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  • From: "Lamb-Vines" <lambvines@odsy.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760
  • Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:57:00 -0500


I would have to say Alex is pretty silly. His stance on GMs especially. So
organic is added on value. That one is new to me.
Lamb-Vines


----- Original Message -----
From: sal <sals@rain.org>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 7:41 AM
Subject: Fw: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760


>
> 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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