FW: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-19 Thread Jane Sherry
If you can't trust your heath food store, who can you trust? From: http://www.nypost.com/seven/11182002/news/regionalnews/62362.htm 'ORGANIC' BEEF SCAM By JEANE MacINTOSH & MATTHEW McDERMOTT Store owner Helen Burgess November 18, 2002 -- The upscale organic-food chain Healthy Pleasures has b

Re: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-20 Thread The Korrows
Jane, this happened in our little town when guys were buying tomatoes from Mexico and restickering them as organic, then shipping them off to all sorts of stores. They were eventually caught. It will be interesting to see where the paper trail leads. Speaking of paper trail, our certifiers are ho

Re: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-20 Thread Jane Sherry
horrors in our world. Blessings, Jane > From: "The Korrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:29:54 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Organic Beef Scam in New York City > > Jane, this happened in our

Re: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-20 Thread Allan Balliett
Speaking of paper trail, our certifiers are holding a two day work shop on how to keep records under the NOP rule. Chris and I are still debating wether or not we will re certify under the new rule. I wonder how many US growers on BDNOW! are considering dropping organic certification? Christy - I

Re: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-21 Thread The Korrows
Thank you for responding Allan. Christy

RE: FW: Organic Beef Scam in New York City

2002-11-20 Thread Nancy Geffken
Jane Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you can't trust your heath food store, who can you trust? Good question. Fraud is endemic - Arthur Andersen is just the poster boy for an entire fraud-based economic system. I bought some "organic" oranges last year, put them in the cold cellar - one