Ben in the Basin - 7/23/2013 21:44
rank - 7/23/2013 18:
. I think the older you are the more respect you may have for organics......it's just the old fashioned way of doing things is all.
What a complete and total crock, and you probably used my age to solidify your completely ridicous belief.
I suppose sending hundreds of minimum wage Mexicans to the field to weed in the hot sun is just how things were done in the good ol' days.
Similar to dlbtfarmer's neighbor, an organic farm here asked some of their neighbors to maintain a 150' buffer strip on the neighbor's side of the fence... Went as far as to insinuate that the neighbors shouldnt grow anything at all in the strip so weeds could be controlled. Does that sound old-fashioned to you?
Same organic farm went on a witch hunt one time looking for $250,000 in damages because some batch of their crop got rejected due to supposed lorsban residue. They were asking about fields miles downwind that had lorsban applied in accordance with the label two years before.
They've made it known in the past that they have lawyers and aren't afraid to use them. Guilty until proven innocent in a lawsuit. Does that sound like the old neighborly respect that you seem to think older people have some monopoly over?
Give me a break. At the very least don't use my age to verify your unfounded theory.
I have plenty of respect for the old fashioned way of doing things. The version of modern organics I've seen is not it.
Forbes article on the "Organic Religion".
