> From: Brian Tokar <briant@earth.goddard.edu>
> Subject: BBB/CIA Pies Biotechnology Spin Doctor
>
> >X-Sender: agit-prop@192.168.100.2
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> >Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:26:10 -1222
> >To: BBB Correspondents <bbb_apple@hotmail.com>
> >From: agitation-propaganda <agit-prop@energy-net.org>
> >Subject: BBB/CIA Pies Biotechnology Spin Doctor
> >
> >For Immediate Release: April 8, 1999
> >
> >Grinnell, Iowa--The Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB)
> delivered yet another pie
> >to a deserving recipient today, this time to free market
> biotechnology
> >advocate Dennis Avery at the "Biotechnology and
> Agriculture" conference on
> >the campus of Grinnell College.
> >
> >The Central Iowa Anarchist (CIA) cell of the BBB
> conducted "Operation:
> >Avery's Savory" to target the man who serves as Director
> of the Center for
> >Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, as a
> response to his shameless
> >and flagrant support of biotechnology and industrial
> factory farming.
> >
> >The pastry incident occurred around noon at the Herrick
> Chapel during the
> >conference's convocation. As Avery delivered a keynote
> speech, BBB/CIA
> >Agent Carob suddenly appeared and replaced the bald spot
> on Avery's head
> >with a delightful vegan and mostly organic (it is Iowa,
> after all--no Mecca
> >for health food, indeed) carob/almond/apple sauce pie.
> Agent Carob then
> >escaped on foot and disappeared, as they say, without a
> trace.
> >
> >"Dennis Avery is especially known for his
> industry-biased neoliberal
> >analyses of trends in food demand, productivity, and
> global farm
> >competition; in other words, he's a shill for industrial
> factory farming
> >and the so-called 'Green Revolution.' Likewise, the
> Center for Global Food
> >Issues is a front group for 'Big Agriculture,' which
> increasingly is
> >focused on using biotechnology to create a 'Next Green
> Revolution.' If we
> >don't stop these mad Frankensteins from polluting our
> food chain now, we
> >will have a nightmarish agricultural monster to deal
> with later. And as the
> >BBB always says, a pie in time saves nine," declared
> Agent Carob.
> >
> >Avery served nearly a decade as a senior agriculture
> analyst for the U.S.
> >Department of State, and has conducted policy analysis
> for the U.S.
> >Department of Agriculture. He authored "Saving the
> Planet with Pesticides
> >and Plastics," and also wrote "How Poverty Won't Save
> the Planet"-- a
> >response paper to John Robbins' "Diet for a New
> America." Avery wrote in
> >American Outlook magazine (a quarterly publication of
> the Hudson Institute)
> >that "consumers of organic and 'natural' foods are eight
> times as likely to
> >be attacked by a new strain of E. coli bacteria," a
> claim which has been
> >completely debunked. He also claimed that, "We've never
> found a single
> >consumer death from pesticide residues, and only a few
> dozen cases of
> >consumer illness."
> >
> >The Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues
> serves a key role for
> >agriculture that 'Wise Use' movement groups do for
> mining and logging: the
> >propagation of misinformation and lies under the banner
> of science. Avery
> >argues that "there is no evidence of a growing ozone
> hole, over the Arctic
> >or anywhere else," that there is no global warming, and
> logging is good
> >because, "if a tree isn't cut, it will die and rot"
> (quotes taken from "How
> >Poverty Won't Save the World"). The title of an Avery
> article posted on the
> >Center's website says it all: "Big Hog Farms are Good
> for the Environment."
> >Appropriately enough, noted agricultural scholar,
> activist, and former Vice
> >President Dan Quayle serves on the Board of Directors at
> the Hudson
> >Institute. Check out http://www.cgfi.com/
> >
> >This latest incident follows three previous successful
> pie operations in
> >California, in which the CEOs of the two largest global
> biotech
> >corporations (Robert Shapiro of Monsanto and Douglas
> Watson of Novartis)
> >and two university chancellors (Robert Berdahl and Larry
> Vanderhoef of the
> >University of California at Berkeley and Davis,
> respectively), were also
> >given their just desserts for recklessly pushing the
> genetic engineering
> >agenda. On February 5th, the group Welsh Action Against
> Genetics (WAAG)
> >attempted to pie the United Kingdom's Science Minister,
> Lord David
> >Sainsbury, while he was on a tour of SwanseaUniversity.
> Regrettably, a WAAG
> >operative failed in her/his organic cream pie delivery,
> though Lord
> >Sainsbury was forced to scuttle around the university
> and hide sheepishly
> >in doorways as other activists attempted follow up
> actions. The minister
> >was last seen been bundled into a car and being sped
> away from his group of
> >"admirers."
> >
> >"Operation: Avery's Savory" is dedicated to our fellow
> BBB agent-comrades
> >who bravely face down the criminal 'justice' system, and
> who will change
> >the world or pie trying. This pie-by splooshing goes out
> to the Cherry Pie
> >3, sentenced to 6 months for the Mayor Brown pie
> incident, as well as to
> >Agents Pecan (Bob Greenberg) of the BBB--Midwest Faction
> in Minnesota and
> >Creamy Genes (Dave Pike) of the BBB-Nor'eastah
> Irregulars in New Hampshire.
> >Both agents are facing serious charges as a result of
> delivering just
> >desserts to a pie-falutin' state senator and a
> genetics/animal cloner,
> >respectively.
> >
> >San Francisco Judge Ernest Goldsmith thought his
> draconian sentence for the
> >Cherry Pie 3 would deter any further pielitical
> pressure, and Lt. Col.
> >Steve Mengelkoch of the Minnesota State Patrol recently
> asserted that "we
> >will deal aggressively" with Agent Pecan. But in point
> of fact, the
> >opposite reaction to what the forces of law and order
> want has occurred,
> >and political re-pie-sals have increased dramatically
> throughout the
> >industrial world. As Max Stirner wrote many decades ago,
> "The great appear
> >great only because we are on our knees. Let us now pie."
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >A first-hand account of "Operation: Avery's Savory,"
> received at the
> >BBB--Ecotopia's General Command somewhere in the
> mountains of the
> >Headwaters Forest, via an encrypted and anonymously
> remailed communique
> >from Agent Almond of the BBB/CIA.
> >
> > *********************
> >Agent Apple,
> >Here's an account of today's operation. Grinnell College
> has a symposium
> >all week this week about "Biotechnology and
> Agriculture." Grinnell is an
> >incredibly liberal school, and does not usually support
> the dominant
> >paradigm, but the professors from the environmental
> studies department, the
> >poly-sci department, and the biology department brought
> a series of
> >speakers here almost all adamantly PRO genetic
> engineering and biotech.
> >Only one speaker (from the consumer's right-to-know
> group) was against it,
> >but she had to call herself to ask to be added to the
> schedule, and then
> >wasn't even added until the last minute, so she wasn't
> in the brochure and
> >she spoke over lunch and only five people were there.
> To the Grinnell
> >community, a slanted symposium like this is surprising.
> We don't see shit
> >like this at our "liberal" school very often.
> >
> >Anyway...
> >At the most important speech, the "convocation" (big
> deal around here, LOTS
> >of people there) Dennis Avery began the faithful biotech
> party line. As he
> >held forth on why vegetarianism was a waste of time and
> how there are
> >"primitive" people starving who need to be fed by
> increased industrial and
> >biotechnological food production, Agent Carob suddenly
> appeared behind
> >Avery and replaced the bald spot on his head with a
> carob almond apple
> >sauce pie. Agent Carob then escaped out the side door
> by the stage.
> >Immediately, several of the previous speakers and a
> couple professors who
> >were in the first row tried to stop him/her, and one who
> made it outside
> >the building almost caught Agent Carob, who escaped on
> foot.
> >
> >A woman who was standing by the door also allegedly went
> out and jumped on
> >a bicycle, but was intercepted by one of the earlier
> speakers from the
> >symposium--Monty Miller. This man, who currently heads a
> corporation called
> >Performance Solutions, "from 1981-1990 held numerous
> management positions
> >with the Monsanto Company" (quoted from Grinnell's
> brochure about the
> >speakers and the symposium). He ran at her and her bike,
> physically grabbed
> >her and knocked her down, resulting in her falling with
> her ankle twisted
> >and all the weight of not only her and the bike, but
> also Mr. Monty Miller.
> >He then proceeded to hold her down despite her screams
> that her ankle was
> >hurting, though he did however lift most of his own
> weight off of her. She
> >spent four hours in the hospital. Her ankle was x-rayed:
> not broken, but
> >severely sprained. She spoke to her lawyer and is
> consider filing assault
> >and battery charges as well as false imprisonment
> charges against him. The
> >last charge because he never said, "I'm making a
> citizens arrest," and
> >since no charges were filed against her, Miller had no
> right to detain her.
> >
> >The school threatened the woman with expulsion in an
> attempt to find out
> >the identity of Agent Carob. The police were notified
> and briefly
> >questioned her, but left rather quickly after receiving
> no information.
> >
> >Avery's response to the pie-ing was to remark that he
> felt "flattered" by
> >the action, and then he continued to take questions from
> the audience. The
> >response among the students was very mixed.
> >
> >About serving 'dessert' to corporate crooks: my English
> teacher used to say
> >there are two 's'es in that
> >word because you always want more! Give them MORE.
> >
> >Yours till the cookie crumbles,
> >Agent Almond for the BBB/CIA
>
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