Pesticide Peddlers Mad at Michelle Obama and her Garden!

[hnooe]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I guess they feel kids at a very young age need to learn more about the value of carcinegenic pollutants to our planet and our bodies...[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The pesticide peddlers are not happy with Michelle Obama.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We support organic gardening.[/FONT]http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=3305&id=3454-1831812-h7r75Zx&t=2​

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Tell the board members of MACA (virtually all of them big chemical executives) that we don't appreciate their telling Michelle Obama (or any of us) to use pesticides in our gardens. [/FONT]

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The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that — wait for it — Michelle Obama isn't using chemicals in her organic garden at the White House.
We are not making this up.
In an email they forwarded to their supporters, a MACA spokesman wrote, "While a garden is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made [us] shudder." MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals — or what they call "crop protection products" — in her garden.
Michelle Obama has done America a great service by publicizing the importance of nutritious food for kids (she's growing the garden in partnership with a local elementary school class) as well as locally grown produce as an important, environmentally sustainable food source.
MACA's letter is part of a larger propaganda effort to convince people that chemicals are a necessary part of produce growth — when we know that's not true.
Click here to tell the MACA board that we support Michelle Obama's organic garden, and we'll thank them to keep their propaganda out of it.
Thank you for working to build a more organic world.
Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager
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[Susan Horn]

You'd think with all the resources the poison makers have, they would catch on that the market is changing, and they'd get busy developing organic gardening products! Doesn't take a lot of R&D, it's old news how to do it without chemicals, and gardeners, farmers the world over have come up with gazillions of new ways to apply ancient wisdom around growing food.

Needless to say, I signed the petition. Thanks for posting this!

 

[30ashopper]

While it seems pretty silly to me that MACA would complain about Obama's garden being organic, I think it's also a little shortsighted to decry the work of the "pesticide peddlers". What's the deal with demonizing industry these days? Pesticides and genetically engineered crops have saved millions of lives over the years by putting food on the tables of starving families all over the world. Crops that can grow in areas of hardship and chemicals that make basic food stuffs cheap to produce are a good thing. God forbid we did something stupid like outlaw the use of these technologies - millions would suffer.

 

[elgordoboy]

While it seems pretty silly to me that MACA would complain about Obama's garden being organic, I think it's also a little shortsighted to decry the work of the "pesticide peddlers". What's the deal with demonizing industry these days? Pesticides and genetically engineered crops have saved millions of lives over the years by putting food on the tables of starving families all over the world. Crops that can grow in areas of hardship and chemicals that make basic food stuffs cheap to produce are a good thing. God forbid we did something stupid like outlaw the use of these technologies - millions would suffer.

Negative Population Growth

 

[30ashopper]

Negative Population Growth

Environmentalists who favor strong immigration policy. Strange mix!

 

[30A Skunkape]

This looks like carcinegenic(sic) phone company spam wrapped in a shiny green package:roll:

 

[hnooe]

Our "Easter" gift to God: We are slowly taking this planet back to normalcy, one pesticide, one bank, and one war at a time....

 

[30A Skunkape]

Our "Easter" gift to God: We are slowly taking this planet back to normalcy, one pesticide, one bank, and one war at a time....

Careful how you throw around that 'G' word and the implication that Easter acknowledges anything other than a day to feast on chocolate. Let me try to reset you:

Our spring-pagan-fertility-festival-usurped-by-the-Christians-in-order-to-convert-the-barbarians day gift to he whose name should be removed from the currency: We are slowly taking this planet back to normalcy, one pesticide, one bank, and one war at a time....

Happy Easter-go enjoy your 'new' dock!