RE: free range and land grants

Cole, Ralph (Rcole@theitgroup.com)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:23:58 -0700

One of our chicken customers (who just moved to Tennessee from New York)
called the extension agent to ask where she could find fresh organic
produce. The answer: "You don't want that. It doesn't look very good."
This customer lives in the county where the vegetable experiment station is
located, and drives 45 minutes each way to buy pastured chickens from us.

> > What are they smoking in their pipe up their at the land grant in NC?
[Cole, Ralph] I thought NC was supposed to be the hotbed of
organoculture in the southeast?

> I was told by a professor here (UGA) in the poultry program that not
> only was there no difference between pasture and caged birds, but
> that the only explanation for people who buy organic is "some people
> with a lot of discretionary income find some (ehem) very
> *interesting* ways to spend it." There is definately a strong
> paradigm (dogma?) here at the landgrants which make it rare to hear a
> differing opinion/answer, no matter what contrary evidence may be out
> there.

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