Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[yarrow@sfo.com]

At 12:20 AM -0500 9/15/07, <activism98201@verizon.net> wrote:
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> It might be that no one was specifically measuring organics vs. 
> standard crops, or that measurements hadn't been done recently, but 
> this isn't the same as no measuring happening.  Which leads me to 
> the real trouble I have with this, and that's that, IMO, the 
> industry didn't want to perform measurements; if this is the case 
> then I'd suspect it's because they didn't want such information out 
> there.

Yeah, but "the industry" did not commission this study; an 
organization focused on promoting the benefits of organics did. I'd 
guess "the industry" *still* doesn't want to use any of its resources 
to perform measurements or promote this kind of information because 
it doesn't think they're important. As long as consumers continue to 
buy tasteless produce that was produced for the lowest cost, why 
should the producers have to change anything they do? And, in fact, I 
haven't seen this study reported in the mainstream press.

Among nongardeners I know, all of them appreciate free homegrown 
produce, but very few go out of their way to buy organic, or even to 
buy in season, because they don't see any reason to change their 
habits.