To show how correct Sal is on gmo's I sent a report on a TV programme here
yesterdayevening. Concerning fees and organic certification; as I see it as
a consumer, at the end of the day it to a large extend comes down to trust,
in spite of certification. I know a little bit how the certification thing
works and it is open for fraud, like any control system, I guess. So, when I
go to the farmers market here (Fortunately we have one here) I look for the
farmers like Sal and others and fortunately there still are some real good
and honest organic farmers, indeed an honesty I do not find in industry a
lot, where I mostly get an overload of PR.
I pay more for organic foods and I like to pay the farmer, not the
certifier, because I have to mainly rely on the farmer, not on the
certifier. I pay more because I want not all kind of chemicals in and on my
food, and what imo is good agricultural practice foods. Certification has a
value. I guess there are pros and cons to certifying, organic foods in
supermarkets etc. The rules Sal sent around look proposterous. It seems
certification fees could be related to income at the least, and not so
excessive. Farmers are being sucked. Thanks Sal.
Wytze
> Dutch TV yesterday had another item on GE and a good one. Paneldebate
> and "streetresearch". The streetresearch was one of the most exciting
> parts. Living in Holland, reading the press, seeing the huge political
> support for GE and all the usual GE PR, one tends to think that by now
> only a small minority of the population still has reservations and
> nobody else cares. Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs recently estimated
> the number of "sceptics" at 30%. The interviewer for the TV show went
> into a housewivefair with a plate with two kind of tomatoes. A small,
> light-red non-ge tomato and a bigger, redder and very good looking GE
> tomato (not reallly GE ones, but that's how he presented it) He offered
> these tomatoes to the ordinary public. A few people did not care and
> took the GE tomato, but the VAST majority rejected the GE tomato, even
> though it looked better than the small one. In the end all the non-GE
> tomatoes were gone, and almost all GE tomatoes still were on his plate.
> Also, people can send in written reactions about the programme and again
> the vast majority is on our side. Finally also space for a scientist who
> made clear that safety is but one aspect of all the possible reasons to
> reject GE foods and a molecular biologist who, in spite of working with
> transgenic plants, declared not to eat them until he has a lot more
> questions answered. This is good news and significant, because it
> really was the "normal public" that was questioned, and especially given
> the attitude from our big newspapers, which are quite different from
> their UK colleagues. Somehow, with all the limited access we have to
> press, our scepticism is really shared by the public. I am pleasantly
> surprised.
> IKON TV-programme: Babylon (tuesday 25-4-2000)
> wytze
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