Tone of messages

Frederick R. Magdoff (fmagdoff@zoo.uvm.edu)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 07:51:19 -0500 (EST)


I am very sorry for the nasty tone that some recent messages have
had. It seems to me that the purpose of SANet is for people to exchange
ideas. Some ideas may appear kind of "off the wall" to others. But keep
in mind that it was not that long ago that "sustainabale agriculture" was
also considered a pretty crazy idea by many people. In fact, especially
for those of you on graze-l, it was not that long ago that the very idea
that you could profitably use the pasture resource for commercial milk
production was considered by most people (farmers, extension, and
researchers) to be close to insane.
It is clear that the people sending these messages are not
interested in rational discourse on the issues, but rather with letting
people know how upset they are. I suggest that we ignore the more
unpleasant messages and move on to other issues.

FRED

PLEASE NOTE: new email address--- fmagdoff@zoo.uvm.edu

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