PeTA and Politics. On Feb 19, just after George W. Bush had polished off a breakfast at Tommy s Country Ham House in Greenville, SC, a People for the Ethical Treatment clown in a pig mask showed up and dumped a truckload of dried manure at the door of the restaurant. The new declaration is one of the first organized attempts by academics to defend bioengineered foods which have come under growing attack from consumer and environmental groups. The scientists included James Watson and Norman Borlaug, the two who won the Nobel Prize, plus others from the US, Australia, India, Israel, Denmark, Canada, and other nations. It s like statistics.
Some statistics lie part of the time and some lie all the time.
Any time you hear about some new computer model making predictions about global warming, you have Very Big Lies. In the Feb 15 issue of The Earth Times , a newspaper that serves as the mouthpiece and house organ for the Greens , one news item caught my eye. As a result, they tend, like all bureaucracies, to put forth a lot of how shall we put this crap to keep the boss in a good mood. Well, at least we know he has his job for another year. For the record, Warning Signs is Copyright protected by Alan Caruba, 2000.