Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

Sometimes - The big Vaner Eyke dairy in California was decertified.  It was a 3500 cow operation and while Aurora was only given a slap on the wrists they did greatly diminish the amount of cows they were running on their desert dairy .....

I totally agree about big ag in general and big organic as well but to paint such a broad brush really is a disservice to the growers that follow the rules and really believe in organic growing.....

This is just a case of vote with your dollars.  If given a choice between local/ small companies or cascadian/Horizon type companies choose the former even if it costs a bit more......I wont buy dole organic bananas myself or heinz organic ketchup KWIM?

Blessings,

Aliza
Some Kinda Wonderful Farm
Ashland, Oregon


“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Sun, 6/26/11, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Former inspector lifts lid on the murky world oforganic food
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011, 8:08 PM

Probably yes. But remember the Newman's Own brand. When the Board found banned ingredient in the process they just gave them a friendly warning to correct the problem and they're still on the grocery shelves. And that big organic fertilizer company in California where they found what it containedda wasn't organic. But a lot of organic growers depended on it, so they ruled the growers wouldn't be decertified for all using it since it wasn't their fault.

We're not even discussing the egg farms where they fake it & claim thousands of organic chickens have access to outdoors & fresh air, or the continuing problems with organic dairy. When there's a problem with a big grower or processor just change the rules to allow it.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/26/2011 at 5:50 PM Aliza Vanderlip wrote:

>well that isnt true paul.  of course its only a fraction of who should
>be de-certified but yes it does happen.....
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>Blessings

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