I'm familiar with some of these groups. The
Leopold Center is currently headed by (BD farmer) Fred Kirschenmann. They
do good work. Practical Farmers of Iowa is an accurate term for their
organization. The Food Alliance is an "eco-label" that isn't necessarily
organic, but has some
Good to hear that there are some well intentioned folks
involved. Bottom line is, all good and moral additional
requirements aside, they are not organic - they still use
poisons. Niman Ranch natural meat is good, better by
far than the factory farmed crap, but they still use poisons. There
seems
I e-mailed Fred Kirschenmann yesterday and got a reply this morning which
required a reply from me. As soon as I get another answer from him,
I will put the whole correspondence on the list. What he said was
that it was just a proposal and that if I looked at the Leopold Center
website I would
Hi all, This is the e-mail exchange between Merla and Fred Kirschenmann
> At 04:47 PM 1/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Dear Dr. Kirschenmann:
> >
> >My Biodynamic list/serve is having a discussion on the sustainable
> >label and we found the W. K. Kellogg
Kellog's is secondary industry. A product label re sustainability
ought to also
cover sustainable secondary industry indicators, incl. social accountability
etc.
It's my impression that Kellog as it is referred to in these
articles is a grant providing group that has done a great deal of
Here's a great x-post related to this topic from Eliott Coleman (of
course, maybe I've been scammed!) - Allan
Status: U
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:43:55 -0500
Subject: [market-farming] Authentic food
To: Market Farming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: eliot coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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