Connnecting your garden to the 'cosmic influence'

Soon after, however, Singer lets loose. “Giving people the impression that it is virtually impossible to be vegan doesn’t help animals,” he moans. I don’t know. Giving folks the impression that “colour therapy” is good for your health doesn’t seem to be helping my eyes either.

It’s true that the ABC is no friend of intellectual diversity. Yet, we can only guess why a suspiciously high number of pagan writers are selling their earth goddess insights and goodies to vulnerable old ladies.

That is not to say that all advertisements should be banned, but the question of false advertising and advertising-friendly feature stories should raise our curiosity levels.

The ABC is our ABC. In other words, the public has the right to ask the questions about the many ways in which this public symbol is being prostituted for gold.

Signs and symptoms of unhealthy marketing stratagems include the following:

• The ABC’s Organic Gardener (Spring 2006), publishers a feature article on how to “grow your own veggies and fish with backyard aquaponics” and, coincidentally, an advertisement for aquaponic systems just happens to pop up - from pumps to aeration equipment.
• The ABC’s Organic Gardener (Spring 2006), also features a special report on “lip stick troubles” with advice from Nancy Evans, the founder of Nancy Evans Certified Organic Rosehip Skincare. Curiously, there is also a full page advertisement advertising organic lipsticks. The company in question? Nancy Evan’s Organic Rosehip Skincare, of course. “Now there is no need to worry about synthetic chemical ingredients,” claims the advert.

And, yes, the ABC’s Organic Gardner has a green fundamentalist vision at odds with reality. These are the politically incorrect facts, but they are facts just the same.

Biodynamic soil activators? No way! Not when you can consult a seer or village witch in order to connect your garden soil to the “cosmic influence.” Yes, Andrew Bolt is correct.