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  Certifying land as organic

  Pastureland & cropland are deemed organic if they have been free of pesticide and synthetic fertilizers for a period or no less than three years.  Strangely, however, manure from animals that are not necessarily raised organically can be used on those fields.  So what?  How about porcines (one gene removed from humans, or something like that) that are fed hormones & antibiotics, whose waste is then used on the same fields?  Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it?  That's what I thought when I was told this information while touring the U. of NH's Organic Dairy farm in Lee, NH, the other day (whose milk, mind you, is sold to the Organic Valley Farms co-op from which Stonyfield buys their milk!).  The Animal Science Coordinator on site at the farm, who oversees a pig research center on site, was my source of info.  He said that he knows of no studies in which it has been proven that hormones & antibiotics pass through a pig's system to its waste.  Sound like a Planet mars joke?  When I know more, you'll all know more!

  By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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