OP-ED: Twice bitten - (Rutland Herald)
April 3, 2008 – 8:05 pmhttp://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080401/FEATURES12/804010302/1026/FEATURES12
Sharon Parquette Nimtz writes that given a choice between store-bought and farm-fresh milk, most of us would continue on our well-trodden path, that way of doing something that is so familiar we don’t need to take any of our scarce-afforded, already chockfull time to think about it.
But, forced to make a choice? Now that’s another thing. The two sides part from the mainstream, and that’s good it’s good to be informed and to make choices for one’s self and demand to be able to make those choices.
But some swerve so drastically they become a fringe, a lunatic fringe given to hyperbole which doesn’t prove their point and hatefulness.
That’s when we’re apt to get pompous about it, authoritarian and paternalistic and bossy and worried about others who didn’t make the same choice we did. Those people are doomed, we say either from drinking the milk of many […]
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