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  • From: tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:26:29 -0600


I had no idea, John. Who made these laws - British parliament? Absentee landlords? Same crowd that engineered the famous famine?

paul

On 5/29/2014 5:40 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

Insanity is right. And most definitely they are trying to destroy everything people depend on because this makes you dependent on them and forces you to become a good consumer.

For instance : Spreading compost is illegal within 20 meters of any farm track, any hedge or the smallest water course (of which we have many miles on the land) but it is allowed to spread chemical fertilizer in all these places. We make our own compost but chemical fertilizer we would have to buy. I think that explains it all. But the same goes for almost anything. It is now illegal to fell a tree with a chainsaw. You now have to go follow a week long course costing $ 4 T. Then you get a license to go felling any tree you want.
You can no longer repair storm damage to your own house. First you have to follow a course to get a license costing a few thousand and then you need a plan made up by an architect. And after the repairs the architect needs to sign that the repairs were according to all regulations. And that costs more thousands.
It is now illegal to have any plants on the land, even natives, that might just possibly be used for medicinal purposes.

It is obvious that the great idea is to make people completely impotent to help themselves in any way.
John

Well I don't understand what's going on there. Is the govt trying to
destroy everything people depend on? Trees & shrubs? A crime? Insane.

On 5/29/2014 4:43 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
I know Paul but being really organic is a war in the EU. Have been breaking regulations for a long time and we have severely suffered for it. We get fined (almost $ 10 T last year alone) for having trees and shrubs on the land as just one example out of hundreds. Most neighbours rectified that by setting fire to all their shrubs and trees and they don't get fined. Doing what is right makes it very difficult to survive financially.
Imo we (all of us) are in an ever faster race to the bottom and I have not been able to do much to stop that. I am absolutely certain that I have sequestered thousands of tons of carbon (while breaking lots of regulations) in my soil over the years but all around me I have seen millions of tons go up in smoke and more millions of tons being washed away by rain water.
John


Looking at the actual press release
http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/

Forget regulations; the govt program is DOA far as I'm concerned. The
actual organic practices are the key. Organic properly understood is the
right way and economically necessary and doable in and of itself. I do
it because it works, and go beyond it with intensive methods based on
agroecology. The methods are what sequesters carbon - not phony baloney
regulations.

paul

On 5/29/2014 3:26 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

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True Paul but as an organic farmer I saw first hand all the regulations that make this impossible in practice.
John


this is big.

Organic Farming ‘Could Sequester All Carbon Emissions’
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/05/27/organic-farming-could-sequester-all-carbon-emissions/

Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/








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