IFOAM statement at Maastricht -Reply

Ted Rogers (TROGERS@ars.usda.gov)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:31:09 -0600

snip: It's logical, therefore, to conclude
"organic agriculture is Sustainability put into practice".

Having become quite immune to IFOAM's pompous and ill founded
statements I find that I am surprisingly livid at the contemplation of this
particular rendition.

Organiculture, as I learned it, holds the same potential today that it has
for the past seventy five years. As a SOIL based system of
agroecosystem management it offers the future possibility of long-term
Sustainability. To project that potential on to the current practice of
organic agriculture and to make such pronouncements as the above
insures that the "Organic Movement" will find no place in the leadership
of competent agriculture in the next century.

Best,

Ted Rogers, Biologist
USDA-Office of Pest Management Policy

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