Re: Organic Standards for Livestock

Greg & Lei Gunthorp (hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:45:04 -0500

Sal,
I'd like to hear more about this organic farming without crop rotations,
compost, covercrops, biodiversity, fresh air for the barn yard animals,
management intensive grazing, rare breeds of livestock, heirloom varieties
of crops, op corn, etc. It all sounds very contrary to the very nature of
the concept of organic to me and I know of no-one in the midwest that has a
sustainable system(this is a sustainable ag list, not an organic one) that
takes care of economics, environment, and social attributes who doesn't use
a quite a few of the afore mentioned list.
Best wishes,
Greg Gunthorp
Free Range hog farmer

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> From: Sal <sals@rain.org>
> To: Greg & Lei Gunthorp <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com>; sanet
<sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Organic Standards for Livestock
> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 3:48 PM
>
> your way of thinking bothers me. I think u can be organic and not do
crop
> rotations I can understand why the law just tells us what not to use
because
> this telling us what to use is wrong. wrong wrong . u can be organic
> without crop rotations,compost,covercrop etc. this telling us we have to
do
> this and we have to do that is bull. I don't use synthics so I am
organic
> if I rotate or not. quit telling us how to farm. I i feed organic feed
> and I keep chickens in a pen so the coyotes don't eat them I am still
> organic. u can tell me what not to use but this telling us organic
growers
> how we must farm is bs. this whole organic tax is bs. some of the
organic
> folks want to make their way law. this is getting nuts. I don't rotate,
I
> have spent years building my soil I don't have to add anything or do
> anything . If you don't add anything or do any of that other stuff your
> organic . these folks want to force us to farm their way. it not about
> organic it is about the only way to do it is their way. o you have to
not
> pin up your chickens you have to do it our way. organic is organic .
dam
> organic Gestapo now they want to tell us how to farm and their way is the
> right way. sure they know everything bull shit these are the folks that
got
> all this police action going like we are bad guys or something and have
to
> be told how to raise chickens or food. one year the inspector told me I
had
> to cut my weeds or I was not organic . these guys are really getting
nuts.
> no I don't use compost no I don't covercrop ( I may plant a few fava
beans )
> I can farm by neglect and still be organic. If I don't use non organic
> stuff I am organic . I don't need a army of police to farm organic .
never
> did for 6000 years never need anyone looking over my shoulder. you want
to
> police someone go police those that use non organic stuff. tax them.
this
> singling out organic growers for organic tax and register like a sex
> offender and load them up with bs paper work and make them jump through
> hoops just to be organic is nuts. I have to fill out paper work for three
> different groups of people and pay them all protection money like the
Mafia
> or something. I have a certifier why do I need a state and fed gov to
> also taxes me why should I pay so many people to be organic each one u
have
> to kiss up too and bow down too and they don't do shit to help u farm .
> they are all on a power trip. everyone is saying down with big
government
> yet these nuts gave the word organic to the USDA and took it away from
the
> people. power trippers. now they want to tell me not only what not to
use
> but also what to use. why don't they just come over and farm for me.
they
> all want to tell u what to do yet they don't do shit. paying all these
> guys supporting all these folks for what? you might like it I don't. if
I
> sell one avocado I have to pay a certifier ,a inspector, the state , the
> feds, the picking order tax on avocado etc. on and on I have to pay all
> these folks for selling avocados . and bow down to each one and fill out
> paper work for each one and pay each one year after year and thats not
all
> also the person I sell to also has to pay all these folks and do paper
work
> for all these folks just to carry my stuff. they get paid more for the
> avocados than me . they take the money right off the top. who need this
bs.
> then the avocados are taxed in the store once again. don't u guys think
> this is getting nuts. how many political pencil pusher does it take to
see
> that one small farm is organic. now they want to tell us how we have to
do
> it not just what not to use. bs
>
>
> sorry but bs
>
> check out a organic growers web page
> http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg & Lei Gunthorp <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com>
> To: sanet <sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 7:26 AM
> Subject: Fw: Organic Standards for Livestock
>
>
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Sprinkraft@aol.com
> > > To: hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com
> > > Subject: Organic Standards for Livestock
> > > Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:34 AM
> > >
> > > Greg and Lei:
> > >
> As I recently wrote, there
> > are
> > > few concepts that can be considered "philosophical" in the law, but
crop
> > > rotations is one of them-and what needs to be uncovered is the
science
> > behind
> > > the prescription.
>

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