Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
What has been happening for several years now to pave the way for
WalMart to
mass market cheap organic produce is a gradual weakening or the definition of
'organic', not that the USDA definition isn't weak enough already.
Back in the unshaven hippie days of organic food a pile of manure was a good
sign and chemical nitrates were completely verboden! Now the manure pile
does not qualify as organic unless it is turned and mixed in a very certain
unproductive way which is out of the reach of small producers. Yet chemical
nitrate is permitted since you COULD be using imported and expensive bat guano; but
chemical nitrate produced from fossil fuel is CHEMICALLY the same thing so
it's OK to use it (up to 20% of total nitrogen).
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