Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["D K" <dkhs22@gmail.com>]

> Why does the government?particularly the FDA, which is in charge of 
> produce?have such a hard time finding the problem when there is one? It's 
> been almost a month since tomatoes were linked to salmonella poisoning 
> (that must have originated in meat), and the FDA still hasn't found the 
> source of the problem. That's because the FDA doesn't track produce. The 
> administration wrote a report outlining the need to track tomatoes in 
> particular, but never asked for funding to implement the plan.


I bet someone in the FDA or USDA is already thinking and working on
ideas such as (with seriousness) "Gee, we need to figure out a way to
make NAIS for produce!"

Maybe it would be called NPIS (pronounced "in piss").

"National Produce Identification System" and some RFID chip
manufacturer CEO sees a pile of money floating in a cloud above his
head.

It would not surprise me to see the introduction of a ridiculously
expensive and impossible program to track produce. Rather than
encouraging local markets, they will come up with a new superhuman
scale program to defeat the evil emperor "nature". Nature sits there
and tells us, in no uncertain terms, "This ain't working,", but humans
want to continue defying it.

Diane K in FL