Market Farming

["The Davis Family" <dldavis AT texas.net>]

I watched the 20/20 segment last night and boy was that a slam on organic
farming.  You might want to know that Dennis Avery is Senior Fellow for the
Center for Global Food Issue www.hudson.org .He has a book entitled Saving
the Planet with Pesticies and Plastics.  Kind of tells you where he's coming
from.  The spokes person for the organic marketing association was a laugh.
Couldn't they find someone that could speak with passion for the organic
farming side. It was a rather one sided show .

Dan
Redfield Farm
Dale, Tx
-----Original Message-----
From: Hook Family <guldann AT ix.netcom.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:15 PM
Subject: My e-mail to 20/20


>This is what I wrote to 20/20
>Your piece on organic food gets an F. It was very poorly researched and
very
>one sided.  You may want to dig a bit into the back ground of D. Avery and
>see who he actually works for.
>You may want to test the soil, air and water in the farm belt.  You may
want
>to learn the diffence between compost and manure!  You may have said that
>even conventional farmers use manure compost.  You may want to read a set
of
>organic growing regulations. You might want to visit an organic farm.
>An the bit about organic faming wasting land that was laughable.  Weeds can
>be hand or machine weeded you don't have to just sray them, or plow up an
>additonal field to compensate. Plus lets measure acres of most organic farm
>vs conventional farms. Then calculate the pounds of vegetables produced per
>acre. Next time do some research.  Beth
>
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