Fwd: Do organic growers really have to pay pay pay pay pay

sal (sals@rain.org)
Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:26:29 -0800

What is going on when organic growers have to pay fees and do paper work and
chemical farmers get subsidies. NO fair and this new law makes all organic
growers pay ,pay,pay to prove they are telling the truth every year,year after
year after year. What happen to less government and let the private sector do
it and what happen to less paper work and what happen to helping the small
business and not burdening them? the USDA speaks with a fork toung. says one
thing does another. the USDA says they want to help small farmers so what do
they do ? they lay a bigger burden on our backs. Give organic back to the
people. these are not the droids your looking for . move along!
>
>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 State soon 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 all .  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
>An organic growers homepage check out
>
><http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html>http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
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