Re: IFOAM statement at Maastricht -Reply

J. S. (janebug@hotmail.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:24:53 PDT

Well put. It is statements like these from IFOAM that not only turn off the
rest of the world but prevent the rest of us from making real progress at
all levels.

Jane

>From: Ted Rogers <TROGERS@ars.usda.gov>
>To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu, danamex@mail.internet.com.mx
>CC: naos@agron.iastate.edu, ITCALUMET@aol.com
>Subject: IFOAM statement at Maastricht -Reply
>Date: 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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