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["JUDITH MCDONALD" <jammin03 AT msn.com>]

True! So true!  I have been an organic gardener for 35 yrs. I have always 
kept chickens as an integral part of the cycle.  No can do fowl insect 
eaters and pass USDA standards now!  And on top of that,  NSAID ????? I'm  
certainly not going to microchip chickens!  Nor my horses.  I would never be 
able to ride off the property where they live.  The whole food thing has 
gotten out of hand.

Grow your own or buy from local farmer.  Less cost, less energy consumed, 
less pesticides & other unhealthy chemicals. More money to growers, less to 
marketers and transportation. We can all live better.   (WalMart, , , , , , 
, , ,organic??  that's scarey. I haven't been there to see that!   I suppose 
next they'll say their products are made in the USA.)

"The birth of that marvelous wish in your soul-the dawning of that secret 
dream-was the Voice of God himself telling you to arise and come up higher 
because he had need of you."                   Emmet Fox




> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
> Reply-To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Organic and us
> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:35:03 EDT
>
> In a message dated 6/4/2006 10:08:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:
>
> >From Gene's Article:
>
> > But you  knew it was over  for John Kerry in the farm belt when his 
> wife,
> > Teresa,
> > helpfully suggested to Missouri farmers that they go organic.
>
> I wonder if the author made the connection that Heinz Co. markets more
> "organic:" [wink, nod, nudge] than any other entity in the world.
>
>
> What has been happening for several years now to pave the way for WalMart 
> to
> mass market cheap organic produce is a gradual weakening or the definition 
> of
> 'organic', not that the USDA definition isn't weak enough already.
>
> Back in the unshaven hippie days of organic food a pile of manure was a 
> good
> sign and chemical nitrates were completely verboden!    Now the manure pile
> does not qualify as organic unless it is turned and mixed in a very certain
> unproductive way which is out of the reach of small producers.  Yet 
> chemical
> nitrate is permitted since you COULD be using imported and expensive bat 
> guano; but
> chemical nitrate produced from fossil fuel is CHEMICALLY the same thing so
> it's OK to use it (up to 20% of total nitrogen).
>
> Expect to see a great deal of what WalMart sells for organic to be 
> imported.
> "Is this really organic??"  "Of course, amigo, trust me!"
>
>
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