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We got two things wrong about 13-year-old musician Lee Cyphers in “French Horn Players Congregate — and Geek Out — in Plattsburgh” [March 21]. She lives in New York, not Vermont, and is one of several horn players in the Vermont Youth Orchestra, not the “principal.”
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Editor’s note: Gershuny is correct that Monsanto has not been actively involved in the selective breeding of turkeys. We should have clarified the farmer’s statement quoted in the article. Monsanto is often identified — rightly or wrongly — as the figurehead of genetic engineering in agriculture, and in fact has sought to patent selectively bred pigs. However, the term “genetically modified” is applied broadly to selectively bred turkeys, whose genetic makeup is vastly different than it was decades ago.
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Your article about the campaign to require labeling of GMO foods addresses an issue that is dear to my heart [“Unnatural Selection,” March 14], and I’m glad to see it getting some positive press. But I was dismayed to read the slice of an interview that got the facts totally wrong. Both the farmer interviewed and the author apparently have no clue about the difference between GMO crops and the breeding of animals — in this case, turkeys — that is accomplished through “normal” processes. “Monsanto and company” have no role in creating or promoting these breeds, which are not “genetically modified animals” as was stated in the article. This is too important an issue to give an easy score to the marketers of GMO technology, who are quick to point out that labeling will only arouse consumer fears based on scientific ignorance. This article blatantly displays such ignorance and should be corrected immediately.
I am a lifelong Vermonter and very much appreciate the state’s landscape and understand some of the concerns that the opponents of the Lowell wind project have. It bothers me, too, seeing trees cut, animal habitats ruined and hillsides dotted with houses. Kathryn Flagg’s article “Blow Hard” [March 14] was very informative and gave a clear view into both sides of this battle. However, I’m less troubled by land being used for renewable-energy projects. The world has to move away from burning fossil fuels to produce electricity. And do it fast. The emissions are contributing too much toward climate change, and that poses a significant risk to the amenities in life that we all have grown accustomed to. Is the wicked weather around the country in the last month a mild preview of things to come? Will there be a time when we wish that we had acted much sooner? I sure hope not, but I’m worried, because there are some troubling scenarios with climate change. So while citizens and our elected Republicans and Democrats bicker about this and the oil industry pointing to a cleaner future, [more time passes]. That’s too bad, because there is a lot at stake.
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