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| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 DC - I heard the same root origin but that the sabots were thrown into machinery. Sabot also gave its name to the jettisoned 'slippers' surrounding the dense small-calibre penetrator of Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) anti-tank shells, but I'm sure you already knew that. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-26 5:03:33 PM |
| #16 It's interesting. The word sabotage comes from a time when field workers had overseers to tell them what to do. There was one overseer who was very overbearing and the workers hated him so one night they trampled down HIS field of grain with their sabots, wooden shoes, hence the word sabotage. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-07-26 4:45:52 PM |
| #15 Somebody should tell them that Lance Armstrong eats GM food. LOL. Ahem.... speaking of genetically modified. :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-26 2:37:06 PM |
| #14 Somebody should tell them that Lance Armstrong eats GM food. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2004-07-26 1:09:47 PM |
| #13 Let the frogs eat grapes. There is going to be a bumper crop this year and, with declining wine exports, France must do something with the excess grapes. |
| Posted by: Random thoughts 2004-07-26 11:17:21 AM |
| #12 Jose Bove, the Destructor of McDonalds restaurants; Mamere, I believe former minister of environment, perhaps only Green party head, while Jospin was PM. In other words, the usual suspects. They're more than willing to accept the consequences since nothing will be done. Liberation and Le Monde already defended Bove when he smashed up the "MacDo" restaurants. Cops taking photos and names. Scare me. You can be sure all the papers and TV were there to record events. |
| Posted by: Michael 2004-07-26 11:12:41 AM |
| #11 Big points for Mitch H.! It's damn difficult to drag ole Henry into a modern blog fight! :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-26 9:58:10 AM |
| #10 Flamebait - we're talking about maize, AKA corn. Who cares if it's patented? Modern maize can't be profitably replanted - it's grown from hybrid seed which won't breed true. Has been since the Thirties. If that bugs you, go yell at the grave of Henry Wallace. He was responsible, back in the day... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-07-26 8:36:56 AM |
| #9 Anyone have any idea what kind of GM corn was destroyed by the Hottentots? I found an article mentioning that the fields were run by Pioneer, which probably means Herculex I, but that's just a WAG. For all I know, they were experimental non-food medicinal crops. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-07-26 8:34:35 AM |
| #8 Well it's rampant fear and fear mongering in the U.K. and the contintent. In North America it's not much of an issue. My problem is patenting food crops. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-26 8:34:10 AM |
| #7 Having worked on genetic modification myself, I can tell you 99% of the objection to the use of such technology is indeed pure, luddite scare-mongering. Interestingly, the amount of public resistance to GM technology seems to be directly proportional to a nation's psychological health and optimism, in general. The fact that the French seem to have taken the utterly irrational anti-GM cause to heart is just another indicator of widespread reality denial. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-26 8:24:27 AM |
| #6 These folks are wooly headed for sure. I have fear about all my food being patented though. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-26 8:17:51 AM |
| #5 I've got no problem with that, Rafael, just so long as the extra cost is met voluntarily by the consumer, at the point of sale, and not by |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-26 5:07:53 AM |
| #4 In the case of farming I would prefer that they stay inefficient. Inefficient tastes better. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-07-26 1:49:55 AM |
| #3 Won't the French farmers need to be more efficient when the EU pulls their subsidy? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-26 1:43:21 AM |
| #2 Did I leave anybody out? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-26 12:20:27 AM |
| #1 That's all right. They probably would've lost it anyways when the farmers went on strike. Or the truck drivers. Or the railway workers. Did I leave anybody out? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-07-26 12:10:19 AM |