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HIGH COUNRTY
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and bought out Bread & Circus, our local nat-
ural foods grocery.
Bread & Circus always bought from local
growers as much as possible. Whole Foods
claimed they would continue that practice.
Bread & Circus supported local community
fund-raising. Again Whole Foods announced
they would be similarly active locally.
Many years have passed and our great
local store has morphed into an incredibly
over-priced, designer, yuppie, supposedly
natural food emporium. This year the store
was doubled in size, the majority of it de-
voted to wine, cheese, chocolate and fancy
coffees. Items in bulk seeds and grains were
reduced, the bulk herb section practically
eliminated and shoved into an awkward cor-
ner.
The dairy product area discontinued using
all local suppliers for eggs, milk and butter.
Throughout the store local cottage industry
products were replaced with more expensive
items shipped in from out of state.
Instead there is now an elaborate makeup
area in cosmetics and stacks of conventional
magazines at the registers. Much of the fresh
food deli items are now prepared offsite
along with many of the baked goods.
As for involvement in community fund-
raising, Whole Foods is notorious among
local school fund-raisers as being the only
large grocery that has not participated in any
programs over the past 10 years.
Make no mistake, Whole Foods is big
business, devoted to profits and governed
from Texas — no matter what the public rela-
tions people say.
Kristine Sinicrope
Amherst, Mass.
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When the new library was opened in
Eugene, I was very pleased to discover that it
has a fairly large collection of movies, includ-
ing even new releases which usually cost
more than a few dollars to rent at places like
Blockbuster. But then, what an unpleasant
surprise it was to realize that I probably won’t
be able to watch many of those new DVDs
available at our city’s library! Why? Because
the library for some strange reason buys most
DVDs only in the so-called “widescreen” for-
mat, which can be fully appreciated if viewed
only on special new TVs.
Widescreen TV sets still are quite expen-
sive and are perhaps only affordable to a
small portion of the library’s patrons.
Moreover, I also think that if one has enough
money to buy such an expensive TV, then it’s
most likely no problem for them to simply
buy the DVD itself, or at least rent it at a
video rental store. On the other hand, the ma-
jority of people who can’t afford to buy
widescreen TVs prefer to borrow movies
from the library. But this is where the prob-
lem comes in. Almost all of the movies that
the library has on DVDs are now in that
widescreen format and thus are almost im-
possible to watch on a regular TV set, be-
cause the movie itself takes up only half of
the screen, while the rest is just a black void.
Why can’t the library buy, say, three
copies of the movie in widescreen and one
copy in normal full-screen mode?
Gabriella Anelauskaite
Eugene
CHEM WARFARE
I am very grateful to Ursula Evans-
Heritage for her article, “Silent Summer”
(6/16). Yet I must mention that she did not
cover one of the main current and relevant is-
sues about pesticides in Oregon. Since 2004,
Lynn Bowers, founder of Forestland
Dwellers No-Spray Group, has mapped more
than 51,000 corporate timberland acres in
Lane County just between the Coast Range,
the Willamette River and south of Eugene
that are repeatedly being aerially sprayed
with herbicides, including 2,4-D. This chem-
ical is one of the components of Agent
Orange (a chemical warfare agent developed
for use in defoliating the jungle and farms in
Vietnam) and it leaves a persistent, known
carcinogen dioxin in the environment for-
ever.
This practice is not limited to Lane
County, but is repeated all over Oregon,
wherever timber companies first clearcut,
then plant Doug fir seedlings. Frequently
they must replant the seedlings because the
herbicides which are meant to kill competing
vegetation can also kill them.
Why are chemical warfare agents being
used on Oregon forests, which in turn creates
deadly health hazards for Oregonians? And
why would corporate timber companies use
these deadly chemicals unless they are at war
with the forests and Oregonians, or are just
they beholden to the petrochemical industry?
If people would like more information
about herbicide use in Oregon, Talking Points
to Change Herbicide Use in Oregon is avail-
able by calling 342-8332 or e-mailing:
amy@informproductions.com. If people
would like to know more about the environ-
mental causes of cancer, please check out
www.preventcancer.com
Amy Pincus Merwin
InForm Productions and Radio
LAND OF THE FREE
I agree with everything Charles Dalton
said in his “Corrupt Strategy” (7/7) letter. The
question is, what do we do now to correct
Bush and Cheney’s numerous errors that
have caused so much misery? It is immoral,
illegal, a war crime and an impeachable of-
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