Posted by RodInNS on October 16, 2013 at 05:49:23 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: Organic Farming posted by Longmeadow Farm on October 16, 2013 at 05:20:21:
The reason that people in mainstream agriculture are starting to fight back is because they're sick and tired of having their living threatened by lies and misinformation. For most of my life I didn't care what anyone else did or how they farmed. If they wanted to farm 'organically' that was fine by me... but now it's gotten to the point where most of 'them' are openly admonishing 'conventional' agriculture in every way they can for their personal gain. The fact that we're starting to fight back is simple reality... we're going to defend our corner. I got into a row with a guy a month ago when he was spreading crap online about the use of a coccidiastat in chicken feed. He grand theory was that this was a ploy by the big drug companies to cause cancer as one of the components in the drug was arsenate... a known carcinogen. While there may be some linkage there today between that product and cancer (or there may not as I haven't looked at the research)... the point is that 45 years ago when the product was introduced... it was about preventing dead chicken... which is what happens when you get widespread coccidia. He then proceeded to explain to me how that was only a problem in confinement operations.... which it is not. I've seen it be a problem with only a handful of animals in some very 'organic' type systems like his... So... simply put, some of us have reached the saturation point where we simply won't stand by any longer and listen to people spread misinformation, half truths and bald faced lies that effect OUR livelihoods. I also believe we have a responsibility to debunk their lies any time we witness them because John Q. Public most often doesn't know the difference... but when the truth IS presented, most are smart enough to see the reason why something is done the way it is done.
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