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posted September 9, 2004 from our Sept 9, 2004 weekly market notes
Credibility of Organic Farming Under Attack, and a neighbour's response
Last but not least: attached you'll find an article Wallie Seto forwarded from the LA Times. Apparently organic farming is about to come under expert attack, on the grounds that claims made for the superiority of organic produce can be scientifically disproved. There is no mention in the article about the joys of eating food grown nearby by farmers you can get to know, on local soils that are more likely bolstered by legumes or manure than by numbered fertilizers synthesized in a lab. Who can quantify the pleasure of linking the foods on the plate with the people who grew them/ raised them and picked them, and with the people who did the preparations to ready them for the market? Not me. ("Beyond rubies" is as precise as I can get.)