Bio Dynamic farmers and gardeners have been using cow horn manure as a spray for over seventy years. How many have been adversly affected apart from getting a sore back from carrying a bucket in one hand and flicking horn manure out with the other. I've had the wind blow it back in my face numerous times over the last 40 years and I keep in pretty good health. best wishes, Peter. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gil Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Heads up: USDA Organic Rules to Impact BD Practices
> 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 > >
