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["sal" <sals@rain.org>]

check out an organic farmers homepage
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
sals@rain.,org
----- Original Message -----
From: <kandmhfarm@sprintmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760


> Wonder if he feels the same way about pesticide drift in his backyard?
>
> FROM AgBioView website <http://agbioview.listbot.com/cgi-bin/>
> Date:  Apr 27 2000 16:07:40 EDT
> From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
> Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
>
>  From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
>  Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
>
>  IF the organic farmers/retailers expect to sell a value-added product,
> then
>  they, not anyone else, is responsible for all of the necessary costs of
>  producing and marketing the value-added product.  So they are responsible
>  for the costs of segregation-identification.  If those costs soar beyond
>  any reasonable consumer willingess to pay, so be it.
>
>  To impose on the rest of agriculture the liability for the organic
> farmers
>  silly preferences and loss of value added return is ridiculous.  The
>  organic industry is demanding the right to sue other farmers if their
>  harvests are "contaminated" with biotech pollen and thus destroys their
>  "organic" crop.  This is a backdoor imposition of organic standards on
> the
>  rest of the farm community and it is absurd.
>
>  Alex A. Avery
>  Director of Research and Education
>  Center for Global Food Issues
>  Hudson Institute
>  P.O. Box 202
>  Churchville, VA 24421
>  (540) 337-6354
>  fax: (540) 337-8593
>  email: aavery@rica.net
>
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