Shout with us! We need your voice!

Remember my post "Shock and Disbelief"? Well at the end there was a plea for you to vote and support cropwatch, the last part of that post went like this: Support is needed here, I fear that upon finding my path in life (natural perfumery), it will be made impossible or even illegal for me to follow it.

Would you please go to the Perfumer & Flavourist
site, and vote for Cropwatch in the Cropwatch vs IFRA poll / (scroll down to bottom left hand
corner of page).
In the words of Tony Burfield:
"A good showing for Cropwatch would maybe allow us
natural product lovers, to gain more credence in these issues."

Remember That?
Well the poll was closed and the poll results were released.
They read as follows:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MIAMI SHORES, Fla./February 8, 2007.
On February 7, 2007, fragrance and flavor trade magazine Perfumer &
Flavorist released the results of an online poll showing 85.1% of
readers in favor of boycotting proposed fragrance industry guidelines
that will heavily limit the use of natural essential oils in perfumes
and cosmetics.
OK, so that was that, we were happy with the results...
Now fasten your intellectual seat belts please.

This news was released the day before yesterday: Cropwatch vs. IFRA: A Note from the Editor

[February 12, 2007]

Our mission at P&F magazine, the P&Fnow newsletter and www.perfumerflavorist.com is to provide a venue for the latest news, research and ideas in the flavor and fragrance industry. We seek neither to inflate the position of nor act as an advocate for any particular industry interests.
Few topics have more keenly required our forum or been more controversial than the recent Cropwatch boycott of IFRA’s 40th Amendment to its Code of Practice. We’ve reported each step of the story as it has it has unfolded and recently posted an unscientific online poll. While the results of that poll have skewed heavily toward the Cropwatch point of view, we’ve received many passionate e-mails in support of both positions.
We do not intend to misrepresent the attitude of the industry as a whole, but rather seek to take the temperature of our readers. With that in mind, we will keep the poll voting open until March 5, after which we will report the new results in P&Fnow (subscribe here). Vote now on our homepage! And we will continue to cover this story as it unfolds, reporting the various facts and divergent positions as accurately as is possible.
We thank all of our readers for making P&F a dynamic, if sometimes contentious, industry platform. As always, we welcome your feedback at jallured@allured.com.

So basically folks we need *more* votes in support of Cropwatch, the polls are re-opened as mentioned until the 5th of March, so please, if you haven't voted already please go ahead and vote now and please give us your support, if you have already voted then copy this page and send it to all your friends and family and ask them vote in favour of the cropwatch boycott.
Thanks for reading this serious stuff and Happy Valentines Day again!