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Re: gleaning

I just had to mention a correspondence that occurred to me about this
discussion. For various reasons (mostly some editing I am now doing), I have
been revisiting the questions that were involved in the formation of federal
organic certification standards and the National List, now known as OMRI.

One of the defining splits that occurred within the organic farming
community  was whether standards should be science-based, i.e., determined
by effects on soil health, or consumer-based, i.e., driven by the market.
The second option won out, obviously. The general thinking was that the
consumer was unable to understand the subtleties involved in banding such
things as super phosphate or Chilean nitrate and could only understand the
boogie-man issue of synthetic vs natural.

It's an interesting correspondence...

Miranda
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