Gregory Morrow wrote:
> JimLane wrote:
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>
>>Gregory Morrow wrote:
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>>>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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>>>cause
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2) Letting farmworkers do their job without exposure to poisons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>3) Reducing the environmental harm done by insecticides, fungicides,
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> and
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>>>>>>fertilizer runoff.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>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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>>>buy
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>>>
>>>>>into...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>kids."
>>>
>>>
>>>>So, what else is new?
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>>>
>>>
>>>Ummm...I won't be having any grandkids...???
>>>
>>>Hate to burst your idealistic bubble, but unless an individual is VERY
>>>wealthy or VERY powerful there is generally VERY little one can do
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> (outside
>
>>>of assassinating someone prominent) to change the course of Big
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> Things...
>
>>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.
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>
>
> Anyone who subscribes to that mantra must do a *lot* of running in place...
>
> I prefer this:
>
> "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and
> there are families.
>
> - Margaret Thatcher
>

Yep, there are goats and there are sheep. Which are you?


jim