Re: sanet-mg-digest V1 #286

sal (sals@rain.org)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:20:28 -0700

With friends like Eric and Cecila and the OFMA who need enemy.  Eric feels
organic growing is only for those who make the big bucks not us hobby organic
growers and those hanging on by a thread and live the life because it is right
and as he has said before many a times if you don't make the bucks you can not
call your self organic. It is folks like Eric that got us into this mess to
begin with.  Sorry Eric but  that was a bad analysis for the poor and good for
the rich who must have you in their pocket as I see it Eric still feels we can
work it out with the fox (USDA)and that the fox will guard the chickens not to
worry.  . Do not trust any one that says who you must pay off someone to be
organic .   Free organic free speech .Will Eric Kindberg and Cecilia Bowman
pay
our  fees and my inspection cost and my residue testing .NO !   Down with the
OFMA,NOP,USDA and Eric and Cecilia and all the other organic Gestapo types
that
want to take away our rights and fee us and paper work us to death. Those who
want to suck money out of the organic movement have been made manifest.   The
scum has floated to the top of the pot .  I always wondered who were these
folks that are making the life of organic growers so hard,..  Well now we
know
who to thank Steave. .  Down with big government,down with paying all these
paper pushers stop the rape of the organic movement and just say NO! to Eric
NO! to the USDA NO! to the OFMA and NO to the NOP.  We are not the droids your
looking for .  Move alond.

At 11:41 PM 4/26/98 -0400, Sprinkraft wrote:
>
>To: Steve Moore: OFMA undertook an analysis of the RFA in 1996. Eric Kindberg
>was the lead author. Cecilia Bowman in Indiana also served as research
editor.
>The OFMA analysis of the Proposed Rule also covers some of those concerns.
The
>RFA analysis is a year and half old, but still useful. I hope that it is of
>some service. Please refer to
<http://www.iquest.net/ofma>http://www.iquest.net/ofma. The RFA analysis
>link is half way down the page.
>
>Steve Sprinkel
>OFMA
>Austin
>
>10/24/96
>
>AN ANALYSIS OF CONCERNS REGARDING THE USDA/NOP PROPOSED RULE, THEIR IMPACT ON
>SMALL BUSINESSES AND PROPOSALS TO ALLEVIATE NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON SMALL
>BUSINESSES
>
><< From: "S. Moore" <sfmoore@earthlink.net>
> >To: "BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST (E-mail)" <bd-l@biodynamics.com>,
> >        "Lawrence London (E-mail)" <london@sunsite.unc.edu>,
> >        <organic-certification@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
> >Subject: USDA Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0
> >
> >In the uproar over the absurdity of USDA's proposed rules I have heard or
> >seen very little about the Regulatory Flexibility Act analysis contained
> >therein.  I believe this could provide a legal pathway for virtually all
> >organic growers to seek relief from the insanity that USDA seeks to visit
> >upon us.  The RFA, as amended in 1996, provides that a small business which
> >is adversely affected by agency action is entitled to judicial review of
> >agency compliance with certain aspects of RFA.  The agency is required to
> >prepare an analysis of the economic impact on small entities of its
> >regulatory action.  All of this appears to me to be a possible legal
path to
> >overcome one of the worst features of OFPA, mandatory certification.
> >However, as with all other aspects of the rule making process, these issues
> >probably need to be raised during the public comment period.  The comments
> >on RFA, which I am submitting personally and on behalf of the BD
> >Association, are presented below.  I urge other concerned parties to also
> >submit comments to USDA on this issue.
> >
> >Steve Moore
> >Moore Ranch
> >Carpinteria, CA
> >sfmoore@earthlink.net
> >================= >>
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