Wonder if he feels the same way about pesticide drift in his backyard?
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Date: Apr 27 2000 16:07:40 EDT
From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
Subject: Re: On the Subject of Organic Foods and Seed Segragation
IF the organic farmers/retailers expect to sell a value-added product,
then
they, not anyone else, is responsible for all of the necessary costs of
producing and marketing the value-added product. So they are responsible
for the costs of segregation-identification. If those costs soar beyond
any reasonable consumer willingess to pay, so be it.
To impose on the rest of agriculture the liability for the organic
farmers
silly preferences and loss of value added return is ridiculous. The
organic industry is demanding the right to sue other farmers if their
harvests are "contaminated" with biotech pollen and thus destroys their
"organic" crop. This is a backdoor imposition of organic standards on
the
rest of the farm community and it is absurd.
Alex A. Avery
Director of Research and Education
Center for Global Food Issues
Hudson Institute
P.O. Box 202
Churchville, VA 24421
(540) 337-6354
fax: (540) 337-8593
email: aavery@rica.net
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