Commentary and analysis on hydroponic crop politics and production
What does hydroponic look like? It’s overseas, it uses miles of plastic, it abuses land and water, preys on people and destroys local community economies. Take a look:
The Alliance for Sustainable Hydroponics and the Clean Hydroponic Produce Standard ensures hydroponic operations could claim proper credit for using only organic inputs and fully reporting energy use – without “borrowing” the USDA organic seal.The CHiPS standard and other background information can be found at https://sustainablehydroponics.org/ SustainableHydroponics.org.
Coalition For Sustainable Profits declares war on National Organic Program at US Senate
Via: Keep the Soil in Organic Theo Crisantes says it is time to limit the power of the NOSB. Another blow against Real Organic came last week with the Senate testimony of the misnamed Coalition For Sustainable Organics, which I will henceforth refer to as the Coalition for Sustainable Profits. Only through the extraordinary…
How to let a DC lobbyist ruin the organic brand in one short afternoon.
Created on 2017-07-16 19:37 Published on 2017-07-16 19:49 Recent testimony to a congressional committee showed the danger of letting political lobbyists represent your brand within a specialized industry community. In this case, they got it wrong, on the record, and marginalized their clients in the process. Written testimony posted verbatim; commentary is indented with underlined…
A Hypocritical Hydroponic Hypocracy
“Hydroponics has fooled consumers for so long,” they stated, “it would be unfair to call our bluff now.”
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