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  • From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
  • To: frshstrt AT baldwin-telecom.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Organic post (sals)
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:04:48 -0400


Just a note to clarify:

I don't agree with much of the USDA policy. I just thought that people should know what the law actually says.

Attempts to change it are fine with me. Some of the techniques of attempting to ignore it are fine with me too. The only people I have a quarrel with (aside from the USDA, that is) are the ones who want to say their stuff is "organic" when they haven't bothered to find out what "organic" is, or when they want the name but don't want to actually farm in that fashion. By this I mean, not only that they haven't read the USDA's version, or that they're not going along with something the USDA put in their law that is controversial among organic growers; but that they haven't learned about the subject from elsewhere in the organic community either; and/or are doing things that nobody who does understand the subject would accept as "organic". I have run into people who routinely use synthetic herbicides, but think they should be allowed to call their produce organic because no spray has been applied to the actual fruit. I have run into people who think that "organic" means only that you don't use a sprayer. I could go on in this line for some time. Any misconception you can think of in the general public as to the meaning of the word, there is somebody out there who also has that misconception, but wants to sell their produce as "organic".

Sal is clearly not one of those people. I have a lot of sympathy with his frustration. There are people who have heard me come out with a few rants in this area myself.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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