Actually, Frank, in that conversation, JP also said it is because of Will Brinton that this e coli mess happened around these compost tea regs, and he didn't sound happy about it.
Frankly, I have always understood the current organics game to be about claiming market share. Not at all about producing vital quality food for people. The more the world changes, the more convinced I am that we need locally produced food by people who's face we can see and name we can know. CSA's make more sense than ever. Here in the east coast of US, almost all of the organic food (in health stores) comes from the commercial so called organic farms in CA. It has no taste for the most part, and goes bad after two days and has no vital forces. I recently heard another story about a so called organic farmer who sprayed their farmers' market greens with some kind of 'approved' gas or chemical to make them stay fresher longer and poisoned their downhill neighbors. It pays to know who you are dealing with and failing that to develop powers of discernment. If you're going to trust this government to tell you what is safe to eat, then you're a fool, excuse me! (Yeah, you live in Canada where people don't even lock their doors!) When the margarine producers wanted more market share, who came out talking about clogged arteries from fat? Who has more obese members of the population than America? Certainly, there is going to be bad compost tea along with the good stuff. Just like farmers. If people would stop looking for a magic bullet (compost tea) or 'the great man' (Steiner, the gov't, whomever) to save them, and look to themselves and their own community & work on their spiritual development along with other kinds of development, perhaps we'd get somewhere. Blessings, Jane S. > From: "Frank Teuton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:58:55 -0500 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Search for results of Elaine's testing of bd preps > > Jean Paul has previously said that he looks to Will Brinton as his > composting guru. Brinton, in addition to advising us as to the proper shape > of cow horn for prepmaking, is also on record pointing out that there is > indeed a substantial possibility that 'properly made' compost and compost > tea can have E. coli in it.
