A passage in Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly #676 made me
chuckle, as I've been following the discussion of chlorpyrifos.
Rachel #676 contains an unprecedented letter to the editor, from Paul
Hawken, regarding Monsanto's involvement with The Natural Step.
Hawken has this (among many other things) to say, and I thought it
might interest some of you:
>I had the dubious honor, however, of trying to teach two TNS
>workshops that were held at Monsanto. In one, I was joined by Don
>Aitken, senior scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists, and
>the other by Susan Burns of Natural Strategies. They were a
>disaster. Their [Monsanto's] head scientists didn't even accept
>the second law of thermodynamics. They ridiculed the slides used
>showing System Condition #2 concerning levels of human caused
>toxicity in the environment. They actually defended the level of
>artificial substances in mother's milk. They absolutely rebelled
>at System Condition #4 calling it socialism at best, communism
>possibly. They were totally offended by TNS. It was tense,
>uncomfortable, confrontational, and deeply disappointing.
Sound familiar? :^)
I want to weigh in on the chlorpyrifos issue at some point--sorry,
but I've been swamped here with a variety of things related to
various transitions. I also learned yesterday that a UNIX glitch kept
me from getting 315 pieces of e-mail since October 12, so I'm digging
out from under that as well.
peace
mish
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