<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for USDA close to approving relatively weak organic standards for fish]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/OGfish/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:45:24 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/OGfish/1 You've Got To Be Kidding!

Organic fish?  Wait, I have to stop laughing.  Stick to wild fish, screw organic.  Farmed fish is environmentally destructive, unhealthy, doesn't taste good, and it's bad for the fish!

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Organic fish?  Wait, I have to stop laughing.  Stick to wild fish, screw organic.  Farmed fish is environmentally destructive, unhealthy, doesn't taste good, and it's bad for the fish!

]]> Comment #2 by graceg http://www.grist.org/article/OGfish/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:11:18 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/OGfish/2 Nonsense about organic standards

Please stop laughing and start thinking.  I suppose you could say the same thing about any organic product -- how can something as environmentally destructive as beef or soybeans be allowed to be organic?  Duh -- if you follow the organic rules, it can't be environmentally destructive.  

So you're saying that wild caught fish are okay for people to eat, but please don't feed them to farmed fish?  Even with all the restrictions included in the recommended standards? Where's the logic in that?  

Meanwhile, there's plenty of farmed organic fish coming from Europe, where they believe that we need to encourage fish farming that is ecologically benign--or would you prefer to keep that from happening here?

The best organic standards are neither "weak" nor "strong."  They are ecologically sensible.

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Please stop laughing and start thinking.  I suppose you could say the same thing about any organic product -- how can something as environmentally destructive as beef or soybeans be allowed to be organic?  Duh -- if you follow the organic rules, it can't be environmentally destructive.  

So you're saying that wild caught fish are okay for people to eat, but please don't feed them to farmed fish?  Even with all the restrictions included in the recommended standards? Where's the logic in that?  

Meanwhile, there's plenty of farmed organic fish coming from Europe, where they believe that we need to encourage fish farming that is ecologically benign--or would you prefer to keep that from happening here?

The best organic standards are neither "weak" nor "strong."  They are ecologically sensible.

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