[org.whodat]

It is a great market niche to exploit if you're into agriculture though. Premium prices for often substandard products - but the packaging is extremely important. High labor costs offset much of the profit in many crops, but there are plenty of opportunities to find the right ones for a small operation.

The interesting part of this whole thing is that it is all so much hog wash. How do you know that they are really so called organic, because the farmer told you, would you like to buy some bridge stock??? Not you workingclass, but people that believe this bull.

[tiki]

Actually, the Department of Agriculture has to cetify you and the land has to be left out for 3 yrs or so and in some states tested for residue. So there are controls.

OTH, the reason the world continues to grow and thrive is non-organic agriculture. One of the reasons we're living longer is the abundance and safety of food, which could never be accomplished without conventional farming. Another reason to eschew organic is the natural fungi and diseases which killed so many people in the past. A while back when organic was just getting popular, the developed a potato that naturally repeled bugs, the only problem was the potato itself was then poisonous. Oraganic is just a bunch of hooie made up by the hippies with no research.

[WorkingClassFilth]

How do you know that they are really so called organic, because the farmer told you, would you like to buy some bridge stock???

Well, the very name Organic, ehrn used as a product descriptor, is now Federal property. To comply with those standards, the growers have to jump through a series of hoops and be certified. In the end, though, many crops and products are still subject random contamination and, like honey, no real protection against supposed chemical detriment.

I can understand the desire of people to know where their food comes from and to have some control over what they eat. Unfortunately, for many, it becomes a fear based belief system and taken to its extreme, more like bad religion.