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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