Re: "self" article
sal (sals@rain.org)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 06:31:40 -0800
I disagree with Diane and feel we should point out to the media that
organic farmers have to pay for all this and let the press know that this
law is not fair to the small organic farmers . Who do these folks think
they are taxing organic growers and letting chemical growers skate. An
organic grower should not pay one extra cent for growing in a ecological
and enviroment safe way or nor should they do one extra bit of paper work
unless <bold><bigger>all farmers </bigger></bold>that voluntary sell food
inform the public on how it is grown. you know that according to this
law an organic grower can fumigate with menthol bromine and plant trees
and not harvest them for 3 years calling the fruit organic. These
factory farms do not farm in the spirt of organic growing so they have to
brake it down to a act that will let them go on contaminating the
enviroment in the name of <bold><bigger>USDA organic
</bigger></bold>which is not even close to the <bold>real spirit of
organic growing</bold>. They are taking a grass roots movement and dream
and turning it into a bureaucratic nightmare. they are stealing our
words and perverting our ideals . Taxing the small grower and burdening
them with paper work and They are taking the spirt out of organic growing
and stealing our labels that we have work so hard to promote. This law
puts us in bed with the USDA who are mixing up life on earth as we know
it and changing the DNA of life forms on earth and not labeling that
handy work and if fact forcing the rest of the world to except the USDA=20
idea of a new world power also all these herbicides in our water and
pesticide on are food are USDA approved. Let the media sink its teeth
into this one. They will find it is not the organic grower but the USDA
that needs regulation. It is the USDA that is not informing the people
and refuse to label their USDA Frankenstein wickedness. We should be
working to make all foods organic and the chemical farmers are the ones
that should be regulated and tax. They have it back words all farmers
should be organic and all chemicals used to grow food should be listed on
the label. after all the customers need protection not just organic
customers but all customers and lets give them real protection and make
any farmer that voluntary sells food as good go through the same bullshit
they are going to make organic farmers go through. Make all food
certified not just organic food as all people need information to help
them chose what to buy. If it is the customer that needs to be informed
than all farmers should have to provide the same information and go
through the same certification if they voluntary sell their products as
food. This is our chance to make all farmers inform the people as to what
they use to produce food and not discriminate against organic growers=20
and the USDA should label food that has had their DNA changed by adding
RDNA from who knows where. I hope the USDA does leave a door open for
RDNA so we can in public comment can wake the people in the US up to what
is happening to their food supply. the harm that may come from RDNA and
the harm all the other USDA approved pesticides and herbicides etc are
causing and let them see it is not the organic grower they have to worry
about but the USDA and the chemical farmers. Make everyone go through
the same certification if they sell food to the public organic and non
organic and let the people see what is being used to produce their food.=20
. At 09:46 AM 11/9/97 -0800, Diane Cooner wrote:
>Greetings to all :-)
>
>I too saw the recent issue of Self magazine while on line at the market=20
>the other day. "Can You Trust Organic" blaring from the front cover made=20
>me think about our community's infighting on fine points, and wonder=20
>about the impression that the organic industry is making on the general=20
>population. Obviously, it's not as good as we could hope for!
>
>After quickly breezing thru the article, I picked up on all of the same=20
>points that charles b. did in his post, and felt a little bit better=20
>about what was getting "put out in the world" about organic. But that=20
>headline was a real stopper, and I believe that we need to get more=20
>unified within the "o" community, or it will get picked apart and=20
>trivialized like everything else that the media sinks its teeth into.
>
>I would rather have seen a head line that said "Organic is the way to
go!=20
>Trust your local farmer! Patronize your local CSA!" When the media calls=20
>to ask for input in their articles, we DO have a choice how to present=20
>ourselves, and what we feel is important. I'm not saying coverup the=20
>dissent, but accentuate our common ground. It's a matter of=20
perception.
>
>diane on mt. jackson
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