Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (171098)	8/13/2001 9:46:33 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Peter Rossett...."When an industry is competitive-when there are many companies producing similar products, each with a small market share-consumers have a better shot at getting what they need and want, and government regulators are less likely to be in the pockets of giant conglomerates. But when oligopolies or monopolies achieve preeminent positions in the market, they can unilaterally raise prices and cut costs, allowing quality to deteriorate because consumers are captive-they have no choice. And the windfall profits that accrue to dominant market positions make it possible-and necessary to protect those profits-to influence regulators through the revolving door between government and industry, campaign contributions and outright payoffs. As the bottom line supersedes concerns for safety, the environment, and consumer needs, accidents (intentional or not) happen. We need only remember the toxic spills and superfund sites left by chemical conglomerates or the oil spills caused by negligent oil companies to understand this principle. The same process of economic concentration in the food system also breeds the exclusion of those too poor to be a 'market,' and so is a prime driving force behind hunger the world over. 19 As the food industry becomes as concentrated as the chemical and petroleum industries, we see similar phenomena cropping up more often. Whether it is Alar on apples, or food poisoning outbreaks from fast food hamburgers, corporate power and negligence with new technologies-farm chemicals in one case and factory farming in the other-is increasingly putting our food supply at risk and our federal regulators to sleep. GE foods have entered our diet without any significant pre-market testing being mandated by FDA, EPA or USDA.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (171098)	8/13/2001 9:53:42 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It is you pin heads that have created factory farms. You wanted dairy farming on the coasts and not concentrated in the middle. You began your social engineering that has rid us of the family farms and it's economy in the mid west and created factory farms in CA. But worse then that you have the gall to put this crap up in cyber space as if this is a George Bush problem. You should stick with writing about something you know about. If you did that it would eliminate 98% of your posts.