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Re: Tone of messages



Some things that were considered "faddist" twenty years ago:
	Organic farming
	any connection between diet and cancer
	the possibility that eating locally might actually be attractive
		to anyone but a fanatic
	limits to growth of anything (Simon still considers this faddist,
		but what the hell)
All of us should be deeply modest about what we KNOW.
A happy lurker. Eat locally
	
	On Thu, 5 Dec
1996, Frederick R. Magdoff wrote:

>     
>  	I am very sorry for the nasty tone that some recent messages have 
> had. It seems to me that the purpose of SANet is for people to exchange 
> ideas. Some ideas may appear kind of "off the wall" to others. But keep 
> in mind that it was not that long ago that "sustainabale agriculture" was 
> also considered a pretty crazy idea by many people. In fact, especially 
> for those of you on graze-l, it was not that long ago that the very idea 
> that you could profitably use the pasture resource for commercial milk 
> production was considered by most people (farmers, extension, and 
> researchers) to be close to insane. 
>      It is clear that the people sending these messages are not 
> interested in rational discourse on the issues, but rather with letting 
> people know how upset they are. I suggest that we ignore the more 
> unpleasant messages and move on to other issues.
> 
> FRED
> 
> PLEASE NOTE: new email address---    fmagdoff@zoo.uvm.edu
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