Kirsten Saylor wrote:
> Has anyone seen the most recent edition of "Organic
> Gardening"? I missed Maria's editorial re: biotech
> and Monsanto until I read the letters in this edition.
> Also: throughout this edition, are "food facts"
> alerting people to the presence of biotech in their
> foods, not to mention pesticides and hormones and
> corporatization of the seed industry (threating the
> diversity of seed varieties available and viable).
>
> This more politicized stance is relatively new from
> the magazine. Their (new?) motto, "if you don't or
> can't grow it yourself, BUY organic!"
>
> Thanks Kate for helping keep me up on Ag news in the
> mainstream.
>
> Kirsten
>
> --- Kate Smith <katesmith_007@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > on page a18 in the review and outlook section of the
> > wall
> > street journal is a scathing piece of writing
> > entitled
> > Greenwar.
> >
> > here is the last paragraph...
> >
> > "All of these things, plus the fact that biotech
> > could be
> > painted as a conspiracy of U.S. agribusiness, have
> > worked
> > against the industry in Europe. When the Iceland
> > grocery
> > chain decided to use genetically--modified foods as
> > a wedge
> > issue, it ran a picture of Bill Clinton with the
> > tagline
> > "The U.S. President doesn't care what you put in
> > your
> > mouth." One hesitates to speculate what Americans
> > would
> > have made of the slogan. The best lesson we could
> > learn
> > from Europe is the foolishness of allowing food
> > technology
> > and safety to become politicized merely for the
> > benefit of
> > fund-raising by the fringe."
> >
> > And in an earlier paragraph it reminds us that no
> > one has
> > sprouted wings as a result of the many years that
> > Coke has
> > been using high-fructose corn sweetener made from
> > genetically modified corn.
> >
>
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