Posted on 09/03/2015 9:24:05 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Here is how the people's elected representatives have stacked the deck.
I own a small farm, a berry patch, to be exact, and for the particular type of berry that I grow it is much more profitable to market them as organic. I grow everything organically out of choice. However, to market anything as organic the operation must be certified by the government.
So, of course I must spend hours filling out and filling out and filling out forms. Of course there are fees, filing fees, inspection fees and certification fees. Then there is the time spent with the inspector at the kitchen table talking, not long, only a few hours out of a busy day. If you add up the fees and add in a reasonable estimate of the time, I ended up spending more to become certified than I made selling my “Organic” berries.
I put the word organic in quotation marks not because they aren’t organic. I do it because there is no way the inspector could actually know whether they are or not. He didn’t test the soil. He didn’t test the plants. He didn’t test the berries. He went exclusively by what I told him, what I documented in my field logs, and in the forms I filed.
The problem is, too many people are in favor of limited government until it limits what they want government to be doing.
Return to USConstitution _and_ return to His ways.
150 years too late. We needed to put the brakes on government right after the Civil War.
So if you lost money selling them as organic, and organic is more profitable than non-organic, you were really going to lose money had you sold them as non-organic.
I'm not sure I believe this author.
But if I agree that they don' test, then the government cert is worth nothing. And without the government cert, we've no reason to believe the organic labeling on anything.
So basically, buy non-organic, save money.
I never buy “Certified Organic” fruit and vegetables because I have never figured out how they can grow inorganic fruit and vegetables.
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