Allan, Without putting to fine a point on it. Personally, I would prefer something that came out of the back end of a cow, mixed with my food than any thing from Monsanto.
Gil Allan Balliett wrote: > If you're monitoring SANET or Elaine Inghams compost tea discussion > group, you already know that the USDA organic rules group has been > advised to restrict the use of compost teas on food crops. This > applies particularly to teas that use added sugars (mollasses, for > example). Already, however, it appears that the rule may be > generalized to 'ban' all cow manure based teas. The chances of this > impacting BD 500 and BC is very high. Of course, this only applies to > people who are interested in receiving USDA organic certification, > but the possibility of truly negative publicity is very high. I don't > have all the details on these events, and what I've said above may be > misleading. > > What I have to say most importantly is that we need to gather all the > information we can on this move by the USDA organic group and discuss > it among ourselves so we are prepared to speak out on it and more > importantly, to talk intelligently to our customers about the > difference between biodynamically grown foods and USDA organics. > > -Allan
