A dose of Certification Reality

Sustainable Agriculture (SAREACE@gaes.griffin.peachnet.edu)
Tue, 19 Nov 96 09:37:14 EST

On 17 Nov 1996 05:40:50 GMT you said:
NO ONE FORCES ANYONE TO CERTIFY!!!!!A FAMER CHOOSES TO CERTIFY IF THEY PLAN TO
MARKET THEIR CROPS AS ORGANIC IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY INCREASED PRICE!!!CERTIFICATI
ON WAS IMPLEMENTED AT THE BEHEST OF THE ORGANIC INDUSTRY/FARMER BECAUSE THEY WA
NTED TO MAINTAIN PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CERTIFY IF YOU
DO NOT WANT TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Paula B. Ford

>Absolutely right, Margaret Merrill.
>I tried to alert the organic farmers here, when they foolishly invited a
>county official to their meetings, and the farmers just thought I was
>being rude and offensive. Well, they found out too late. It hit them like
>a ton of bricks that they would have to, almost like criminals, register
>themselves and their crops as organic, as tho that were something so out
>of line that it had to be recorded in government offices.
>
>Not only that, but they had to pay a proportion of their income on organic
>crops, too, and this goes on EACH YEAR !!!!
>
>When did any poison-pushing farmer have to be registered with the county,
>and pay a registration fee for being a poison-adding grower? and pay a
>fee--% of his take, for being so heinous a thing as a food poisoner?????
>
>All of it is wicked, and the day of reckoning draws closer. Armageddon
>finally just around the corner.
>
>B. Rateaver

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