Market Farming

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First I suggest you consider how the brand or logo could be policed. The
regular testing that states have used for organic certification is
expensive. What independent labs would do this testing and how would they
be paid? Exactly what standards of purity would be used for pesticide or
herbicide contamination?  I assume the growers would bear the cost of
testing. 

There's another trickier question. If you want to guarantee it's free of
GMOs from the seed used, how would you do that? The contamination is
spreading in all sorts of unexpected places. That kind of testing is
expensive, yet it's a selling point for market farmers and one strike
against the so-called USDA organic label. Or are there other ways of
guaranteeing our produce is GMO-free? Perhaps reliable seed sources
approved by the new organization? 


paul & barb - on the continental divide
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On 10/15/2002 at 2:29 PM jay gee wrote:


>Unfortunately, everybody telling people different things may have
>no real effect on your individual causes and actually work to further
>the causes of those who have coopted the "organic" label.
>
>From a branding (affecting the public consciousness) perspective,
>you must coalesce around the concept of producing a term you
>can all embrace, put up money to trademark and promote it and
>protect it from dilution by those who see it as a threat.
>
>This entails funding a non-profit corporation, or legally entitled
>association, getting a board of directors and officers (all unpaid
>for now) and going to work to decide how exactly you want
>to proceed.
>