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- From: "William Barry" <unclebil AT bright.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: organic? not likely!
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:51:34 -0500
Jill's suggestion about a letter to the mother is fine. But you also need to
inform her she is violating state and federal law. Feeling sorry for a
single mother with children is one thing. But someone else will not be soft
hearted enough to let her continue and she will be at least fined. Could
she afford that? Wouldn't it be better to straighten her out now before the
law gets involved?
Especially, with her "signs" all over with "organic" on them, someone will
turn her in. You can count on it..
Using the word "organic" without certification is federal not just state
anymore.(unless you can prove less than $5000 in organic sales). What
would be the liability repercussion of selling non-organic food as organic
to someone allergic to the chemicals, antibiotics, etc. I wouldn't want
that lawsuit.
It is not a game anymore and she needs to be informed. If she continues
afterwards, then the fault and liability is her own and no one else's.
Looking the other way got us into this "Frankenfoods" debacle.
Bill & Linda Barry
Barry Farm
http://www.barryfarm.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:36 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: organic? not likely!
> Jacqueline,
> I hear what you are saying, and there has to be a remedy to such a
> situation.
> First, are you certain that she is promoting all of it as organic, or
> just what she grew?
>
> Second, I think your advice about certification is good for assurance.
> However, even with certification, a person could cheat - could get their
> fields certified and then ship in stuff, claiming it was grown on the
land.
> I do want to caution you that there are people out there like me who
do
> grow organically, but have no certification. As we discussed earlier on
> this list, it is not always a good financial decision to get certified
when
> one is so small. I do not cheat, do not resell others' produce.
>
> So, honesty always figures in.
>
> If you are sure you have your facts, then perhaps a letter to this
> woman, telling your experience of some customers who are looking for
organic
> produce and why, for instance your customer with cancer.
> Jill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
> To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 8:17 AM
> Subject: [market-farming] organic? not likely!
>
>
> > Hi, up the road about 1/2 a mile is a woman with a small fruit stand -
> > makes fantastic sales. She's growing on one acre and her father has a
> small
> > farm. The problem is that in order for her to sell so much variety she
> and
> > dad have been going to other farmers and buying their produce (tree
fruits
> > and berries and some vegies) then selling at the fruit stand with large
>
> > organic signs everywhere in about a 1/4 mile radius. They even bought
> > non-organic blueberries off the backend of a semi-truck from Vancouver
(a
> > large metropolitan area in BC). He tried to sell some to me and said
the
> > lady up the road just bought some for resale.
> >
> > I just want your input as to your thoughts on this and how you would
> handle
> > it . Mostly it just irks me. I had a customer who had just put a
bundle
> of
> > money down on purifying his body (has cancer) and was looking for
organic,
> > last year I instructed him that to sell organic one must have a
> certificate
> > and he can ask to see it. I don't like to see innocent people get hurt.
> > Jacqueline
> >
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organic? not likely!,
Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: organic? not likely!, Del Williams, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jeffery Blake, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Bill & Linda Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Bina Carey, 02/10/2001
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