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jeffbox
re : Support For/From Universities
Dec 19 2008, 4:46 PM EST | Post edited: Dec 19 2008, 4:46 PM EST
I agree for the most part that research funding is part of the problem. Also, a great deal of the classes I am to take in the horticulture department are simply designed to prepare me for a career. This is okay because I guess most people are in it to prepare for a career. There are some classes that I believe fit my interest more than others, and I consider them to be what the schools have done right. For example, I have taken your class. It’s got me thinking now. What’s gone wrong? Overspecialization maybe, or bowing down to the dollar, and funding primarily projects that are in the framework of a potentially flawed system.
If the system at large is flawed, and we can only get grant money to research issues that come about through the system, then the grant system is flawed too. I still think that the solution could be in coming up with an argument which opposes the conventional system as being unethical. Maybe what we need is not public support for organic, but public disapproval for conventional.
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