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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Organic seed starter mix in Kentucky
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:37:23 -0400

On Mon, 24 May 2004 09:35:27 -0500, you wrote:

>Reply to: "Bush Officials Weaken Organic Food Standards: Public Shut Out "
>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>
>Barb -
>
>The NOP is a standard.
>
>It doesn't matter if the organic standard comes NOP, CCOF,
>Oregon Tilth, OCIA, or NOFA.
>
>Your suggestion that "the federal "organic" rules now allow just about
>any product that's not actually food to be labeled organic whether it is
>or not, no questions asked"..... is off base.
>

Oh, is it really? It appears to be a pretty darned accurate
statement to me.

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The changes in the National Organic Program standards, made
in April, expand the use of antibiotics and hormones in
organic dairy cows, allow more pesticides in the organic
arsenal and for the first time let organic livestock eat
potentially contaminated fishmeal.

Program administrators also reversed themselves and said
seafood, pet food and body care products can use "organic"
on their labels without meeting any standards at all.

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The rest of the article may be read here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/22/MNGMT6QD0H1.DTL&type=printable

or here:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0522-09.htm


Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry





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