| Replaced_Texan |
11-30-2005 05:38 PM |
Soylent Green is people!
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Cynic. Next you'll be telling us that big agribusiness is lobbying to weaken the standards for labelling food as "organic."
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My brother has been on a kick to make the family homestead more profitable, and (among other things) he's looked into turning us into an all-organic operation. It's a fucking pain in the ass to be certified as organic, especially in parts of the world where you have to fertilize your fields if anything is going to grow there and if you're downstream from other ranches that use pesticides and/or fertilizers.
And from all the people (buyers and sellers) we've talked to at the farmers markets, so long as you explain that your cattle are generally grass fed and haven't ever seen the inside of a feed lot, most people who care about such things are pretty ok with the lack of "organic" label on the beef/pork/chicken/whatever.
I have a feeling that we'll be joining the heritage livestock movement in the next couple of months. The jury is still out on whether or not there will be enough buy-in on his "hogs in the woods" idea (inspired by a long talk with these guys and the discovery that from piglet to 400 pound hog only takes a few months). Farmers market farmers, btw, are a great source of information.
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