>Jim wrote:
>>Some members speak as if they were paid by
>>not-for-profit environmental corporations for promotion of their goals
>>indeed. Even if they don't they feed these environmental corporations with
>>'academically' laced arguments.
>
>John responded:
>I am not sure what the sentence fragment is saying here. The use of the
>phrase 'as if' implies that they are not speaking out on behalf of ENGOS, so
>I quess you would need to supply some form of reference where you obtained
>this idea. These kinds of statements are the form of 'fear mongering' that
>we all hate. The implication is that there are people that communicate on
>this list that are less than sincere, less than intelligent, and simply like
>to rant rhetoric from some unnamed ENGOs is what I hear here from Jim. But I
>have no evidence of this from this list.
John, thanks for helping me make my point.
The paragraph above is almost a direct quotation of a portion of
Maria-Stella Aloupie's original 24 June post, which outlined a pretty
farfetched conspiracy theory involving certain UNNAMED individuals who
happen to post to this list <grin>, although I wouldn't begin to know whom
she is talking about. Perhaps you could help me figure that out, John (see
e.g. http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/enviroethics/2000-06/0157.html ).
Here is Maria-Stella's original paragraph in full:
>I think it was through this list that i read what is Monsanto doing right
>now
>to a US farmer: The farmer has found GM rape in his rape field (he was
>breeding rape for 30 years). He sued Monsanto. Then Monsanto sued him for
>"stealing" "their" rape and claimed all his harvest value. The farmer said
>that beside his field GM rape seed is flying around by the tones, due to
>the wind, when the fields are sown.
>Then, "accidentally", GM rape is forced to be "by mistake" sown to Europe,
>in the hope perhaps that once Europeans suspect that now the GM genes can
>be anywhere and there is no point in stopping GMO farming, their
>resistance
>will cease. What is this if not ecoterrorism, and where are the comments
>from this list? Some members speak as if they were paid by corporations
>for promotion of their goals indeed. Even if they don't they feed
>corporations with 'academically' laced arguments
thanks John,
Jim T.
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