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["Lamb-Vines" <lambvines@odsy.net>]

I would have to say Alex is pretty silly. His stance on GMs especially.  So
organic is added on value.  That one is new to me.
Lamb-Vines


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From: sal <sals@rain.org>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 7:41 AM
Subject: Fw: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1760


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