Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>]

Thank you for clearing that up for me.  The very suggestion that CSA
operations should have ANY kind of ethical guidelines is what got me kicked
out.  A page right out of Bush's playbook. I was not kicked out when I
first stated I did not have a CSA. I was not kicked out when I asked
pertinent questions about the advantage of a CSA. I was not kicked out when
your CSA friends started beating me up and acting like complete idiots. 

The only conclusion I can draw from your behavior is that CSA is
fundamentally corrupt and unethical, hiding behind all the trendy hype they
can spit out. You could have led me to a different conclusion, but most of
you reacted defensively instead. Now it will be my privilege to relate my
experience with the CSA crowd - and my opinion of it - to many lists.  I
own several lists and I'm on a LOT of lists, and I reach thousands daily.
Your mistake. 

paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://medicinehill.net

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry 

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On 9/18/2005 at 8:05 PM Anna Barnes wrote:

>Paul:
>You don't have a CSA. As such you are a guest on this list. However, 
>messages like the one below suggest that you are simply out to elicit 
>flaming. This unproductive and you leave me no choice but to unsubscribe
>you.
>-Anna Barnes
>CSA-L Moderator
>
>
>Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:02:33 -0600
>From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
>To: csa-l@lists.prairienet.org
>Subject: Re: [Csa-l] Here's a question
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>
>Perhaps the forum is so "mild mannered" because no one can conceive of any
>business practice being unethical or "wrong" so long as it's called a CSA.
>Are you absolutely certain that CSA members can do no wrong in business?
>I'm suggesting that the whole CSA model might be more credible if someone
>took the lead in organizing a set of ethical guidelines. There aren't any.
>
>paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
>http://medicinehill.net
>
>The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
>our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
>foster its renewal is our only hope.
>    - Wendell Berry