why should organic food need to be shipped? why not bike transport? the whole idea behind organic is the process-wide health benefits. technically speaking organic food should not be shipped at all. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Petrillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Air-freighted food may lose organic label
> Keith Addison wrote: >> http://environment.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,1999460,00.html >> | Food | Guardian Unlimited Environment >> Air-freighted food may lose organic label >> >> Mark Oliver and agencies >> Friday January 26, 2007 >> Guardian Unlimited > [snip] > > Oh great! MORE politics involved in the Organic label. > > This is a bad idea. While I agree that the lower the transportation > miles on the food the better, basing the organic label on that factor is > taking the politics of it to a ridiculous degree. Whether or not the > food is organic should be based on HOW IT IS GROWN, not how it is shipped! > > Now, as a disclaimer, I will say I am not a disinterested party in this, > because I work for an airline that gets a large bit of its revenue from > shipping freight, including organic food. But even if I take a step > back from my position as an airline employee I still think basing the > organic label on the shipping method is more politics than science. > > > AP > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.16/660 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 > 5:04 PM > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.16/660 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 5:04 PM _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
