Don't wild caught animals and wild harvested plants have to come from areas
that people can document they are in compliance with organic standards? But
hey they still allow day old chicks and day old fingerlings from any old
source so why not wild fish from the ocean. Just another way to put the
diversified organic large livestock farm at another disadvantage. The more
we look at organic codes the more we realise it is just a set of rules to
govern a label. I find it ironic that organic vegetable producers can use
confinement manure for fertilizer. I also find it ironic that I can't
pasture an organic animal on ground that is under organic production but
can't be certified yet I can lock the animal up in a barn and haul it
organic feed and get it certified. That is duping the consumer and
encouraging organics into confinement. I have a hard time believing that
people buying organic meats think they are getting confinement products.
The same goes with the wild fish. What would be different in the "organic"
fish versus "regular" fish? I'm convinced if organics are to have any
integrity in the long term it has to use as natural of production practices
as possible--not just the absence of synthetic chemicals. Anything less is
just setting the whole movement up to lose most of its customers once they
find out.
Best wishes,
Greg Gunthorp
Free range pig, chicken, and rabbit farmer
-----Original Message-----
From: Aquatfs@aol.com <Aquatfs@aol.com>
To: sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu <sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: Organic Wild Caught Fish
>I just read my June 2000 issue of Seafood Business and found an article on
>the labeling of wild caught fish as organic. There is a quote from the
>president of the NFI that states: "The air is polluted, and yet, an organic
>farmer or rancher can get labeled as organic. Give me a break. All of that
>pollution in the air falls down on the plants, and the water is absorbed
back
>into the food these chickens or cows are eating. There is no difference".
>This is the rebuttal, I presume to those who say that wild caught fish
should
>not be labeled organic because there is no control over the rearing
>environment.
>
>I would be interested in soliciting opinions on the impact of pollution on
>organic crops, and whether wild caught fish should be labeled organic.
>
>Alan Ismond, P.Eng.
>Aqua-Terra Consultants
>
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