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Sixth Street CSA-
Community Supported Agriculture
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22nd, 2002 |
 CSA
Farm Trip - Saturday October 26
This Saturday,
October 26 we'll be heading up to Catalpa Ridge Farm in Sussex
County, New Jersey for our annual fall work visit and picnic .
It's always lots of fun and we'll get to see how Rich Sisti is
doing. For those who joined after August, Rich provided our CSA
with vegetables for six seasons. He ran into some problems this
year so we switched to Hepworth Farm. His heirloom tomaotes, herbs
and other "specialty items" have contributed much to the popularity
of our CSA.
We'll be leaving at 8:30am from Sixth Street Community Center
and returning abount 7:00pm. The cost is $20 round-trip with a
discount for children. Bring food to share if you can. There's
a sign-up sheet to register or give
Howard or Annette a call at (212) 677-1863.
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FISH
DELIVERY
Wild Alaskan
king, sockeye and coho salmon, halibut, cod and rockfish now available!
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Genetic
Engineering - Don't Believe The Hype!
from Brian
Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology
The myth of
GE as a 'solution' to environmental pollution has been around since
the 1970s, and there has yet to be one GE organism that can perform
'bioremediation' better than naturally occurring organisms can.
I can cite a dozen or more articles going back 25 years claiming
that some particular GE bacterium, GE tree or GE plant was going
to clean up oil spills, mercury pollution, and now arsenic. Every
one of them has been a waste of research money at best; scientific
fraud at worst.
One of these
frauds, a plan for a GE oil-eating bacterium patented by the General
Electric company, was the object of the 1980 Supreme Court decision
that for the first time in history allowed the patenting of a
living organism. Subsequent research has shown that this particular
patent case was taken to the Supreme Court because the developers
believed that environmentalists would be less likely to mount
a serious legal challenge. but the 'oil-eating' bacterium was
never released as a viable 'product.' Now living organisms and
their DNA (including human DNA) are being patented throughout
the industrialized world, and the WTO is forcing countries in
the global south to alter their patent laws to sanction such atrocities
as well.
Don't believe
the hype!
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