Reply #5: you're probably right there, unfortunately. but organic is only part of

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the puzzle, as i'm sure you're aware. it doesn't do much good to eat organic letttuce in NE Maine if it had to be trucked in from southern California. eating local is just as big a part of sustainability as organic/bio intensive growing processes. an we really need to change the way we lookat and perceive our food producers. when they're our neighbors and we know them maybe they'll we won't begrudge paying them what their labor is actually worth and showing them them the proper respect for their knowledge and ability to coax food from from the ground and deal with the vagaries of weather. i know it's beyond me on any type of scale.