In a message dated 6/19/2002 2:30:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
curt@lab404.com writes:


> As I've said elsewhere, this is not the A1 best anti-corporate
> project to ever come down the pipe, but I find its tactics
> interesting and instructive.

I try to keep my head on straight by thinking about externalities. Fukuyama
(who I challenge to a G2K Debate if he's onlist) had a dumb column about
"negative externalities" as if he invented the term. It means bad stuff that
happens when the costs of a product are not covered by producer or consumer,
for example, cheap paint made by dumping all the waste chemicals into say the
local swimming pool.

Beef has a lot of externalities like deforestation, heart disease,
biopollution, and Spongy-Brain disease. Also driving all that beef around,
keeping it cold, cooking it, emotional stress from high-fat diets, and
whatnot. Einstein said the best thing humans could do for ouselves is to go
vegetarian. So much for backstory.

Would I do a "Got G2K?" poster for the Dairy Council? It's so hard to
believe in anything.

Max

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