Re: Fwd: Re: Speaking of "Toxic Palouse"

[Dave Willard <dwillard@turbonet.com>]

Malcolm Renfrew may have written:
>Here is an AMEN for the message by Judi Thompson that supports the
>responsible use of pesticides and aerial application in the Palouse. 

How can you call poisoning your neighbors (and your customers for that
matter) responsible????????

>The people who are applying them have families living in this area, and
>they do not do things that will be harmful to people. 

Yes they do! Of course they don't want to, or intend to, but nevertheless
they ARE doing things which are very harmful to people (and themselves). 

>Such measures are
>needed to supply good food that is free of natural toxic substances at an
>economically realistic price in large quantity.    Malcolm Renfrew
>

So you are saying you have to apply artificial toxic substances in order to
reduce natural toxic substances????  What natural toxic substances are you
talking about?  

There are many organic farms which survive quite well (they would survive
even better if the other farmers weren't screwing up the ecosystem), they
provide food that is truly good (i.e. not low level poison in disguise). And
if you count the hidden costs of the current system (like most cancer
treatments among others) then it's much cheeper to grow food without these
chemicals.

Peace

Dave