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>If this is indeed the subtext, I find the approach of it strange. I think
>it's important to not think of this list like a fixed thing put out by a
>central body, but rather as an ongoing conversation by a group of people on
>a topic of interest. In that context, all sorts of people can pop up and
>contribute what they feel is relevant and interesting to the topic at hand,
>offering info or comments or asking questions, etc. Like any conversation,
>each person might not be interested in everything discussed, and can have a
>variety of responses to that (being judgemental, curious, stimulated,
>etc.). But also like a conversation - and perhaps even more so than an
>in-person conversation - you can participate in the conversation and help
>to shape it. If you want to talk about something else - you can just bring
>it up! The people who talk are the ones who create the conversation - by
>definition.
I find myself wondering more every day if the particular people on this lis
are people with whom I have anything to say or whose (censored) comments are
something I want cluttering up my mail box. Agriculture is rapidly
destroying several bases of life such as soil, water, air (dust and toxins),
habitat, etc. And we have some blankity blank person suggest a HYPOTHETICAL
problem to discuss and he is actually taken seriously. this is idiocy. It
is offensive. It is unrelated to the issues that make all agriculture as now
practiced unsustainable. If you don't have something useful to say about
real problems, don't make up some, please. This is brain pollution and it is
not sustainable.
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