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Old 24-05-2009, 07:07 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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In article
. easynews.com,
Steve wrote:

On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:55:54 -0700, Billy
wrote:

In article
.easynews.com,
Steve wrote:

On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:49:23 -0700, Billy
wrote:

Good research Steve ;O)

Thanks, but it's always a matter of finding the money trail, as you
already know.


Which raises the question, what did you use for your search criteria?


Joseph A. Schwarcz subsidy
Joseph A. Schwarcz funding
Joseph A. Schwarcz advisory
McGill University Office for Science and Society
All of which were pretty much a dead end until
http://www.enviroblog.org/2008/08/
Scroll down and read: "Schwarcz declared EWG’s guide meaningless,
irrelevant, and said the amounts of pesticide on produce are too small
to worry about: "Where is the information that the level of pesticide
contamination that they're talking about has any relevance to humans?”

But when it comes to questions of pesticide safety, Schwarcz has a
clear conflict of interest.

The Office for Science and Society has been funded in part by the
Council for Biotechnology Information. The Council is an agricultural
industry front group whose members are Monsanto, DuPont, Dow
AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and BASF – all companies
with a vested interest in discrediting information about the health
risks of pesticides. Archived web pages for the Office of Science and
Society list the industry group as a supporter from 2003 until October
2007; now the website acknowledges only funding from “private
parties.”
That led to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://oss.mcgill.ca/
Opening the July 12, 2007
http://web.archive.org/web/200707121...oss.mcgill.ca/
and scrolling to the bottom produces:
OSS receives support from McGill University, The Lorne Trottier Family
Foundation, The Council for Biotechnology Information and private
donors.

© 2006 Department of Chemistry McGill University

That's your basic bingo, eh?


Good show. The good Dr. also shows up in a minor role at
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar.../26/The-Little
-Known-Secrets-about-Bleached-Flour.aspx

another scary read. Be sure to go in with Firefox and Noscripts on.

Apparently in his book, "That¹s The Way The Cookie Crumbles", Dr.
Schwarcz writes that aspartame is perfectly safe to consume - a verdict
contradicted by scores of independent studies, one that only the insane
could endorse.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En2TzBE0lp4

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050688.html