On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:13:29 -0700, Tom Jaszewski
opined:


No Billoboy I never challenged your credentials. What I challenged
was your ability to review Monsanto and its policies given your close
proximity to it's funding. As religious as your fervor is to defend
Monsanto it's obvious to some here you have some sort of interest in
defending a first class bunch of chemical pukes, charlatans and liars.
Personally I'm glad educations of your level are functioning in the
capacity you are. Fact remains you don't know shit about gardening,
soil, soil biology, and the effects of herbicides. Science and real
peer reviewed research is horribly lacking as many mainstream
herbicides go. What those of us who are stewards of gardens clearly
see daily are the ill effects of the products you defend. Read some
research on the effects of roundupon soil biology. Last I checked the
foods we eat (those of us who eat grocery store nutrient lacking crap)
is grown in those damaged soils. Science defended DDT and good science
will reveal glyphosphate for what it is.

I have this funny feeling this is too much information for some to fully
process. I don't know how many ways there are to try and inform people that it
is not ONLY the use of glyphosate pesticides, but the mentality of those who
over use it, never read the labels and don't follow directions of use at all.

Very cleverly, Monsanto has marketed this crap with its own nozzle and tube
coming from the bottle. I wonder how many people just start to spray around
and I wonder how many perfectly healthy plants are now dead from the drift. I
wonder how many non-label-readers have used it on windy days.

That said, we were watching our DVD of "Bowling for Columbine," which was
delivered two days ago from our amazon shopping cart. Michael Moore put it so
much more eloquently than I could put it, but in essence he was saying of our
culture of fear and consumerism, what we are saying about the mentality of
people how use glyphosate improperly.

It's not the glyphosate, necessarily (though I contend it is a huge part) but
it's the very closed off way of thinking and lack on knowledge, compiled with
the great inability of many to think outside the box to see the much bigger
picture. I'm not sure I can articulate it here, or anywhere. All I can say is
that, in this life, I am glad I get it. There are many more people who don't
get it, who will most likely never get it. In order for me to live a better
life, I give it a good shot and have to let go of it. Nothing is forever.

Victoria