[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: Senseless use of word: sustainable, by David Leonard



The use of the word: SUSTAINABLE, is senseless if to be added to the term:
organic.  
Organic method is a well understood term. Everybody knows what it means.
It requires optimum conditions for soil organisms essential for fertility.
 If the soil is adequate, every good result is guaranteed, so that the
whole operation is successful, and it is inevitable that the success is
sustained.

Using such a tern as sustainable is foolish to start with, as everyone
wants his/her method to be sustained, no matter how bad it my be.

The destructive chemical companies want their products, and the use of
them to be sustained everywhere.  Yet their aims are opposite to that of
the organic growers, who want only non-destructive methods to be
sustained.

Sustainable, as a term, has no specific attachment to the term organic.

The only reason sustainable is used, is that the old diehard tough
opposers came to hate the term organic, and they were determined to find a
way around the word organic. I admire Rodale Press is that they have stuck
to the term organic, even after Robert Rodale tried to change its
reference to "regenerative"., and others keep thinking up some term or
other.

The opporbrium that the chemical companies and their puppets of academia
have given to the word organic, is a tribute to their own evil purposes.

Of course, it clearly was a pity that J I Rodale used that word, because
it already had a meaning in chemistry--organic chemistry means study of
carbon compounds.
   But since he gave a new meaning to the word, but relating it to a
method that promoted optimum conditions for soil organisms, it came to be
known as referring to the method that builds soil and promotes healthy
growth  thereby.

Everybody knows what organic farming, organic gardening means, and there
is no point in trying to pretend that it encompasses only a small part of
what is needed in agriculture.

That is why the only truly international organization of organic method
calls itself
       International Federation of ORGANIC Agriculture Movements.

At least, everyone knows for sure that when they see the titles of my
books:

Organic Method Primer, 1973

Organic Method Primer UPDATE,. 1993

Organic Method Primer--the BASICS. 1995

THAT THEY REFER TO ORGANIC METHOD, the term originated by Howard and
Rodale.

B. Rateaver



Follow-Ups: References: