can 
see where that is going.


Ive been a skeptic of organic certified labelling for years but at this 
point if it means nothing more than being sure that no anti-biotics & 
no synthetic non-organic inputs were used in the production of the food 
I'm buying, that's a value that I'm willing to pay a little more for.

mIEKAL




On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 02:32 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Monsanto Sues Small Maine Dairy for Advertising Its Milk as  
> 'Artificial Growth Hormone-free'..
> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:22:58 -0500
> From: Mike Miller <mmiller@PCSIA.NET>
> Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group 
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> FYI
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0709-02.htm
>
> MM
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