That was my rebuttal and I sent it to them smarty pants.

jack

on 3/22/03 4:43 PM, Philip Scott at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Well then Jack, write a rebuttal.
> On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Jack Eastman wrote:
>
>> How devious to use a literal interpretation of the word organic to
>> undermine
>> legitimate alternative systems of  farming which do not use harmful
>> chemicals that damage soil, pollute our water and lace our food with
>> toxins.
>>
>> Jack Eastman
>>
>>
>> Des Moines Register, March 21, 03, Letter-to-the-Editor:
>>
>> Organic Quackery:
>>
>> Consumers, don't be fooled. the issue over feed standards for so-called
>> "organic" livestock is one of marketing and profit, not of food
>> quality.
>>
>> The movement has succeeded in co-opting the term "organic" by defining
>> it in
>> a very narrow, inaccurate way. "Organic" simply means pertaining to or
>> derived from life. This includes chemicals such as benzene, all manner
>> of
>> petroleum products and food products of both conventional and
>> biotechnological processes.
>>
>> In short, all food is organic. To be inorganic, a substance must be
>> based on
>> or consists of non-biological material, such as silicon.
>>
>> Using the deception, the organic movement has created a very profitable
>> market niche. This niche would disappear were it not for the more
>> efficient,
>> economical, historically safe and increasingly sustainable modern
>> food-production methods the movement rails against in its propaganda.
>>
>> Let me take my turn in redefining so-called "organic" food. It should
>> be
>> labeled "pricey, over-marketed foodstuffs produced by inefficient,
>> labor-intensive means and marketed to the affluent and gullible."
>>
>> Jeff Clothier
>> Altoona
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