Re: more comments on organic, archive 7062

[Rick Roush <rick.roush@adelaide.edu.au>]

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>One of the country's worst produce-related outbreaks of food
>poisoning was in New England in 1996, when 61 people were made sick -
>21 of them hospitalized - with a particularly lethal strain of E.
>coli. The problem was tracked to a California producer who grew salad
>greens in fields fed by water from an adjacent beef cattle farm.

Christos Vasilikiotis wrote:
It is quite amazing that organic farming is blamed for the problems
caused by industrial agriculture!

Rick asks: Even accepting that this was an example, what made this
particular beef cattle farm "industrial"? What kind of stocking rates are
we talking about? Was my grandfather's 1950's hog pen also industrial?  How
do efficiently collect manure from non-industrial circumstances, whatever
they are?