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  • From: "sal" <sals@rain.org>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>, "Homestead mailing list" <homestead@listserv.unc.edu>, <bdnow@envirolink.org>
  • Subject: Fw: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760
  • Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 05:41:17 -0700



check out an organic farmers homepage
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
sals@rain.,org
----- Original Message -----
From: <kandmhfarm@sprintmail.com>
To: <sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760


> Wonder if he feels the same way about pesticide drift in his backyard?
>
> FROM AgBioView website <http://agbioview.listbot.com/cgi-bin/>
> Date: Apr 27 2000 16:07:40 EDT
> From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
> Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
>
> From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
> Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
>
> IF the organic farmers/retailers expect to sell a value-added product,
> then
> they, not anyone else, is responsible for all of the necessary costs of
> producing and marketing the value-added product. So they are responsible
> for the costs of segregation-identification. If those costs soar beyond
> any reasonable consumer willingess to pay, so be it.
>
> To impose on the rest of agriculture the liability for the organic
> farmers
> silly preferences and loss of value added return is ridiculous. The
> organic industry is demanding the right to sue other farmers if their
> harvests are "contaminated" with biotech pollen and thus destroys their
> "organic" crop. This is a backdoor imposition of organic standards on
> the
> rest of the farm community and it is absurd.
>
> Alex A. Avery
> Director of Research and Education
> Center for Global Food Issues
> Hudson Institute
> P.O. Box 202
> Churchville, VA 24421
> (540) 337-6354
> fax: (540) 337-8593
> email: aavery@rica.net
>
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  • Fw: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760, sal, 04/29/2000

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