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Re: Pesticide Taxes






On 13 Nov 1996 bbbean@sheltonlink.com wrote:

> In <5680e0$33s@agate.berkeley.edu>, lhom@nature.berkeley.edu (Louis Hom) writes:
> >I overheard someone talking about revenues from pesticide taxes being used
> >to fund research for alternatives to pesticides -- but I don't know if they
> >were speaking hypothetically, or if something like this really exists or is
> >being planned.  Does anyone know?  
> 
> Although its not as direct as the proposal you discuss, you should 
> know that something akin to this already takes place with many crops 
> using "check-off" dollars ($ per bale/bushel/lb) to fund research 
> programs run by commodity production groups (Cotton Inc., Nat. Soybean
> Board, etc). While eliminating pesticides per se isn't the goal of 
> these organizations, effective and environmentally friendly production
> is.
> 
> BBB
> 
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> 
Hello,  I am new in the internet,do not exactly know how it works, but 
still I am very much interested to talk about your reply to the question 
of the pesticides taxes. I am wondering if the money for those taxes is 
only going to special fun research groups. I mean who decides which 
research group is the best one. Or could it happen that a new kind of 
dependence on those research fundation is created. I mean is a farmer no 
longer  independend.sorry that may english is very poor. I am studying 
agriculture in Berlin.
katja@map_1.iae.tu-berlin.de > 



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