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  • From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: USDA strikes again
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:01:15 -0600


This morning between 5 and 5:30 on channel 41 out of Kansas City, the lady newscaster announced that organic food may not be all it was cracked up to be. Then a message came on from the USDA saying that organic food was not more nutritious and not more safe to eat than conventionally grown food. It went on to say that the USDA will soon have its organic rules in place so everyone in the U.S. will have the same protection. If I hadn't been so sleepy, I would have written it all down verbatim. I feel like perhaps the consumers need protection from the USDA. I suppose there are still some people who believe what they see on TV and what they read in the papers. It might be advantageous to move to Mexico - then anything you care to grow could be shipped across the border without regulation. Maybe organic growers will have to go underground - sell gourmet salad mix on the black market, have pockets sewn into the linings of overcoats and stuff them with Brandywine tomatoes, and deliver in the wee hours in trucks marked "tobacco." What a concept!

Marie in Missouri





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