Dear Paddy,
I was very pleased and impressed by your post and I hope that 1- you
are not to late and 2- that a majority of the organic community hear and
understand you. I have been making similar noise for ten years now to
no avail and frankly I feel that it is to late (I am also very tired of the
foolishness that has been going on for the past decade). I think that you
did so well in describing how organic should be sold that I will not go into
any of my usual tirades...
Crystal chromatography or sensitive crystallization, I believe does
indicate something the question at this juncture, as you indicate, is what.
Yes, though we BD folk have been looking at it for forty or fifty years it
still needs many more replications and a number of other investigators to
work on it before it should be used in any serious way. With the
diversity of soils and competency of practice among conventional,
organic and BD growers where do you establish a base line for the
comparison? What would happen for instance if you used any quality
testing protocol to compare a really competent conventional grower
working with a superior soil and a real dog of an organic grower on
modest or poor soils or vice versa for that matter. While I support the
Hugh Lovel approach of "here taste this" I wonder if the majority of
consumers today are equipped to deal with the subtilties required.
As you pointed out very well it is one thing to believe that something is
healthier or safer. It is quite another thing to be able to prove it well
enough to make a claim in your market place that is either practical or
legal.
Best,
Ted
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