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  • From: Robert Farr <rbfarr AT erols.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Organic industry vs. organicmovement
  • Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:05:10 -0400


It's even worse that just "organic".

Look at what Joel Salatin is fighting - a government who will let him
process his own chickens and turkeys on-site, but won't let him process
his cows.

He was able to prove to the USDA - their testing - that his facility was
TWENTY-FIVE times cleaner than the certified USDA butchering facility
down the road. Joel's point: clean is clean. And that's right. But
he still can't process his cows at Polyface - he has to use the
USDA-approved facility, though it can't meet Salatin's standards of
cleanliness. They just happen to have a piece of equipment the USDA
mandates they purchase.

This is another way ag. policy has enslaved the rural population: it's
priced them out of the game.

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