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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (2253)	7/6/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

For Australia, the BT cotton means lower pesticide use, but not a lot else. Yet in other places, like China, it also means higher yields and higher profits for farmers, according to other accounts. This is probably because in China, they have trouble getting pesticide at all, and infestations were more widespread. Now, a Chinese farmer won't have that problem, since there are some guarantees against insects when he or she plants, at a known cost... Interesting, then, how the BT cotton may benefit the third-world farmer MORE than the the Australian farmer. This is not what they have been saying in Europe. But then again, Europe is a big food-fascist joke. Re: Picking cotton for genes closes zipper on pesticides Sydney Morning Herald, 07/05/99 smh.com.au:80/news/9907/05/text/national3.html