Don't hydrophonics add synthetic nutrients to the water?
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Anonymous
8 years ago
thank you
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Katherine Yvinskas
8 years ago
We the people demand that our soil stays organic. No funny tricks with the growing of food.
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Mary Wunderlich
8 years ago
No Hydroponics Certified As Organic!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Labeling is important. So is supporting local farmers.
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Steven Bond
8 years ago
thank you for arranging this important endeavor!
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Mary Marston
8 years ago
Healthy soil for healthy food for healthy people now!
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James Eisenstein
8 years ago
Rapid progress in the science of soil biology and the benefits of soil organisms in improving nutrition tells us that hydroponics fail to provide these benefits.
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Karlos Vasak
8 years ago
The Human caused Sixth Mass Extinction Event should make it clear that we are not adept at engineering our way to a healthy planet. I will not here debate whether or not hydroponics can actually provide healthy nutrient-rich food, but I will say that because it is humans toying around with chemistry and how to grow food, it does not deserve to be added to the official category of "organic". Adding hydroponics and other novel techniques for growing produce would be a dilution of the term organic.
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Raymond Fontanes
8 years ago
Protect the microbiology of the soil. It's how we get our nutrition.
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Alethia Kaie Potter
8 years ago
Keep organic in the ground
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Kate Watters
8 years ago
Reverence for the soil food web should be part of the organic standards. Soil grows nutritious, plants and healthy soil. If NOFA certifies hydroponic agriculture it will be WATERING down organic standards and doing a huge disservice to eaters everywhere while big companies make more money and farmers who grow naturally will be further disadvantaged.
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Katherine Creswell
8 years ago
Certified organic food should not be produced hydroponically. Hydroponic produce should be labelled as such and not sold as certified organic. Good food comes from healthy SOIL!
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Jeremy Stokes
8 years ago
Stop allowing big business control us. No soil, not organic!
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Elena Kyuchukova
8 years ago
The soil micro-biome is the key to nutritious and delicious produce. It is a crucial part of the human and environmental health!
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Teresa Durbin
8 years ago
Organic agriculture is based on growing
naturally in soil. Growing hydroponically is not natural and should not be included in the organic movement
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Paul Meyer
8 years ago
More information is better than less. The USDA should require farmers to inform their customers exactly how their food was grown.
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Marylyn Nolan
8 years ago
Fertile soil is our goal!
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Michael Annejohn
8 years ago
Organic certification is not perfect, but it is currently the best system we have to convey to consumers that food is produced sustainably. If hydroponics are certified organic, the certification will lose all meaning and we will have NO system for conveying this.
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susan laurino
8 years ago
No need to keep messing with the definition of organic. Please understand that organic means grown in naturally fertile *soil*!
Don't hydrophonics add synthetic nutrients to the water?
thank you
We the people demand that our soil stays organic. No funny tricks with the growing of food.
No Hydroponics Certified As Organic!
Labeling is important. So is supporting local farmers.
thank you for arranging this important endeavor!
Healthy soil for healthy food for healthy people now!
Rapid progress in the science of soil biology and the benefits of soil organisms in improving nutrition tells us that hydroponics fail to provide these benefits.
The Human caused Sixth Mass Extinction Event should make it clear that we are not adept at engineering our way to a healthy planet. I will not here debate whether or not hydroponics can actually provide healthy nutrient-rich food, but I will say that because it is humans toying around with chemistry and how to grow food, it does not deserve to be added to the official category of "organic". Adding hydroponics and other novel techniques for growing produce would be a dilution of the term organic.
Protect the microbiology of the soil. It's how we get our nutrition.
Keep organic in the ground
Reverence for the soil food web should be part of the organic standards. Soil grows nutritious, plants and healthy soil. If NOFA certifies hydroponic agriculture it will be WATERING down organic standards and doing a huge disservice to eaters everywhere while big companies make more money and farmers who grow naturally will be further disadvantaged.
Certified organic food should not be produced hydroponically. Hydroponic produce should be labelled as such and not sold as certified organic. Good food comes from healthy SOIL!
Stop allowing big business control us. No soil, not organic!
The soil micro-biome is the key to nutritious and delicious produce. It is a crucial part of the human and environmental health!
Organic agriculture is based on growing naturally in soil. Growing hydroponically is not natural and should not be included in the organic movement
More information is better than less. The USDA should require farmers to inform their customers exactly how their food was grown.
Fertile soil is our goal!
Organic certification is not perfect, but it is currently the best system we have to convey to consumers that food is produced sustainably. If hydroponics are certified organic, the certification will lose all meaning and we will have NO system for conveying this.
No need to keep messing with the definition of organic. Please understand that organic means grown in naturally fertile *soil*!