Existing users, 
imagine my dismay when i read the product description for crittersim and came to the part that said, "apply herbicide and pesticide".
now, i know that this has more to do with the moral ethics of a product than its performance, but i think that any software product that promotes an agricultural technology that is far outdated and has been proven to be hazardous to the health and welfare of the people who use herbicides and pesticides as well as those who consume the products treated with these dangerous chemicals needs to rethink its moral responsibility to the world.
crittersim, by promoting the use of herbicides and pesticides, is sending the wrong message to consumers, especially young consumers.
this one needs to go back to r&d to create a sim that's more in line with 21st century agri-tech and also has a moral conscience. i don't think versiontracker should be promoting any product that says that endangering the health of people and animals and poisoning the earth is ok.
Crittersim
simulation of plants & animals
Version: 1.3
herbicide and pesticide... whoa !
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: jetboy_4ever Monday, December 04 2006 @ 10:49 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
herbicide and pesticide... whoa ! - ClarkwoodSoftware
Whoa indeed. Strong reactions to software one hasn't even tried. We sat, we thought, we wrote. It's here: http://www.clarkwood.com/articles/fake_cruelty/Saturday, May 26 2007 @ 10:46 PM PDT
herbicide and pesticide... whoa ! - rjmm1
"i don't think versiontracker should be promoting any product that says that endangering the health of people and animals and poisoning the earth is ok."Don't you think you'd better start by getting all the games involving war and dangerous driving etc., banned first?
I'm a hippy and I eat organic wholefood as much as practical (yes I wear sandals and ride a bike too); I also happen to know that organic food production rules permit some agri-chemicals: just those which are considered `natural'. We are also refused information about whether some ingredients are genetically modified (to protect US soya interests: almost all US soya is GM, and it's used to make the common emulsifier lecithin). I need a bigger back garden so I can grow more of my own food...
You have a point about this game; but you should also know that almost all agriculture in the 21st century depends on
agri-chemicals, like it or not. If artificial pesticides and fertilizers were banned today, hundreds of millions would be dying of starvation before the year's end.
If you'd like a game to propagandize for sane food production standards, don't do that intolerant, bigoted American thing of wanting to ban what you don't like: take the civilised European line, create something that pushes your ideas, and get it out there into the marketplace.
And then, maybe, one day, we'll have global agriculture producing wholesome food in a sane and sustainable fashion at a rate to feed well the many billions of people we've got to feed here on Earth.
Prince Charles (as in `of Wales') is walking the walk: he's set up a large scale operation that sells very high quality food in `normal shops', all of it made in sane, traditional fashion. Just one taste is enough to convince most people that there's still some point to royalty. That's what you ought to be doing, not whinging and demanding a ban.
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