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Monsanto and Fox and Consumers’ Right to Know
By Donella Meadows
–April 23, 1998–
Well here’s a howdy-do. TV station in Florida prepares hard-hitting series questioning safety of grocery-store milk. Large biotech company threatens station with libel suit. Station cancels broadcast, orders reporters to rewrite series. Reporters refuse. Station fires reporters. Reporters sue station.
It’s easy to post one of two well-worn headlines over this story — CORPORATION AND MEDIA CONSPIRE [...]
CSA Farms Can Help Our Health, Our Land, and Our Farmers
By Donella Meadows
–April 16, 1998–
On average, 65 cents out of every dollar you spend for food at the supermarket go for packaging, delivery and marketing. Thirty cents go to chemical companies that make fertilizers, pesticides and genetically altered organisms. That leaves five cents for the farmer.
If you wonder why farms are failing (over 20,000 a year go under in the [...]
Immigration Tears the Sierra Club Apart
By Donella Meadows
–April 2, 1998–
Given our history, our beneficent self-image, and the fact that we are nearly all descendants of immigrants, Americans get emotional about immigration. So the Sierra Club is in trouble.
As early as 1970, the Club resolved to “bring about stabilization of the population first of the United States and then of the world.” In 1989 it stated [...]
We Don’t Need New Ideas; We Just Need to Stop Having Old Ones
By Donella Meadows
–March 26, 1998–
When I got off the plane in Amsterdam last Saturday, I walked across the terminal to a clean, efficient train system that could take me to anywhere in Europe. I was headed for Groningen in north Holland. I didn’t have to wait long; trains to the north come through every half hour.
Why don’t we have a [...]
Here a Vroom, There a Vroom, Everywhere a Vroom, Vroom
By Donella Meadows
–March 19, 1998–
Snowmobiles continued to vroom unhampered through Yellowstone National Park this winter, though beleaguered park officials had intended to close some of the trails.
Environmentalists pounded for trail closure. Their ostensible purpose was to prevent bison from following machine-packed paths out of the park. But they had other reasons. On winter weekends the exhaust from thousands of two-stroke [...]
