Oops! Did this come across as MY message? I was supposed to be forwarding
it for Mary Jane Patterson of Alternatives Journal.
Let me know if it is not clear that Ms. Patterson is discussing her journal,
its contents, and how to order a copy.
Pat
P.S. to JT -- gee, that's not how the situation is being reported in the
totally objective U.S. press. Oh, no, not at all. Seems the nasty EU is
throwing more trade barriers our way and bestowing trade preferences on the
Caribbean countries. Tsk, tsk, too bad you can't get good, objective
reporting in your part of the world.....
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 2:59 PM
Subject: Tropical fruit and biodiversity
> At 2:55 pm -0400 14/4/99 Patricia Ruggiero wrote:
> a) Bitter Fruit: our consumption of tropical fruit delivers soil
erosion,
> a) Bitter Fruit: our consumption of tropical fruit delivers soil erosion,
> deforestation, and loss of biodiversity to Southern producers. By Asoka
> Mendis and Caroline Van Bers.
Mmm. There's a huge controversy going on in Europe because the US is trying
to twist the EU's arm to make us buy bananas from huge South American farms
run by multinationals where rain forests used to be, instead of from family
homesteads in the Caribbean islands, as we do now.
Or at least that's the way it's reported in the totally objective European
media ;) - JTT
Ah yes, it's our government-controlled neo-socialist press. They also
insist that Europeans should have the right to refuse GM foods, which is
ticking off the American free trade lobby big time (note fluent use of
americanisms, won through care and study ;) - JTT
Refusing GM foods! Don't you folks know what's good for you? What do you
mean, separating GM soy from regular soy? What do you mean, labeling?
Don't you know how expensive it would be for our poor, struggling farmers to
have to do all that???!!
Am I correct in understanding that Austria and Luxembourg passed laws
banning the import of GM foods? Hooray for their taking this stand, but I
am confused and concerned -- don't EU laws take precedence over the laws of
member states? If so, how long can Austria and Luxembourg hold out?
Pat
P.S. Yeah, like you're getting, you know, the jargon down right.
Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: Tropical fruit and biodiversity
the
Asoka
> Mendis and Caroline Van Bers.
> Mmm. There's a huge controversy going on in Europe because the US is
trying
> to twist the EU's arm to make us buy bananas from huge South American
farms
> run by multinationals where rain forests used to be, instead of from
family
> homesteads in the Caribbean islands, as we do now.
> Or at least that's the way it's reported in the totally objective
European
