Philip,

I think Jack was making us aware of a complete slap in the face to anyone
who has the slightest idea of what organic food and organic growing methods
mean.

Get with it, bud!

Mike Shaw


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Eastman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: "Organic Quackery" Des Moines Register, March 21, 03,
Letter-to-the-Editor:


> 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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