Cole, Ralph wrote:
> 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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