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Re: [Livingontheland] Antibiotics in Your Organic Lettuce and Other Tales from the Factory Farm
- From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Antibiotics in Your Organic Lettuce and Other Tales from the Factory Farm
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
There's a pattern here thats hard to ignore that we were taught as children. Later in life we learned it was called 'the tyranny of mediocrity'. Classrooms play to the least astute or least curious kid. Laws tend to protect the lawmaker most, the criminal next and the victim least. The majority of markets target the consumer who makes the poorest choices not the best. Capital systems (private or public based) promote the quickest and typically least healthiest production and distribution mechanisms by their very definition. Growth is necessary to bandage a lack of sustainability and inherently ineffecient capital systems. Logical deficencies in modern mega civilizations get wall papered with rhetoric, analysis is buried in misleading and aberrant statistics. Maybe I'm just being cynnical but thats how it seems to me. I fear problems like this will end up (as they do now), putting additional constraints (you can only use green manure, or you may only use your own livestocks organic manure to remain certified) on responsible producers in order to protect the current state of irresponsible production. Sure high temp. composting is put forward as a potential solution to part of the problem, but that has its own problems. Maintain the temp artificially you defeat the very purpose of composting, raise it too high you make the composting less effective. http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/needs_temperature.htm --- On Mon, 6/22/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
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- Re: [Livingontheland] Antibiotics in Your Organic Lettuce and Other Tales from the Factory Farm, Pete Vukovich, 06/24/2009
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