You wrote:
>> The "new technology" in this country will be the low risk
>> pesticides and they will essentially obliterate the ill
>> founded and false organic purity claim.
LM wrote:
> Yeah, keep killing that straw man! I think he's almost history!
> I am convinced that lots of people can't tell a valid from an
> invalid argument anyway. Only nit-pickers care about that
> logic stuff.
I disagree with LM's contention that your argument is a straw-man, and I
believe you are right. Food safety concerns are driving the ag chemical
industry toward safe, well-targeted pesticides. Many are clearly safer than
classic natural products like rotenone. But I do think he has a point about
how much regard organic adherents have for rational arguments. I don't
believe that the driver in this movement is really safety, but a desire to
cohere to natural law. The food safety issue is more of a tool to incite to
action the masses, who don't care that much about natural law (or just
incite them to buy organic).
Dale
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