Re: The Organic Landscape (long; was Organic EXTREEMLYCheaper) -Reply

Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:29:08 -0400

Snipped most of Ted's message leaving the last two paragrapghs. I can
honestly say when you folks start discussing the large economic big
agricultural picture ya loose me a bit (ok alot ). But this last paragraph
about the organics "movement" painting themselves into a corner and the
discussion of why organics has not and may never become the conventional
mode of feeding the country/world got me thinking. My observation most
organic growers are small local growers, there are a few large growers
following conventional packaging shipping models but not many. I would
suggest this is due to the fact that most of the organic growers WANT to
stay local and not get on the food producing treadmill. As the saying goes
comparing organic vs. conventional maybe like comparing apples and
oranges(when talking about food distribution)
That said however I do think maybe idealistically "all" the food in the US
could be produce organically, however the fly in the oinment is still
distribution/packaging/ middlemen............Thanks from a tiny grower who's
happy in my little corner :) Beth

>They have in fact now panted themselves into a corner. That corner will
more than likely be very small , only time will tell whether they can expand
that corner into a slightly larger space. At this point I see it as always
being a corner, modest at best. There was a time that they were miles ahead
of their competition, if they had moved forward with deliberation and vision
they may have even absorbed their competition by setting the standard by
which all the food and agriculture green labels would have been judged.
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>The future now belongs to the Groff*s of this continent. This is of course
to much of a burden to put on Steve and his family alone but I see them as
archetypes of all those innovators out there who are designing hybrid
systems. These may be the bridges that we and our progeny need to get from
here to there. I just hope our grandchildren will read Wendell Berry and
*get it.*
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>Best,
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>Ted
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