Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#39
|
|||
|
|||
BST MILK and Ordinary MILK Indistinquishable? Not Really.
Cheating can be unwitting. For instance, farmer A farms organically (so he thinks, along with the trade regulator) farmer B applies all the replacement nutrients to his land (synthetic nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus salts, and any trace element salts required) and sells organic matter to farmer A who fertilises his land with this OM. Now he doesn't think that he is indirectly using artificial ferts to his land, but what do you think? The cheating to which I refer involves the deliberate circumvention of the intent of "organic" guidelines by growers. Sadly most of these guidelines are very thinly veiled and of little use except to mislead the consumer. When reading the "organic" label he would like to believe he can be assurance the product is of more wholesome quality and free of pesticides as is insinuated by the vagueness of the guidelines. Not true on today's store shelves. An instance we watched in this area was the labeling of packaged lettuce from the Salinas California area that was one day normal lettuce and the next day had the big bold "organic" label on it. Strange that a crop could change it's content overnight. Not so strange is the fact that it did not fly and is no longer stocked as organic. I believe the consumers are starting to become even more aware of what goes on before food products hit the shelves. James Curts |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Cleaning vinyl siding - not ordinary "stain" | Lawns | |||
Really, really O/T - you're back | Ponds | |||
Really really sandy soil | United Kingdom | |||
Ground Ivy REALLY, REALLY bad this year... | Gardening | |||
Glue really really really works? | Ponds |