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Tashca Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 07:41 PM
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3. Interesting group of names
The only one I will comment on is The Hudson Institute.
Several years ago...maybe 15...I was at a national Ag meeting where the featured speaker was Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute. This was before I understood these types of propaganda tools existed. I listened and was getting madder and madder...he was full of crap. He was promoting high input agriculture and the new emerging field of Biotech. When he got done all the people in the room gave him a standing ovation. Maybe 300+ leaders in input Ag from across the country. Afterward everyone was talking about how great a speech it was....I was in shock....I could shoot that speech full of holes in an instant. The only thing different was...I was very cynical about what I thought he was going to say......everyone else was open to him. It was a great example for me of how this propaganda can so effectively work.......I never forgot that day.
Recently Avery's son, also of the Hudson Institute, has been getting articles printed in MSM about the dangers of Organic Ag. Again his articles are very carefully constructed but easy to tear apart. But to the majority of consumers who read this crap.....they don't have a clue.
I have made it my mission to debunk these ass-clowns since I first understood the motive and where there financing came from.
I have seen them also working against the beliefs of climate change.....this doesn't surprise me at all. If these other group are half as dangerous as the Hudson Institute.....there is much work to do.
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