Re: New Definitions For Organic -Reply

Rich Molini (richmo@indy.net)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:30:00 +0000

Grace,
The devil is in the details, and the rule's details are an
attempt to blur the differences betweeen conventional agribusiness and
organic with a subsequent evisceration of the organic community which
was built from the soil up not from the attorney's pen down.

Rich Molini
Indiana Chapter-OCIA

Grace J Gershuny wrote:
>
> Yeah, I like this definition a lot--but that's because I wrote it. It also
> happens to be pretty close (not exact, but close) to the definition of a
> system of organic farming & handling that's included in the proposed rule
> put out by USDA. Surprised? Sure, because all anybody's talking about
> is how terrible it is and how it all out to be thrown out and rewritten. I
> have just read the latest draft of IFOAM's organic standards, and could
> find very few places where they differed in substance from USDA's
> proposal.
>
> Grace Gershuny
> USDA National Organic Program staff
>
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