Forum Archive Index - October 2000

["hugh webber" <hugh.webber@clear.net.nz>]

um James, I wasn't actually talking about organic vs non-organic
but arguing against the banning of GM and Bio-tech per se.
CJE had nothing to do with GM or bio-tech but everything to
do with an existing disease crossing the species line between 
cows and humans.
Another example is influenza which was originally a purely
bird disease. Banning GM and bio-tech won't stop such
events from continuing to happen. Whether we like it or not
living is dangerous to our health but the alternative is worse.
I'm simply trying to approach this from the viewpoint of a 
sensible investor which includes encouraging not banning
innovation. On the data I support organic farming in NZ as 
being able to seize a niche high return export market so if
someone showed me a good well thought out genetic farming
venture meeting the Buffet criteria I'd be interested - if I had 
the money available - which I don't at the mo, I'm fully invested.
However I wouldn't see organic farming stopping non-organic
farming unless all consumers all over the world said we only
buy organic which would be impossible to supply from a 
production point of view anyway.

cheers,
Hugh

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> From: James Maxwell <jcmaxwellnz@yahoo.com>
> To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
> Subject: [sharechat] Re: Hugh looking for non organic food.
> Date: Sunday, 29 October 2000 10:25
> 
> Hugh, I agree with much of what you said regards
> tech-stocks.
> 
> With regard to your plea:
> 
> ("My demand is not for a shop where I can only buy
> 'organic' food only modified by radiation from the sun
> and by natural evolution but for a shop where I can
> only buy GM and Bio-tech products. I'd do all my
> shopping there to encourage innovation! Can anyone
> refer me to one?")
> 
> I would refer you to any non-organic butcher's shop in
> the UK in the 1980's/90's.  There you could buy beef
> produced by the latest innovation - feeding cattle
> with food made from other cattle. Unfortunately, you
> might have also have picked up a dose of another
> innovation - BSE!!!!
> 
> I'm not sure that acting as guinea-pigs for the latest
> biological innovations is what most people want from
> their food!
> 
> 
> 
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