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  • From: "delannw" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Attacks on organic farming
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:35:30 -0500

ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Not your imagination.&nbsp; I didn't go check out the website but this sounds exactly like the charges Dennis Avery and his son level at organics all the time.&nbsp;They are relentless, well funded and focussed.&nbsp; It isn't even important to them that their assertions go unsupported.&nbsp; If they can get these claims out in front of the general public often enough they ARE going to damage organic sales and prices.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I have had customers this summer ask me about the&nbsp;assertions&nbsp;that were made by Avery last winter on the ABC news show 20/20.&nbsp; The e coli issue was the big bomb that came out of that.&nbsp; I sell lettuce and lettuce mix.&nbsp; How nice to have to discuss e coli contamination of lettuce at the market.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>The OCIA has some sort of response on their website and I believe Organic Gardening does too.&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>If you are interested I have the CDC data they used to 'support' their claim about the dangers of e coli and organic food.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>We've all seen people screw around with data to say what they want.&nbsp; Those data indicate that the most likely way to be poisoned by e coli is to be a kid in daycare or an elderly person in a retirement home.&nbsp; However, in that data set there were some cases of people who got e coli from some lettuce...but I have never been able to track down the grower.&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I have heard that the grower was certified organic (US grower) and lost their certification before the incident.&nbsp; That seems irrelevant to me.&nbsp; Who knows why they lost their certification if, indeed, they did?&nbsp; And, who knows if loss of certification had anything to do with the presence of e coli in the lettuce...which was consumed by people in two different states (one on the east coast and one in the midwest...as I recall).&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>In any case, I emailed Avery and the Hudson Institute several times last winter to get some information about the grower but they didn't respond.&nbsp; Go to the Hudson Institute's website and look throught the pages on their food program.&nbsp; Also look at their list of contributors.&nbsp; It won't surprise you that chemical fertilizer companies and GMO seed companies are funding the people who make these claims.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Del Williams</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><STRONG>Farmer in the Del</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Clifton IL</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>

  • Attacks on organic farming, Robert Waldrop, 07/16/2000
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    • Re: Attacks on organic farming, delannw, 07/17/2000

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