From: The president taps an exec from the pesticide lobby --which
slammed Michelle Obama's organic garden -- for a top agriculture
post. by Kate Sheppard
> Siddiqui's.... response was vague. "I am a true believer in all
> processes, systems, whether using conventional means or organic, and I
> will do my best in terms of representing all these interests in
> promoting agriculture exports of both organic as well as
> conventionally grown products,"
Right. And a Happy Meal is conventional nutrition, air travel is
conventional travel and television is conventional communication.
There's a name for this rhetorical card trick but I forget what it is.
C. H. Waddington abbreviated "Conventional Wisdom of the Dominant
Group" as COWDUNG. [Tools for Thought, 1977]
- Mike
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