Re: Avery's article

Charlie Griffin (cgriffin@facts.ksu.edu)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:08:58 CST6DST

Greg's comments are similar to what I remember reading recently. I saw
some material about 6 months ago that compared salmonella rates in
conventional vs 'organic' or 'natural' (don't remember the term
particularly, it may have been 'free-range') off the grocery shelf in a
city on the east coast. There were samples from only two producers of
the organic. In some followup info, (sorry, can't remember where it
came from) the two producers were clearly described as raising the
chickens in large confinement settings, much as Greg just described,
and of course utilizing very similar slaughter facilities.

As someone who occasionally raises up to a few hundred broilers in a
small home-based operation, I decided there was virtually nothing about
that study that shed any light on anything I'm doing. I would like to
see a good comparative study that really looked at the 'safety' issue
for chicken raised in a pastured setting following what I consider to
be standard good practices. That study didn't do it.

It's a good reminder that 'organic' and 'sustainable' aren't the same
terms.

Charlie Griffin
Manhattan, KS

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