Farm Bureau upset that science kit for students contains left-wing book with misinformation about mo

[Bozita]

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette

Farm Bureau upset that science kit for students contains left-wing book with misinformation about modern farming
Published: Saturday, October 08, 2011, 6:00 AM Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2011, 9:27 AM
By Julie Mack | Kalamazoo Gazette


The Michigan Farm Bureau objects that a popular and well-regarded developer of Michigan science curriculums is using a self-published book that has inaccuracies about conventional agricultural methods and pushes an unabashedly liberal agenda.

The book is included in a new seventh-grade science kit marketed by the Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center and is part of the unit on climate change, which the Michigan Department of Education identifies as a required topic in seventh-grade science.

“A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids” holds up Al Gore as an “eco-hero;” promotes organizations such as Greenpeace and Rainforest Alliance; urges children to persuade their parents to “Vote Green” and buy organic; cautions against new-home construction, the plastics industry and conventional agriculture, and notes “many people believe that it is best for the earth for families to have no more than one child.”

The 88-page book was written by Julie Hall, a resident of Bainbridge, Wash., cofounder of ProgressiveKids, “a planet-friendly” online company, and a poet whose work has been published in The Nation, a liberal magazine.


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Don't you ever, ever, ever criticize factory farms!

[annabanana]

1. Those damn pesky facty facts. . . .n/t

[NiteOwll]

2. Boo hoo! About time they get something to balance

the right wing agenda they get in public schools everyday.

[Odin2005]

3. Them pesky facts!!!

[saras]

4. ALMOST unrecced for misleading title. Lucky I read the whole thing.

[FarLeftFist]

5. HOW DARE YOU TELL MY KIDS THE TRUTH! I'M TRYING TO KEEP THEM DUMB AND MISINFORMED!

[NV Whino]

6. Have to counteract those Texas textbooks.

[alp227]

7. That bureau is awash in meat industry money

yet no FACTS to counter Hall's book. And I read the nation online regularly and never heard of Hall.

[lunatica]

8. Dark Ages here we come!

And I thought they only wanted to go back 100 years to the Gilded Age.