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2506 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130502630bf50a51f4@[128.112.70.90]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >... there is a piece in today's Wall Street Journal that reports on a new >peer-reviewed study that finds GM plants >could well >some >might > The peer-reviewed laboratory study, which is being published >in today's issue of the science magazine Nature, >signals >some >might Well, that's pretty copper-bottomed, then. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Fri Aug 13 12:09:22 PDT 1999

2507 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

Continuing my daily bulletin against the Kulak class, I note that organic farming is responsible for eight per cent of all E-Coli cases in the US, while contributing just one per cent of the US food market. Unlike GM food, E-Coli is a proven killer. In message <199908130720.QAA29303 at violet.sun-net.ne.jp>, Brian Small <bjsmalld at sun-net.ne.jp> writes > >Jim Heartfield wrote something about the farmer not getting his products >sold due to the good will of consumers. Banke ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 13 02:37:59 PDT 1999

2508 Afterthought /Re: Hoskins on CM/ -- rank: 1000

In message <00e201bee4e3$d5add140$0f4fefd1 at default>, elena <spectra at rousse.bg400.bg> writes >Reminds me of Lysenko in the USSR (and Michourin and Co). It now seems >absurd that they wanted to make hybrids between a pig and a mushroom (or >almost), should I say anecdotal (like Michourin dying after a fall from a >poplar tree where he had climbed to pick some dill). But Lysenko's theory >was used to justify the assumption that conditions are more important than > ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 10:53:25 PDT 1999

2509 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, I did some work researching a television programme, a round-table discussion on GM food, so I'm fairly up on the science - as much as any lay-person might be. And I have to say, from my reading, every single story so far has been a scare story. 'Biodiversity' itself is a questionable category. What does one mean by it exactly? Is it a natural law, or a human aspiration? Does nature care whether it is diverse or not? Are we really in a position to frustrate or impose it? If you are saying ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 10:25:17 PDT 1999

2510 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <01ac01bee4b8$eff0be80$5419050a at jofix2>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >Jim wrote: >> In the UK, like much of Europe, policy (governmental and EU) heavily >> subsidises all farmers, but especially smaller ones, shielding them from >> market pressures. >Jim, >do you have any evidence for your claim that the EU subsidies especially the >small farmers? I got the immagination bigger farmers benefit more from EU >s ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 06:31:59 PDT 1999

2511 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <37B23A0E.A0B159C4 at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes > >Small farms' inefficiency in the U.S. has a lot to do with their lack of market >power. They pay more for inputs and get less for their products. In addition, >university research systems for decades have catered to the needs of large >farmers. Or put another way small farms' lack of market power has a lot to do with their inefficiency. Economies of scale ar ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 04:20:11 PDT 1999

2512 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

I did suggest Pat Buchanan, which at least puts me in the right congregation. So what does it mean? You could say 'the Pope is more left-wing that we thought'. Or you could say 'looking at the texts, they're not as left wing as they appear'. But I would say 'left-wing ideas are not as problematic for the status quo as they used to be'. In particular, I would say that the issue of social inequality is not as dangerous a one as it used to be. That's because the working classes are relatively quies ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 01:12:09 PDT 1999

2513 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <v04003a01b3d72f37c042@[209.54.19.101]>, Eric Beck <rayrena at accesshub.net> writes >So it's fruitless to hope for and strive toward less work? By this logic >the fight for the eight-hour day was just a wasteful, capital-strengthening >exercise. The push for living wages, and strikes, wildcat and organized, as >well. > >I see what you are saying: it's a shame that we have resigned ourselves to >suffering at capital's mercy and settled for piecemeal re ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 09:53:50 PDT 1999

2514 crash! war! -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210100b3d7262cace2@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Market astrologer Arch Crawford was just on CNBC. He expects wars to >break out along the path of Augusst 11's eclipse - a path that >includes the Balkans, Turkey, India, and Pakistan - and a 1,000 point >decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average sometime in the next two >weeks. Well I am afraid to report that in London, mostly people hung around in a park, saying 'do you ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 07:25:44 PDT 1999

2515 Darwin -- rank: 1000

In message <s7b026ad.016 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > >Charles: This "effective dissolution of the philosophy of metaphysic as stasis" >or dialectics had already been accomplished by Hegel, Marx and Engels. Darwin >wasn't fully conscious of the philosophical aspect. I rate Hegel very highly, but essentially Darwin is the more important thinker. The point is that Hegel's dissolution of metaphysics remains a ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 02:07:26 PDT 1999

2516 Paleoconservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9908102209550.3601-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > Adorno's cultural theory is nothing more the >reasseration of Deep Kultur versus Shallow Zivilization. There is nothing >progressive about such elitism; it is diametically opposed to your own >views on art or culture as you've expressed them in lbo-talk; and it's got >nothing to do with the Left. Or, to be generous, it's not distinctive to >the ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 00:40:20 PDT 1999

2517 the social change thing. -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, I'm looking at this puzzle you quoted. The answer to the question 'how much' is not an either/or. For simple human reproduction (setting aside the moral and historical component) the 'amount' of consumption goods is a physical amount. In the simplified model, you can only eat so much bread. But it does not follow that the value representation of those commodities thereby becomes inconsequential. The consumption goods must take the form of commodities - if they did not they could never fi ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 09:20:35 PDT 1999

2518 Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

I'm guessing that it's somebody bizarre that you would never guess would say such things, like, I dunno, Pay Buchanan. But I can't think of anyone so I would say it was closest to Anthony Giddens, at least in the first quote (though less in the third) but then he's not famous enough. How about Roberto Unger? In message <02d701bee2cf$3503c620$b2f38482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >Pop quiz. These words are by a famous living thinker. Can you name him ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 09:23:54 PDT 1999

2519 the social change thing -- rank: 1000

>From: kelley <kcwalker at syr.edu> I enjoyed this account of anthropology and sociology from Kelley. But I wonder if the dichotomy early (bad) anthropology, later (good) anthropology works. It is often argued that the early is bad because it loads preconceptions onto the people being studied, where the later is aware of its limitations. Kelley points out that the early explorers imposed a model of progressive development (like Morgan). But isn't it also the case that the later anthropo ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 02:24:58 PDT 1999

2520 Brown Stuff and CPJapan -- rank: 1000

In message <199908081406.XAA20562 at violet.sun-net.ne.jp>, Brian Small <bjsmalld at sun-net.ne.jp> writes >Re:Brown Stuff > > Are there any ecologists that posters to this list like? I like Murray Bookchin's book 'Re-enchanting Humanity'. He is professor of social ecology somewhere. He does a very good critique of Heidegger and other anti-humanist views. > Why is it so hard to imagine that a lot of people might enjoy making a >living by growing food? I sup ...

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