Tell the Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama's organic garden.


	Tell the Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama's organic garden.

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4-16-2009 5:00 PM

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4-17-2009 6:06 PM

doodleicious

ridiculous.....not better living through chemicals- but heck what do they care?

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Tell the Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama's organic garden.
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The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) has a bone to pick with Michelle Obama.
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MACA represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that - wait for it - Michelle Obama isn't using chemicals in her organic garden at the White House.
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In an email they forwarded to their supporters, <A href="http://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=1309">a MACA spokesman wrote</A>, "While a garden is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made [us] shudder." MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals -- or what they call "crop protection products" -- in her garden.
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