[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Roundup information
- To: sustag@sunsite.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Roundup information
- From: unc-cs!news-relay.ncren.net!newsgate.duke.edu!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net! (Colin Shaw)
- Date: 06 May 1997 08:16:50 GMT
- Organization: MidNet, Coventry UK
- Reply-To: c.shaw@midnet.com
- Sender: london@sunsite.unc.edu
Mark Forhan,forhan@mbnet.mb.ca,Internet writes:
>I believe in sustainable agriculture which by definition would involve
>reduced and careful usage of man made organic compounds.
Now there is the biggest contradiction I have seen for a while.
How can the use of 'man made organic compounds' produce
sustainable agriculture? Sustainable for who, the chemical
companies? I think you should check on just what 'sustainable'
means in this context.
>Of all the chemical (as opposed to 'organic') controls out there for
>weeds, I put it to you that Roundup is the lesser of the evils for large
>scale commercial weed control.
I am pleased that you see the use of Roundup as an evil, and IMHO
it is not a 'necessary' one at all.
Follow-Ups:
- Re: Roundup information
- From: unc-cs!news-relay.ncren.net!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eng.convex.com!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13
- Re: Roundup information
- From: newsgate.duke.edu!news.eng.convex.com!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.@ultra150.ncren.net