Where did I say anything about attacking conventional products?
If you want to eat conventional produce, you should have the choice.
However, I should also have the choice to eat organic food. Some people
are into biodynamic food cropping systems. They should have market access
as well. That is the way the free market system use to work.
The attacks we are seeing now are aimed at not even allowing us the right
to choose! With continued vertical intergration in the food industry, your
right to reject, GE or pesticide containing foods will not exist unless you
grow your own. Who say Big Brother, be he an elected government or
corporate government, knows what is best for me?
What I am talking about is:
a. responding to pseudo-scientific attacks used in this nation-wide,
multimillion dollar PR attack against organic food and the Precautionary
Principle.
b. rebuffing the cynical attempts to use the starving people in the world
as shills in the money game to control the world seed supply.
c. challenging the outright misrepresentation of CDC data to smear organic
foods and then when challanged by the CDC on the misrepresentation of their
data, to essentially say, "That YOUR interpertation."
This is not a fight between equals but it is a fight that can be won, if
you have the will to win!
Do you want to be able to choose the type of food you eat?
It is up to the organic community to call a spade a spade, expose the fraud
and the oligarchy behind these attacks. Mike Miller
>> If the Organic Industry is to survive, it has to have enough fire in its'
>> belly to stand up and call a lying sack of manure, a lying sack of manure.
>
>> This is not a fight about what is right or who is telling the truth. It
>> is a Propaganda War, period! You don't win wars by playing defense and
>> responding to the attacks of your opponents.
>
>Many in the organic industry have gotten a lot of mileage
>from smearing the conventional boys and when they get the
>same thing back many cry out it's unfair. This seems kind of
>hypocritical or at least egocentric.
>
>There's an old saying about what's good for the goose is
>good for the gander.
>
>If you want to play criticism and smear against the big boys
>then who's writing the rules and drawing first blood?
>
>If the organic marketing is so weak it can't stand on it's
>own feet then maybe it should look to building it's house on
>a good foundation rather than acting like a mosquito and
>getting sustenance out of big ag's blood.
>
>How about easily obtainable factual scientific information
>that ANYBODY can refer to showing organic is good? What's
>wrong with what's right about organic rather than trying to
>sell based on what's wrong with conventional?
>
>If one has to lower big ag to make a product look good then
>maybe the product isn't as high as one thinks it is or maybe
>one's salesmanship skills need improvement.
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