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A ban on the bovine growth hormone, rbGH, was enacted as part of the Clinton economic package. See Nature 364, 12 August 1993, p. 565. Even the FDA has said, since 1985, that this hormone is safe for human consumption. The ban was included, because this hormone increases milk yields by 5 to 25%. This would cause milk prices to drop thereby increasing federal subsidy expenditures and probably eliminating marginal milk producers. These are not inferred reasons; these are the actual reasons given by our government for this ban. They are deliberately banning less expensive milk and thereby reducing milk consumption by American children in order to "protect jobs'' in agriculture and in the U. S. Agriculture Department. Do we really want these same people to control our medical care?
The new goal of the pseudoenvironmentalists and, in the spirit their call for a total ban on chlorine, is 'the establishment of "core'' reserves off limits to all people and stripped of all human artifacts' as reported in "Conservation's Ecocentrics'' by E. Pennisi, Science News, 144, September 11, 1993, pp 168-170.
These "core'' ecosystems are to consist of at least half of the land area of the contiguous 48 states! All dams, power lines, and other human structures would be removed from these areas. This is seriously being proposed by, for example, Dave Forman of "Earth First'' and Mark Shaffer of "The Wilderness Society.'' One Reed Noss, billed as an "Oregon conservation biologist,'' has already turned a profit from this proposal. He is receiving $150,000 from the Pew Charitable Trusts for a three year effort to promote this proposal.

•	The Euthanasia Act of 1994
•	NOBEL TREES
•	WISER THAN THEY REALIZE
•	109 REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
•	LOSING TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
•	OZONE PROPORTIONALITY
•	TOO GOOD TO FILE
•	*STARK RAVING MAD*
•	GOOD READING

Vol. 21, No. 3

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 21, No. 3

Date: November 01, 1993 05:47 PM
Title: The Euthanasia Act of 1994