Re: NEWS: Europe tightens GM labelling rules

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 00:17:26 MDT


Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
>>
>>I don't see how astrology has anything to do with the food I am buying.
>
>
> The average consumer believes astrology more than astronomers, and
> organic hippie farmers more than geneticists. They think astrology is a
> science with an accuracy somewhere upward of the weatherman. The fact
> that it is dippy hippy left wingers who have promoted the twin idiocies
> of astrology AND GM-phobia in the last 20 years should be no surprise or
> coincidence. They are both based on ignorance, fear, and stupid
> gullibility bordering on the mentally retarded, just the sort of
> electorate that socialists need to get into and keep power.

Your sneering belittling style of posting does wonders to get
across what you really want to say. Why don't you give it a
rest? You know, like chill, relax, have a brewski.

>
> Harvey talks about how untrustworthy the Fortune 500 is, yet he also
> claims a) that the government is equally as untrustworthy, based on his
> experience in computer security, yet b) he wants to empower the
> untrustworthy government to keep tabs on the untrustworthy Fortune 500
> and force them to label all their products however his buddies on the
> left want them done. Please tell me how this is supposed to be a)
> reassuring, b) logical, and c) in any way to be considered a rational
> means of running things.
>

Please tell us what you propose instead.

- samantha



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