Re: [pf] Risks, imposed or chosen

by Jill Taylor Bussiere

18 December 2000 14:03 UTC

To me, besides the issues of forced technology without adequate testing so
as to garner profits for already wealthy companies, there is another issue
that we struggle with in many areas:

We are continually fighting for local control and personal control on many
fronts.  Tommorrow night, our zoning board will be meeting about a proposed
cell phone tower.  This weekend, Ed Garvey represented the town of Addison
against a company that wants to install wind-turbines.  Ed Garvey, who ran
as a Democrat for governor a few years ago, and who spoke on behalf of Ralph
Nader at a rally in Madison (and who later spoke on behalf of Al Gore as the
pressure mounted and the race got very close) is very much in favor of
renewable energy, and always has been.  Yet, in this instance, a company and
the state were trying to shove plans down the throats of the locals, and
even though it was wind energy, he defended the town against the wind
turbines.  The same with Perrier - people have to fight very hard to have
control over their lives.

It is one thing if it is the government making a regulation/law for the
greater good, but another if it is for the good of a specific business.
                Jill

> Betsy Barnum wrote:
> > The trouble now is that a lot of people don't want GMOs in
> > their food, and have only tolerated it because they were uninformed. >
> > Why shouldn't they be allowed to choose GMO-free food...
>
> They are allowed to choose GM-free food.
>
> > ...and to expect the purveyprs of same to bear
> > the costs of separation, since the intermingling was done without
> > offering them the choice (unlike the organic separation and
> > labeling)?
>
> Why is anyone else required to offer you food on your terms? Jews don't
> require that food be labeled kosher, or Muslims that it be labeled
> Halal--they certify their own food.
>
> David