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To: Lane3 who wrote (3400)10/18/2001 9:11:40 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 51735
 
ROFL
" With our psyche, all Osama would have to do is spray Alar on our apples. "

I think it is simply too tempting to the news media to use this as infotainment. US consumers love to be scared. We have always bought magazines that scared us about all sorts of things. We've bought into being scared about immunizations. We've bought being scared of slight residues on our foods. It ought to be really easy to scare us with a real threat- and we are primed for it, and we already have built an industry that thrives on scaring us.



To: Lane3 who wrote (3400)10/18/2001 11:37:40 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 51735
 
Meryl Streep was on TV during the Alar scare years ago. She got me so alarmed, I actually sent in money. I mean, Meryl Streep. She wouldn't lie to me.

And then I read that the poor apple growers were going bankrupt and they were so pitiful on TV saying their apples were safe, that I rushed out, consumed by guilt, and bought tons of apples.

Somehow my children survived my mothering techniques.


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