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Re: Attacks on organic researchers?
Donald Voth wrote:
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> 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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