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...maiden speech to parliament, Künast proposed increasing organic farming, which avoids pesticides, drugs and other manmade chemicals and feeds, from 2.5% of agriculture to 20% in 10 years, thus creating a common front with two other female Agriculture Ministers, Sweden's Margareta Winberg and Denmark's Ritt Bjerregaard. Künast proposed changing Germany's complex system of meat labeling into just two categories: organically grown food and products that meet minimum-quality levels. A poll taken after she had been in the job just one month showed her to be the third-most popular politician in Germany...
...negotiating flexibility if a comprehensive plan can be put in place," Gore announced at the end of a vivid (and lengthy) exposition on global warming. Few at the 160-nation meeting knew exactly what that meant. Greenpeace complained the speech was full of "hot air;" European Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard said he was "disappointed" that "the rhetoric was not met by the reality." And the U.S. business community ? from which Gore would like at least a measure of support in 2000 ? wasn't happy either. William F. O'Keefe, head of the business-based Global Climate Coalition, purported...
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