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JimLane
 
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> JimLane wrote:
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>>Gregory Morrow wrote:
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>>>Peter Aitken wrote:
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>>>>You really don't know the point of organic? There are three:
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>>>>1) Not eating insecticides, fungicides, and other chemicals that may

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>>>>problems.
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>>>>2) Letting farmworkers do their job without exposure to poisons.
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>>>>3) Reducing the environmental harm done by insecticides, fungicides, and
>>>>fertilizer runoff.
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>>>In the grand scheme of things I really don't care about any of that
>>>stuff...it's akin to the "Recycling is GOOD" mantra that a lot of folx

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>>And you seem to be akin to the "screw the earth, I won't be around to
>>see the repercussions of the fuc+ked up earth I'll leave to my grand

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>>So, what else is new?

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> Ummm...I won't be having any grandkids...???
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> Hate to burst your idealistic bubble, but unless an individual is VERY
> wealthy or VERY powerful there is generally VERY little one can do (outside
> of assassinating someone prominent) to change the course of Big Things...
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Hate to pop your bubble but masses of people can and you get that mass
one person at a time. Like that infamous journey, one step at a time.


jim