From INF3@musicb.mcgill.caTue Feb  6 23:05:12 1996
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 20:58:34 EST
From: "John Henning, McGill U (Agr.Econ./Ecol.Agr.Pjts)"
     <INF3@musicb.mcgill.ca>
To: MSRBPDR@fs1.ec.man.ac.uk
Cc: SANET-MG@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: Organic-Sustainable

      Dan ... in response to your question about sustainable and organic
      agriculture.

      I think I have come to the point where I no longer believe a meaningful
      comparison could be made. Sustainable agriculture has been defined in
      so many ways, by some many esteemed scientists and groups representing
      scientists, that it has become virtually meaningless.

      Just think about trying to find an agricultural scientist that is doing
      research on "unsustainable" agriculture, and you get the picture.

      You might contact Nic Lampkin at U. of Wales, (Aberystwyth) as a
      excellent local source on organic agr. By the way, at least you can
      find reasonably coherent sets of national and international standards
      that define what types of farming practices can be certified as
      "organic".
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