Headlines from the Eco-Farming Rag
Oct. 28th, 2006 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goddessfarmerI'm browsing through my on-paper November issue of Acresusa (www.acresusa.com) and figured I'd share some of the news that is noteworthy to the general population.
Probably the most interesting is the backstory on the Spinach Debacle - The culprit was CONVENTIONAL spinach being processed in a facility that also processes Organic spinach. As it turn out, the Organic spinach was not affected at ALL. In the same vien and location, some milk had been reported to be infected with E. Coli, and fingers were pointed to an Organic producer. That producer, who rigoursly tests his milk, also did a test where he added E. Coli to a sample and reported that it "refused to grow".
On the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) front, "The USDA's plan if Foot-and-Mouth diesease occurs in the United States is to draw 10-kilometer kill zones around infected animals and kill every susceptible animal within those zones." Elsewhere in this story "the USDA continues to propagate the myth that proper nutrition and low-stress livestock management make no difference to the incidence of disease."
Something is terribly, terribly wrong in this country....
Probably the most interesting is the backstory on the Spinach Debacle - The culprit was CONVENTIONAL spinach being processed in a facility that also processes Organic spinach. As it turn out, the Organic spinach was not affected at ALL. In the same vien and location, some milk had been reported to be infected with E. Coli, and fingers were pointed to an Organic producer. That producer, who rigoursly tests his milk, also did a test where he added E. Coli to a sample and reported that it "refused to grow".
On the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) front, "The USDA's plan if Foot-and-Mouth diesease occurs in the United States is to draw 10-kilometer kill zones around infected animals and kill every susceptible animal within those zones." Elsewhere in this story "the USDA continues to propagate the myth that proper nutrition and low-stress livestock management make no difference to the incidence of disease."
Something is terribly, terribly wrong in this country....
