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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:56:26 -0400

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:01:56 -0400, you wrote:

> "sals" <sals3 AT cox.net> wrote the truth and did it well, but I would wonder
>at the possibilities of trading the hassel and expence of certification for
>the opportunity to build on retail direct to the consumer using a beyond
>organic moniker. To be certified is to be no better than the mega growers
>like Earthbound, Horizon or "Mission Organics, a supplier to Natural
>Selection Foods"( the most likely supplier of the problem sipnach) which I
>think I can assure you that the organic founders never had in mind.
>I think the organic founders had in mind that the consumer should know their
>grower, visit his farm, see his work, understand his pholisophy, and buy his
>product; to think that having the government list the hoops to be jumped
>through to gain the use of a magic word thereby imporving the diet and
>health of the nation is utter bullshud.
>
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Eliot Coleman suggested the term 'authentic food' for this purpose and for
the reasons you describe.

See: http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/main/authentic/authentic.html

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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