Re: Commercial Compost

Sorry Billy 345  We really got off topic,

Industrial farming has no choice but use chemicals.  When one old farmer (average age in Canada is 64) has to look after 1000 acres - I'm probably exaggerating, but not much)  he can not afford to do it any other way.  If all you city folk pitched in your coffee money for a week you could probably buy a farm - with a farmer, and you could go there on the weekend and manage him.

The industry will make up all kinds of rules to discourage pressure to reduce their already meager income.

There is a difference between worker and industry.  McCannes supplies seed potatoes to the serfs that work the fields and buys the finished product back at their price.  If it's a bad year for growing potatoes and crops fail our Agricultural Stabilization Act kicks in and guarantees the farmer the average price of seed over the past 5 years so he can repay McCannes.  Of course if the farmer produces anything that he can make a good $ on, the ASA kicks in again and the Government imports product to keep the price down for the consumer. I'm sure the same thing goes on in the US.

God only knows what they put on their crops in Mexico.  It used to be trucked out as night soil from the cities.  That's the reason you are told to wash all your fruits and vegetables.   There is a greater likelihood of getting samonella poisioning from eggs or chicken.  E coli is something in every stomach and is only a problem when conditions allow it to mutiply beyond a certain level.   It's what shuts down swimming beaches in the summer  -  and that didn't come from compost.