Wilson, Dale wrote:
> Ted,
>
> 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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