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Connnecting your garden to the 'cosmic influence' : Comments

By Ben-Peter Terpstra, published 21/12/2006

The ABC's flagship magazine, 'Organic Gardener' comes in for some close scrutiny.

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Give the poor blighters a break Ben. It is Christmas, and if you got rid of all the people employed in the organic nonsense industry you would create massive unemployment. The worst thay they can do is suffer from E.coli producing gastroenteritis from not sterilising the lovely fresh green vegetables grown from porly composted chook poo.
Posted by VK3AUU, Friday, 22 December 2006 5:39:45 PM
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VK3AUU, can you provide a link for a single certified organic product causing food poisoning due to e.coli levels? In fact it is CONVENTIONAL food suppliers & fasy food vendors who cause the vast majority of such cases of food poisoning, eg. very recently in the US with lettuce http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_IA_Taco_Johns_Lawsuit.html

Certified Organics might be associated in some media with flakey ideas, and is in the process of being prostituted by supermarkets, but its still some guarantee that your food costs less (in real, not economic, terms) and sure tastes a damn sight better. If certification took energy (including food miles) and material flows into account then supermarkets would never make the grade.
Posted by Liam, Friday, 22 December 2006 11:45:20 PM
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Please, why don't you have a go at something a bit more meaningful Ben? Trashing David Suziki for flying? Trashing the ABC for having the Organic Gardener and implying cash for comment? Yes, I can see it now - tomorrow's headlines - ABC's magazine is biased because green groups have paid for advertising for environmentally friendly products!! Run, hide ... what is our ABC coming too?

Oh My God.

You also accuse the magazine as being "unscientific" - every other magazine I see at my supermarket counter is far more "unscientific". Women's magazines abound with sensationalist claims about age-reversing products, slimming diets and the rest. Even the Australian Magazine has a horoscope section!

Find something more worthwhile critiquing - perhaps the policies of our Government. Better yet, the paucity of Australian content on Australian TV.
Posted by Blackstone, Saturday, 23 December 2006 12:10:20 AM
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When I awoke this morning I did not realise such a crisis lurked, the horror of it all, the horror of organic gardening. That awful Monster the ABC.

Ben-Peter Terpstra should not bash the ABC and attempts to reduce polloution because throughout his article he does not say why. The ABC is bad because reducing pollution is bad , why Ben? Why?

The article is not convincing enough to motivate me to grab my pitchfork and march to the ABC and demand they stop producing such 'rubbish' and demand it replaced with other rubbish more in line with the rubbish that the rest of the media produce.
Posted by West, Wednesday, 27 December 2006 10:08:39 AM
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