Re: [Biofuel] Message In A Bottle

2008-04-18 Thread Kirk McLoren
s to end, and what's going to be most effective is a ban on those plastics." Not surprisingly, this isn't anything close to what the billion-dollar plastics industry has in mind. In comments made to both the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle in the last

[Biofuel] Message In A Bottle

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.gtweekly.com/good-times/message-in-a-bottle-1 Message In A Bottle Written by Amanda Martinez Wednesday, 19 March 2008 Trash twice the size of the continental United States is collecting in the North Pacific, but here's the kicker: most of it is made to last forever. One sunny d

[Biofuel] Wow! (was Re: World agriculture report)

2008-04-18 Thread Chip Mefford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everybody! Look! Debate and discussion, happening right here! Thanks to all of you who are posting, replying, adding your thoughts, arguing and all that. For the rest of you, Hey look at the fun we're having, Come on, jump in, the water's fin

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Chip Mefford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Addison wrote: |> Chris Burck wrote: |> | and they're pulling out all the stops to make sure they're the 'last |> | man standing.' berry puts it very well. sadly, the "general public" |> | (here in the industrialized north, at least) for the mo

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
>Chris Burck wrote: >| and they're pulling out all the stops to make sure they're the 'last >| man standing.' berry puts it very well. sadly, the "general public" >| (here in the industrialized north, at least) for the most part fails >| to understand that capitalism's raison d'etre is as a means

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/1527 Food First Policy Brief No.12 Posted October 20th, 2006 Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa By Eric Holt-Gim

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
From "Seeds of Destruction: The Geopolitics of GM Food", WILLIAM ENGDAHL / Current Concerns (Zurich) n.5, 6mar2005 http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2005/Geopolitics-GM-Food6mar05.htm ... Before the end of the decade, if present trends continue, US global dominance will be based on control of the foo

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Chip Mefford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Burck wrote: | and they're pulling out all the stops to make sure they're the 'last | man standing.' berry puts it very well. sadly, the "general public" | (here in the industrialized north, at least) for the most part fails | to understand tha

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
>and they're pulling out all the stops to make sure they're the 'last >man standing.' berry puts it very well. sadly, the "general public" >(here in the industrialized north, at least) for the most part fails >to understand that capitalism's raison d'etre is as a means to power. >this is why they

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
Two major industrial members of the assessment coalition Monsanto & Syngenta (member corporations of the agriculture-industry body CropLife International) have withdrawn from the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) project. According to the s

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Burck
and they're pulling out all the stops to make sure they're the 'last man standing.' berry puts it very well. sadly, the "general public" (here in the industrialized north, at least) for the most part fails to understand that capitalism's raison d'etre is as a means to power. this is why they are

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chip >from the panna site: > >http://www.panna.org/jt/agAssessment#futureoffood > >Titled: The future of food and farming debate in Johannesburg concludes > >I think this is where some of us really get quite fed >up with projects such as this. While -on one hand- I feel >really good that these

Re: [Biofuel] World agriculture report

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Burck
no doubt about that (corporate disregard for the general public welfare), chip. what i find most rankling is the "he said/she said" bs. tossing in a blip about one party's/player's stance, whether in their words or paraphrasing them (to whit: ". . .who say that their. . .products are not adequat