It might be important...a farmer outside Palmerston north has managed to have a Golf course closed down because the miss directed golf balls were not organic and therefore compromised their Organic Farm status. (National Radio rural report)
Our friendly farmer claimed 20,000 balls were retrieved from his paddocks alongside the golf course over the last 12 months. This raises more questions than it answers;
1) Are there "non-organic" golf balls??
2) How totally myopic are their Organic certifiers??
3) How bad are the golfers from Palmerston North?? 20,000 balls in 12 months...that's 55 per day each and every day of the year...go figure.
This only illustrates the total nonsense that is "organic food"...because by default the rest is non-organic...yeah right.
So if you are considering landing out you might want to have a "fully organic" sticker on your glider...you could cut one off a package of over-priced, insect infested, grotty looking organic carrots from your local supermarket perhaps....
Complete gobshite isn't it? I was reading the article myself on Stuff just yesterday, thinking and hoping it was just a wind-up... The Course in question was opened in '76 and this Organic Farmer bought the farm in '77 and went Organic the following year. Probably the most disgusting part of the article was the quote from the farmer regarding the court's decision - "A totally predictable outcome"
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