economics of organic farming

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 12 09:22:43 PDT 1999


CounterPunch wrote:


>Doug writes--
> >Not much on labor (except the benefits of nonexposure to
> >toxic chemicals),
>
>Hey, that's a pretty big issue to the fieldworkers I talk to! Perhaps, you
>have to see the way methyl bromide is applied in the vineyards and
>strawberry and tomato fields of California and Oregon to really understand
>this.--jsc

Don't get me wrong, I think that's very important. But I wanted to hear about how many workers, kind of work, pay, chains of command, etc.

Doug



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