To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (33783 ) 1/3/2004 8:22:53 PM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) | Respond to I was a small time farmers' market vendor, CCOF member for about 12 years. Even then, we never bothered to buy organic, and we did not come anywhere close to being self-sufficient. The only thing close to organic, on a year round basis, were eggs, but, even then, we weren't certified organic for eggs; although chickens prefer organic to inorganic (they don't prosper on sand and rusty nails), they don't seem to care whether the cracked corn was grown commercially or organically; they will even eat dog shit, so what do they care if a farmer bought Ortho or Monsanto to raise corn. Even their babies didn't seem to mind. Free range vs factories sure shows up in the eggs, but they don't mind commercial feed, and plants don't mind getting fed with manure from chickens who ate commercial feed part of the time.
