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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill Uranium occurs in nature too. Do you want that added to your food? No? It used to be added to pottery glaze, which ended up in your food, which ended up in your gut. The point of organic farming is to avoid artificial substances that weren't there when the human being was first designed by nature (or God, whichever your personal ideology believes), to avoid ingesting things that are either poisonous or out-of-spec from the original design. Personally, I like eating all sorts of things that are quite bad for your health -- bacon, Necco wafers, and juicy corn-fed cows come to mind -- but I do respect the right of others to do business and eat food as they see fit. I do wish everyone would drop the "railroads were there first so they have carte blanche to do whatever they feel like" mantra. That philosophy is very dangerous; if you take it to it's next logical step, we'll be giving Native Americans the right to set up their lodges in back yards and cutting down our ornamental shrubs for firewood, followed by the Native Americans arguing among themselves that it's really the Athabaskans who own everything because they were the first across the Bering Land Bridge, etc. Besides, when the C&NW's predecessor reached Council Bluffs in 1867, there were plenty of farmers already in Iowa, so on its own facts the statement is false. [/quote] Mark- While I don't entirely disagree with you I would respectfully point out that a number of Native American tribes are indeed trying to take back lands with tribal land claims. In New York State there are several that have been going for decades. I think the only way they will be settled is if the tribes get rights to more Casinos so they can earn the money to buy the land back. On that score check out the situation in Oneida County, New York where sales tax recently hit a statewide high of 10% as property taxes are not high enough to support local services due in large part to the purchase of massive tracts of land by the Oneidas funded by their Turning Stone Casino. As far as the railroads being there first, it certainly doesn't give the UP or any other railroad the right to contaminate areas off their right of way. I'm still amused by the organic farmer as he reminds me of my youth when, as a young lad, my college professor father used to take me to "all the good campus riots" in the late 60s and early 70s as a "learning experience". I am still bummed that I missed the "Free Love"... LC
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