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So, that was a long time ago.Bob Scowcroft: Yes, that video was shot it 1989.He noted that organic was about 1 percent of the food economy.
Bob Scowcroft: Yes, that video was shot it 1989.
Bob Scowcroft: Little over 4, 4.2, 4.3 Presenter 2: So I'm gonna ask the question from the other side.
Bob Scowcroft: Um, uh, absolute to this day, resistance from the agro industrial food system and it's an integrated system, crop insurance; you can't get organic crop insurance
Bob Scowcroft: All food total comes through 7 buyers.
Bob Scowcroft: It's not, everyone's gonna have pineapples but the "Bayh Dole Act" reformatted the entire research system to be product based.
Bob Scowcroft: Um, well, it's the opposition of the agricultural industry; some of you
Bob Scowcroft: You know, I think the infrastructure as immature as it is, has the capacity to
Bob Scowcroft: That's the, uh, that's the Pandora's Box and I'm happy to open it.
Bob Scowcroft: But I'm gonna ask you to hold it for just about 60 seconds until, I came to organic really trying to ban agent orange and my concerns about pesticides and
Bob Scowcroft: And that they had just, heck, where is it?
Bob Scowcroft: Um, certainly in the soils, you know, as the soils break down as it's all about breeding something will take up N, nitrogen N, faster and more efficiently.
Bob Scowcroft: Some other goodies.
Bob Scowcroft: Life, okay, this is kind of an ageist here Bob Scowcroft: 1970, Life magazine, as far
Bob Scowcroft: Uh, and, uh, it goes on to show that you see Santa Cruz Farm and Garden and talk about how organic has come of age
Bob Scowcroft: breathlessly the newest deal out there.
Bob Scowcroft: two other things here, maybe three I'm, I try to bring something to get a chuckle.
Bob Scowcroft: Or, actually, I'll show the book, too.
Bob Scowcroft: Cause they needed this staff but they kept 2 off permanently.
Bob Scowcroft: But it had, I thought I had the only copies of this document at that time.
Bob Scowcroft: Only 5 of the recommendations have been fully implemented.
Bob Scowcroft: I see some hands went like this.
Bob Scowcroft: So the National Enquirer calls and she says she's a reporter and I'm sure this is a joke, one of my buddies, I
Bob Scowcroft: And she was doing a story, "Are organic foods worth the cost?"
Bob Scowcroft: "Mister Scowcroft, do you wanna talk or not?"
Bob Scowcroft: And I thought, "Okay, one person at a time."
Bob Scowcroft: Uh, absolutely.
Bob Scowcroft: That's untrue.
Bob Scowcroft: Um, many.
Bob Scowcroft: Now a number have organic engagement programs but in my personal opinion, and since this is on film I'll be hearing it from many of them that I didn't name, but
Bob Scowcroft: You know, the success of the organic label, it is the only competitive conventional egg and it is extremely different, profoundly different.
Bob Scowcroft: Well, many of the animal welfare groups are trying but right now the
Bob Scowcroft: Uh, the complexity of the marketplace, you can get to a certain scale and go to 7 farmer's markets and you and maybe 1 or 2 workers harvest that and bring it direct
Bob Scowcroft: I would actually say it has been revolutionized even since Michael wrote that but it is in certain regional locations.
Bob Scowcroft: Sure.
Bob Scowcroft: Absolutely, the FAO has published a number of papers recently showing, that's an entity of the UN and I can't pull the name up right now.
Bob Scowcroft: And there's a rocket, no not rocket, well there's one person that's particularly been overseeing a lot of these peer reviewed research reports showing now
Bob Scowcroft: I think it could.
Bob Scowcroft: Now, Detroit has a food plan, it's very contrev, someone wants to industrialize that but basically Detroit has an actual plan and it's beginning to take some of these blocks
Bob Scowcroft: Yeah, it's not mine.
Bob Scowcroft: Well, yeah, the people's history of organic has a couple of PG-13 stories about it too.
Bob Scowcroft: Thank you very much for coming.
chicken itself Bob Scowcroft: but the producer that made it.
male #4: Bob Scowcroft: Well, my feeling is that to get it to 50 percent, those 7 buyers bring
male #5: Bob Scowcroft: I love that question.
Bob Scowcroft: You're welcome.
Bob Scowcroft: Supporting organic family farmers and I had to leave the building.
there's dinner party topic for ya Bob Scowcroft: had been tied to a certain antibiotic overused in poultry production.
Bob Scowcroft: Here's a couple Presenter 2: Life magazine?
Bob Scowcroft: In the theme of taking any interview at any time, let's see is this dated,
It was clear they had bought it themselves Bob Scowcroft: but they had about 5 degrees of separation to the fact that they had gotten