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Re: [compost_tea] Re: Defining what is compost tea - NOP dangers?



Atta Boy Kirk.  Organic ain't gonna win laying quietly down while manure heads ( good clean phrase) shape up another loser for the family farm.  It seems to me that organics should help re-establish the family farm as an economic reality.  How wonderful that would be.  But the big contibutors will be those giving back a few cents of the gov. subsidys.  Earth needs both little and big in organics.  But TRUE organics.   Bob   

Kirk Leonard <kirk@oregonatural.com> wrote:
Gail -- Thanks for your thoughts.  USNOP has turned off a lot of good
organic practitioners in just the way you suggest.  It is largely designed
to give big conventional producers a boost into organics.  (I'll go back to
an early example:  What is organic about using ethylene gas to "degreen"
fruit?  See National List #41, I think)  No GE stuff, no sewage sludge, and
no irradiation are good things, and there are many other good elements.  In
my little corner of the world, I am frightened by their manure agenda, and
compost tea, and vermicompost, which officially doesn't exist under NOP
today.  How is that for a joke?

So I hear you, dearly, but we differ.  I've heard others suggest a new
non-organic organic organization, but I want USNOP to get it right, dammit!
Rather than go around them, I prefer the not ion of going at them.  If we
don't succeed, then I guess democracy might not work in America anymore.  I
am mad as hell about what USNOP manure-heads are doing and I'm not going to
take it anymore!

Kirk








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