Letter |To The Editor

Dear Co-op:

This is in response to “Unsavory Solutions to a Healthy Rio Grande”, in the August issue of the Co-op Connection. People with the kind of attitude such as Richard Barish’s scare the heck out of me.

It’s his right to disagree with anyone, including Allan Savory, if he wishes to. I’m not arguing that, but he whacks you guys for not upholding the “high standards” of your publication by running Savory’s editorial.

Mr. Barish obviously believes that “his” word is the be-all end-all, and that anything out of his confined way of thinking shouldn’t be allowed to be read or considered by anyone.

Does being “Bosque and Riparian Chair” for the Sierra Club entitle him to censor reading material? (It’s precisely because of abrasive personalities like his that I don’t join groups like the Sierra Club).

Guess he doesn’t believe in freedom of the press. Maybe he should worry more about human sludge escaping into the Rio Grande rather than what the rest of us decide to read.

“Savory’s ideas should be shunned…” Shunned? Where does Dick come from? Shunned?! That’s right, ignore it and it will go away. Guess I should’ve ignored Mr. Barish.

Oh, and look out Rio Grande Valley farmers… if angry folks like Mr. Barish have their way, it will be the end of the growing season — for good! The Rio Grande needs to be improved and cared for with today’s realities in mind, rather than with memories of the past, idyllic as they might be.

Thank you, Co-op, for welcoming different points of view, and here’s to even more of the same in the future. And… I’m so glad you are in the North Valley neighborhood! — Carol Pendleton