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Re: Attacks on organic researchers?



Donald Voth wrote:
> 
> This issue is, in fact, far broader than the fate of organic researchers.
> In the Land Grant system, at least, it goes to the very roots of what the
> system ought to be doing, publicly funded as it is.  As I understand it,
> it was founded to serve the people--most of whom, at the time, were both
> rural and farmers.  It seems to be almost unanimously accepted now that
> the Land Grant system exists to serve the "Agricultural Industry."  That's
> a far cry from the objectives of the founders, and increasingly difficult
> to justify.  D. Voth

What do you expect?  They put their money in the system and if they are 
providing 90 or 100% of the funding whose wheel is goning to get greased?
Untill the public starts paying for the research, it will be tilted.




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