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Re: [GWL]: Organic Style Magazine (was: Gardening magazines)

Title: Re: [GWL]: Organic Style Magazine (was: Gardening maga
However, IMHO, the major reason that organic has been misunderstood in this country was a disrespect for the consumer's intelligence. When you were writing for Rodale, you had to take out anything that smacked of "science," use an 8th-grade vocabulary, and make certain all your constructions were simple. It was impossible to write as if you were writing to peers; you had to write down, down, down. You couldn't even explain the science in simple language. This was disastrous. It gutted the concepts, eventually eroding them until all that was left was a narrow concern about human health. Rodale did it because they wanted to popularize organic methods and they believed that this was the way to do it. Maybe they were correct.

Oh I see!  I always wondered what repulsed me about OG.  I subscribed many many years ago and the tone and information was so cult-like that I gave up my subscription as soon as it expired, though I was very involved in non-chemical agriculture (and still am).  IPM has always appealed to me greatly and largely because of its scientific approach to treating problems, starting with the least intervention and moving slowly from there.  OG was (and in some ways still seems to be) like religion and I believe in the separation of church and garden.

Give me the science behind the fanatacism and I'll consider it.  No science, no deal.

Thanks Miranda

Can we work IPM into this discussion?
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