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["Yaya Balinci" <yaya@telus.net>]

Over here in NA the only sector of the food production industry that showed
a profit was the organic food sector. For the same reason "the big stores
are motivated by a short termist profit ethic rather than a deep commitment
to sustainability, and always will be?" I feel that anyone that supports
supermarkets is interested for selfish gain of health (short term) rather
than long term commitment to sustainability. The long term human being
realizes that we do not own the land we live on, we are borrowing it from
our children.

Michael Hollihn,
Sustainable Forest-Farm-Garden Design
Ecosystem Mapping For Sustainable Production of foods and materials,
I use tree-free paper and digital video documentation
yaya@telus.net
604.253.2536
http://www3.telus.net/circleworks/sustmed2.htm
Vancouver, BC, Canada
*better known as NW Coastal Turtle Island
----- Original Message -----
From: "graham" <gburnett@unisonfree.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Organic honeymoon period over????


> I noticed on the news a while back that Iceland stores are to 'rethink'
> their policy on stocking organic lines as sales have not been as high as
> hoped of late. Also, my local Co-op store told me yesterday they wouldn't
be
> stocking organic tea any longer (presumably because nobody except me buys
> it???)... Does this mean the 'organic craze' is over?
>
> Doesn't it also point up the fact that (as if we didn't already know it),
> the big stores are motivated by a short termist profit ethic rather than a
> deep commitment to sustainability, and always will be?
>
> What's the bigger picture, and our next achievable step in keeping organic
> and sustainability on the public agenda??
>
> Graham Burnett
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> Westcliff On Sea
> Essex
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