Re: [compost_tea] Re: Compost Testing?

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 07:36:28 -0400
No one has suggested that that anyone, rich or poor, should test themselves into bankruptcy. 

Your response that it all depends on income is just nonsense. 

Over and over again on this list, many of us have suggested useful testing methods that people strapped for money can do, that will not cost anything. 

A few well-thought-out samples, sent in to assess the appropriate factors, can guide people away from spending thousands of dollars on un-necessary toxic chemicals. 

Or do you advocate that people go through life without determining why anything works, just because it might cost a few dollars to do the testing? 

If you like flying in the dark, doing trial and error without any idea of why something does or does not work, then proceed to live without the benefit of doing any testing. 

For those of us who like to know why things work the way they do, testing is necessary.  We can determine clearly what the next step needs to be, based on the results from appropriate tests. 

Enough of the snide comments and undermining of the science-based approach.  Adequate testing is required.  NO ONE has suggested testing just to spend money.  Get real. 

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
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Received on Sat May 01 2004 - 08:41:51 EDT

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