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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Re: Why We Need Standards and Market Rules
  • Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:20:30 -0500


On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:56:37 -0600, Alan Brant <castoriver AT juno.com>
wrote:

> The practices you recommended, of following chickens with vegetables
> is
>exactly what Bart was bewailing as unsafe & apparently against organic
>certification rules. neither the pig manure nor the chicken manure would
>have been composted. I'm confused.

The devil take mandatory "O" certification - those that insist on
having OC are welcome to having to deal with USDA butting their
nose into this issue and the 3rd party "certifiers" implementing
NOP standards. I will have none of it, myself.

Bart was not saying that all growers, organic or otherwise, are
incapable using manure and compost safely in food production
destined for sale to the public, but that _some_ of them _may_ be
lax, irresponsible or even incompetent.

If I follow chickes with vegetables I will make very sure that the
food I produce is safe for _me_ to eat; it will then, of course,
be perfectly safe for others to eat also as my own standards are
probably much higher than would even be required by NOP.



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  • Re: Why We Need Standards and Market Rules, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 03/12/2000

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