Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

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On 1/4/2011 at 12:24 PM Pete Vukovich wrote:

>Ok I'm still cynical, and well cynical. The first thing I noticed was
>that its being promoted by a doctor, maybe he's a smart doctor. Most of
>them don't even know how long it takes an unpopulated human gut to
>repopulate itself bacterially speaking after losing its flora. Ask one
>sometime if you think I'm kidding. I'm sure they mean well.
>
>I don't know if the food safety act covers developing 'science based
>standards' that currently aren't even present, and given the state of
>science and its cooption by political and corporate vehicles with other
>motives - I'm skeptical as well as cynical. I remember on this list we
>were talking about how long it takes E. coli to die off when you compost,
>I think we came to to conclusion that it depends. It depends on the soil
>capilarity, the water content, the temperature, the other material being
>composted. So far, I haven't noticed scientists coming up with those sort
>of local answers - perhaps I'm not well educated and have missed it. Now
>that they have the power it remains to be seen if they have the knowledge.
>I suspect their discipline though rigorous and sometimes useful, is
>somewhat like soil testing. Better used as a data point than a holy tome.
>
>It seems to me like we want to legislate things away from our own control
>far too often, and declare victory and throw a big back patting party. Now
>the FDA will control something they have always claimed they have no
>authority over, I'm sure there are plenty of people rolling their eyes and
>spinning in their chairs at the FDA today. Of course its easy for me to
>say that being a full time skeptic, in reality it may all just work out
>fine.
>
>The important thing is I'm usually wrong and don't know what I'm talking
>about, its just how this whole food safety act strikes me.
>
>--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
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>From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>Subject: [Livingontheland] Food Safety Modernization Act
>To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 9:01 PM
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>Food Safety Modernization Act: Putting the Focus on Prevention
>Posted by Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. on January 03, 2011 at 04:53 PM EST
>The White House Blog
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>http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/03/food-safety-modernization-act-putting-focus-prevention
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