Re: Re: POLITICS - Adjudicating Pollution Disputes (purpose of this thread)

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In a message dated 3/2/2005 12:08:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,

implode7@... writes:

this list is becoming a haven for right wing political extremists. It is

enough to make me start to question the correctness behind its nutrtional

premises. What is it about NT that seems to inspire such pro corporate

nastiness? I

dunno. I'm very disillusioned with this list right now.

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[Chris]

I'd like to point out that the original intent of this thread was very

food-related. It was initiated by a comment about how issues of food safety

could be addressed, since environmental issues affect the quality of our food.

This is an important question to this list and our movement and deserves our

attention. We do not eat in a vacuum, but live, develop, and eat our food

within a greater system where we interact with individuals, businesses, and

governments, all of whom affect our food in some way, sometimes through

voluntary interactions, and sometimes involuntary interactions (pollution and

pasteurization laws are both examples of the latter.)

Clearly the current system is not working. What's the solution? To make

environmental restrictions stronger? To wage class action suits against

producers of GE foods that are polluting organic foods and making their

products

unsaleable? Are there any unworkable aspects or inadvertently reached problems

with either approach? Are there other approaches we haven't thought of yet?

Unfortunately this discussion went on some considerable tangents and also

got hijacked to become a discussion about the morality of some people which

further distracts from the point. But it isn't an irrelevant thread, as Miriam

had suggested.

Chris