>I would like to point out that I am not an advocate of conventional
farming
> in any way - in fact I am a standards manager for an organic certification
> scheme
I hate to split hairs on language use, but I think this is vital:
What is "conventional?" I would rather see a term like Maximum profit
farming or Highly intensified farming or Big business farming. I also
hate the word commercial: all farming has something to do with
commerce unless it is subsistance. Maybe a good term would be Hi-Tech
farming.
>
>
- but whoever is putting out this scaremongering rubbish is simply
> playing into the hands of the multinational (not just american) companies
> who are working so hard to prevent the consumer finding out just what is in
> the food they eat.
Hear Hear, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.. I think these
people either have little knowledge, or if they are knowledgeable
they are extremists who have a passion to see a falsehood as a truth
or they have a hidden agenda i.e. they want to scare people into
buying their products etc.
> kathryn
>
>
> Kathryn Marsh, Joint Standards Manager, Organic Trust, Tobersool,
> Balbriggan, Co Dublin, Ireland
> Phone 0353 1 841 3681
> kmarsh@iol.ie
>
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