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31-10-2003, 01:22 PM
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compost heap question Organic and Planet Friendly
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31-10-2003, 05:02 PM
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compost heap question Organic and Planet Friendly
"Steve Harris" wrote in message ... In article , rted [snip] It would be helpful to ditch the term "organic" as applied to gardening and instead talk about "Planer Friendly". Hear hear. That is in effect what I have been yammering about. Use only chemicals and mechanical processes which appear to be beneficient and cease using any one of them as soon as there is scientific evidence that there might be significant deleterious consequences from its use. Franz |
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31-10-2003, 05:22 PM
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compost heap question Organic and Planet Friendly
"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
... "Steve Harris" wrote in message ... In article , rted [snip] It would be helpful to ditch the term "organic" as applied to gardening and instead talk about "Planer Friendly". Hear hear. That is in effect what I have been yammering about. Use only chemicals and mechanical processes which appear to be beneficient and cease using any one of them as soon as there is scientific evidence that there might be significant deleterious consequences from its use. That would involve logic rather than emotion. Unlikely to work with those who believe (for example) that its good to kill insects indiscriminately with something like soap solution, but bad to kill only aphids with something designed and tested for that purpose. Or that copper sulphate and lime is acceptable to spray on grapes, but not a fungicide thats been tested to be safe, and is demonstrably safer than the chemicals found naturally in many food plants. Or that adding Vitamin A to rice via GM is evil, but it wouldnt be evil if you accomplished the same thing by selective breeding. -- Tumbleweed Remove theobvious before replying (but no email reply necessary to newsgroups) |
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31-10-2003, 09:43 PM
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compost heap question Organic and Planet Friendly
"Tumbleweed" wrote in message .. . "Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Steve Harris" wrote in message ... In article , rted [snip] It would be helpful to ditch the term "organic" as applied to gardening and instead talk about "Planer Friendly". Hear hear. That is in effect what I have been yammering about. Use only chemicals and mechanical processes which appear to be beneficient and cease using any one of them as soon as there is scientific evidence that there might be significant deleterious consequences from its use. That would involve logic rather than emotion. Unlikely to work with those who believe (for example) that its good to kill insects indiscriminately with something like soap solution, but bad to kill only aphids with something designed and tested for that purpose. Or that copper sulphate and lime is acceptable to spray on grapes, but not a fungicide thats been tested to be safe, and is demonstrably safer than the chemicals found naturally in many food plants. Or that adding Vitamin A to rice via GM is evil, but it wouldnt be evil if you accomplished the same thing by selective breeding. A nice summary of my stance as well. Franz |
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