I find this article extremely funny. The MidAmerica CropLife Association sent a letter to Michelle Obama asking her to please reconsider her organic garden. You see, it's bad for the pesticide community to have the First Lady walking around promoting healthy lettuce (using no pesticides).
It seems that Michelle Obama’s White House organic garden has alarmed the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA), so they took immediate action by sending the First Lady an email, Thursday, March 26th, 2009, defending chemical based agriculture, and urging her to use “crop protection products,” (i.e. pesticides) in the name of recognizing the importance of agriculture to the economy.
This is the BEST example of lobbyists in Washington. What they fail to address is the difference between raising hundreds of thousands of acres of food vs raising a little side garden in your back yard. It's much easier to use organic methods to keep the bugs off in your back yard because it's such a small plot of land. Of course when you're raising thousands of tons of lettuce - pesticides are currently necessary (because - God forbid we raise smaller, local batches of food - that wouldn't bring in as much money!).
Keep in mind I'm a grandaughter of a farmer so their plight is near & dear to me. The fact that MACA sent a letter to Michelle Obama to try to "talk her into" using pesticides on the White House garden is beyond ridiculous but it is a good example of someone trying to earn their paycheck.
I guess even lobbyists in DC are worried about losing their jobs these days.
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