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To: haqihana who wrote (49813)	5/1/2000 6:45:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

haqihana, Croc is one of the finest people around here, and she is an ag pro. I think it's important to remember that ag chemicals, like chainsaws and tractors, are tools. Dangerous if imprudently applied, but to characterize them as evil is imo simplistic. Used right they are boons. Recently developed pesticides and weed killers are designed to have short persistence in the ecosphere, and the breakdown products are innocuous. (As far as we know.) (But our methods for determining such a thing are MILES ahead of what we had in the 50s.) If you ask me (and I concede you didn't, but I'm adding my $.02 anyway) advocating a complete abstinence from ag chemicals is impractical. There HAVE been some dramatic excesses in over-reliance on Better Farming thru Chemistry, but trying to grow food for a billion people (and the USA does just that) without any help from ag chem products is a recipe for repeated famine. I know that it is popular to blame Chemicals for a wide range of ills. But I think it is naive to do so, and anyone after Thoreau has relied to some extent on the products of the chem industry. I get my paycheck from a pharma company, so the PR acceptance of fine chemistry is of interest to me. Where did the "no chemicals!" ideology come from? What does it serve, and what are its goals? "Armchair thinkers" for your consideration.

To: haqihana who wrote (49813)	5/1/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

~H~ I hate saying anything about stuff like this. But you;re new to the thread and maybe you haven't picked up on the overriding rule here. We like each other, and we are polite. We may screw up occasionally, but for the most part, everyone gets along well, and if there is a bad day, it's usually apologized for, and forgotten. A public post is just that. If you want only Cobe to read something and no one else, then send a PM. Otherwise, we figure it's all our business. We love it here because it IS a free for all, and there are no factions.

To: haqihana who wrote (49813)	5/1/2000 6:58:00 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

haqihana, the post was addressed to Crocodile, and the message was addressed to CB ... To: Crocodile who wrote (49790) From: haqihana CB, Pesticides, and herbicides, are mankind's insult to nature. ~H~ Confusing at best as to whom you were speaking. In any event, no need for such a nasty response to Croc.