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> From: Dr Maggi Linington <lngtn-mj@acaleph.vista.ac.za>
> To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1086
> Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 8:51 AM
>
> Reply to Kathryn
>
> >I would like to point out that I am not an advocate of conventional
> farming
> > in any way - in fact I am a standards manager for an organic
certification
> > scheme
>
> I hate to split hairs on language use, but I think this is vital:
> What is "conventional?" I would rather see a term like Maximum profit
> farming or Highly intensified farming or Big business farming. I also
> hate the word commercial: all farming has something to do with
> commerce unless it is subsistance. Maybe a good term would be Hi-Tech
> farming.
> >
> >
>
> - but whoever is putting out this scaremongering rubbish is simply
> > playing into the hands of the multinational (not just american)
companies
> > who are working so hard to prevent the consumer finding out just what
is in
> > the food they eat.
>
> Hear Hear, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.. I think these
> people either have little knowledge, or if they are knowledgeable
> they are extremists who have a passion to see a falsehood as a truth
> or they have a hidden agenda i.e. they want to scare people into
> buying their products etc.
>
> > kathryn
> >
> >
> > Kathryn Marsh, Joint Standards Manager, Organic Trust, Tobersool,
> > Balbriggan, Co Dublin, Ireland
> > Phone 0353 1 841 3681
> > kmarsh@iol.ie
> >
> Dr MJ Linington
> HEAD:Department Agricultural Sciences
> email:lngtn-mj@acaleph.vista.ac.za
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> P/Bag X641, Pretoria, 0001
> Tel: 012 322 1303
> Fax: 012 322 3243
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