Re: Startling statistic

**Margaret Lauterbach m*@earthlink.net**

At 11:49 AM 10/17/2003 -0700, you wrote:

Last week I spent some time at a distributor's sales show with an old friend
who is the national sales manager for one of the larger pesticide
manufacturers. He was showing me some of the new products his company was
announcing for next year. As an aside he mentioned that only 2% of all the
pesticide sales in the country to consumers are organic products.  I was
stunned.  I don't know what I thought, but it sure wasn't only 2%.  Two
percent is such a small portion of the total market as to be irrelevent, an
idea I find very disappointing having been a proponent of organic gardening
for over 20 years.  I have to conclude that there is no significant organic
movement among gardeners in this country, and I don't like that idea.  Does
anyone agree?

Jeff Ball