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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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