Re: BIOTECH: BT resistant Monarch Butterflies?

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 18:18:27 MDT


On Wednesday 04 September 2002 16:09, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>...
> In fact, while the bug huggers were railing against bt corn, the real
> forces of anti-environmentalism started logging in the mountaintops
> where the monarchs mate in Mexico.... and the Monarchs are now
> threatened by development far more severely than the bt corn
> threatened, yet we are not seeing the bug huggers going ape nearly as
> much, primarily because they know that the Mexican government and
> people doesn't give nearly as much of a damn as the US people do.
>
> It's the same reason why the environmentalism movement is nearly
> non-existent in those countries who have the real worst environmental
> records.
>
> Deliberately distorting science for political agenda happens all of the
> time,

All correct up to here

> especially on the left, and especially in the luddite movement.

Sorry. All political stripes seem to do this with equal lack of regard for
the truth.

> To claim otherwise is a sign of a hidden agenda and, dare we say, a
> conspiracy... ;)
>...
??? That's a rather wierd claim. I would be interested in knowing how you
could justify it.



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