Do organic growers really have to pay pay pay pay pay
sal (sals@rain.org)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:04:58 -0800
Free speech. What does that mean? My right to tell my audience what I
want .
My right to get up on my soap box and tell those that will hear I grow organic
and not have to pay anyone one cent for that privilege. My right to tell my
customer how I grow the food he get from me. Free speech. one of the things I
don't like about all this is the fees every one wants and the fact we are
force
to pay them all. At first I was paying a certifier and inspector because the
folks I sell too wanted me to be certified . so I paid the certifier and
the
inspector and every one was happy then I get a letter in the mail that says
now I have to also pay the state of Ca. and go through a state inspection and
now the USDA is telling me I also have to pay the Fed USDA and do paper work
for them and that the certifier will charge more because the USDA will tax
them also and they will have to pass the cost down . I don't see how the
USDA.
can force us to pay off all these folks and force the farmer to pay for this
whole bureaucratic crap shoot where as chemical farmers that also sell
food to
the people don't have to go through the same stuff at all. How many
bureaucratic pencil pushers does one have to pay off to use the word
organic. I
am paying off 4 people now the local chapter of CCOF and main chapter of CCOF
the inspector and the USDA will make it 5 and you also want me to pay off
some
residue tester Hundreds of $. that is 6. what is this a bad dream Organic
growers should not have to pay 1 cent extra just because they grow and sell
organic. WE have been sold out. Let the farmer pay for it. Don't worry the
farmer will pay for it. bull shit Organic food is all ready too high and the
grower will have to eat the cost of this whole bad joke. add up the cost of
all the certifiers , inspectors, states,residue testers,USDA and their
gas,their computers,their hotel rooms their paper our paper and it is the
grower that will have to bare it all. . This is not free speech. that is
what
I don't like about most the folks against the law they don't care that the
farmer pays. Most of them don't care because the farmer is paying them. If
the
feds make a law let them pay for it and if the state makes a dumb organic law
make them cover the cost or let those that break the law pay for it . I have
not done anything wrong that I should have to pay off all these folks every
year year after year.. . I am tired of every one that wants to make a
definition of organic gets to charge those that use it money. Every one wants
to get into the act. the USDA are not just telling the growers they have to
pay the USDA protection money but the USDA is also saying we must also pay off
a certifier and some inspector and some residue tester and on and on every
year
year after year and the cost keeps going up, for the rest of or organic
lives. like the every ready bunny rabbit it just keep going and going. I say
not one extra cent. Everyone and anyone that tells me that in order for me to
sell organic I have to pay them a surcharge is not my friend. what are the
fees ? good luck getting an answer to that one! 1 cent is too
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