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  • From: Dick Pierce <dickpiercedesigns@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, Newsletter and announcement list for Design Build Live <DBLnews@designbuildlive.org>, Rachel Butler-Foog <RButler@foogs.com>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: April Fools - Monsanto - Jeff & Lisa's Post Yesterday
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:51:57 -0500

PC Friends: From April Fools to Good Friday in 24 hours! Yesterday, I
received the "Mesage from Monsanto" copied below via our local PC-listserve
- it was an April Fools prank/message.

However, I so wish that it were true that I looked up Monsanto's web sit and
"Contact us" address. It is:
http://www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/contact_us.asp. Then I sent the following
message to Monsanto.

If any of you might be motivated to send the April Fools mock memo to
Monsanto with the same or your own version of my intro, I would appreciate
it very much. If any of you felt right in emailing this request to 4-10 of
your friends, asking them to do the same, it might become an effective
message to Monsanto. Thanks to all who can/will. It would be a "good" Friday
if you could. (ps, I thought that "Hugh Grant" was also part of the April
Fools caper, but that is the real name of their CEO per their website.
Amazing [isn't it],Grace.)

TO: Chairman's Office, Monsanto HQ

I am a consumer, resident, gardener, landscape designer, farm/ranch
consultant, and Permaculture teacher in Austin, TX. I received the email
copied below on April 1st as an April Fools joke. However, as I read it, my
heart soared - I would so wish for this to be true. If Monsanto could make
such a decision and declaration I, and much of the world, would view it as
at least as historical as Ronald Reagan saying: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down
this wall."

I send you the mesage below in part as just an FYI, but in a larger sense as
a prayer that in some way and sometime soon it might become the truth. Here
is the email............

"Monsanto Discontinues MON810, CEO has Change of Heart on How to Feed the
World

April 1st, 2010 By Civil Eats

In an astounding move, Monsanto announced this morning that it would be
discontinuing production in 2011 of the genetically modified corn seed, MON
810, currently planted on millions of acres in the US, as evidence in a
recent study indicated that the digestive organs of rats who ate the grain
were disintegrating.

"We just felt we needed to do the right thing," said Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant
in a statement. "If our products are doing more harm than good, we thought
perhaps we should change our tactic for feeding the world."

Grant continued, "We've been hearing a lot about local solutions. The role
of diverse planting for preventing pests, having roads so farmers can get to
market, organizations working with subsistence farmers to build soil that
can withstand drought locally, that kind of thing. Farmers need to focus on
soil health, and we want to be a part of that solution."

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DickPierceDesigns@gmail.com
SE-NE (summer) & Austin, TX (winter)
cell-512-992-8858
www.DickPierceDesigns.com

Jan 30-Apr 3 - PDC Design Course,
Austin TX - 10 Sat's.
Jan - Mar -Citizen Gardener Classes
CitizenGardener .ning.com

-Dick's PC-Bio. on www.austinperm.com/
-You Tube Dick Pierce for video clips




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