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Moratorium on Hydroponic Organic Certification

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Carmen Murga
10 years ago

Organic means better health.

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Lina Mercado
10 years ago

It's not an organic method!!!

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Tom Hayes
10 years ago

You can't have organic without the soil.

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Barry De Jasu
10 years ago

Organic should really mean something special and true.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Plants grown organically in rich soul obtain the most and best nutirients. Please keep the dirt and all it's natural components (including worms, bugs and bacteria) in organic farming.

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Laura Plessner
10 years ago

STOP lying and calling something non-organic "organic". STOP organic certification of all NEW hydroponic acreage..

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Jenn Gibbons
10 years ago

Microbial life in soil is not damaging, but nourishing. Our internal terrain is comparable to the earth's. All chronic disease has a component of imbalanced gut microbiota due to insufficient beneficial gut species or insufficient quantities, overgrowth of commensal species not kept in check by good species, and the overgrowth of dysbiotic species that flourished due to an imbalanced terrain. Food grown with diverse soil enables improved microbiota. Stop fumigating it.

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Irene Pennypacker
10 years ago

I prefer vegetables grown in organic soil.

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Sharon Piper-Martin
10 years ago

Once again the NOP is blatantly disregarding the recommendations of the NOSB in their approval of hydrophonic systems being certified organic - and they did so without any standards as to how the hydroponic systems should operate or what "water amendments" they would consider to be organic. This is not acceptable. Keep the soil in organic certification!!

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Cynthia Elia RN
10 years ago

Organic standards need to be upheld as I am counting on that label. I am willing to pay more for organics, but need to be sure that is what I am getting for my money. Also, animal welfare should be higher in organic standards

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Shirl Handly
10 years ago

We need soil microorganisms in our diet

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Bernadine Young
10 years ago

I would have loved more than you can imagine if hydorponic production could be one organically, but it is not and what is produced requires the extensive use of fungicides among other products that I do not want and can't tolerate health-wise in my food.

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C Chen
10 years ago

Please keep soil in the organic standards. All we are asking is that the USDA act in support of the recommendation presented by the National Organic Standards Board in 2010. Until they finalize good greenhouse standards, we demand that the USDA stop certifying any new acreage of hydroponic production as organic. Grown in the ground is in keeping with the beliefs of the organic community, and the standards of the rest of the world.

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m harvey
10 years ago

don't water down the standards

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Anonymous
10 years ago

There is no replacing the soil with a water soluble chemical solution even if it includes fish excrement!

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Marsha Wilson
10 years ago

"Organic" should be SOIL GROWN, the way God intended it!!

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Frances Pearre
10 years ago

Announcing NESARA now will rapidly resolve this for the people.

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Gary Miller
10 years ago

Food in soiless conditions are not the same as grown in soil. Please give them a different label Thank you

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Pien van der Kleij
10 years ago

Back to earth is very important.

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Jacek Haciak
10 years ago Featured

Organic standards have long held that organic crops must come from a soil-based origin. Please adhere to these important standards, and please reverse your organic certification allowance for hydroponic acreage. Thank you.