Hi Barney,
I find it very heartening that Edwin Oxlade in this current months magazine (April 2008) seems to have similar concerns about the Soil Associations activities as myself. In his article Muck Raking he is less than pleased with them.
Quote.
"Apart from being suspicious of a referee who makes his own rules, do I worry about the Soil Association.
My main concern is that the Soil Association, among others, has managed to turn a simple ideal into an illogical, convoluted, politicised morass. And that is bad for us all".
I was told by a person in authority in the Soil Association best part of 20 years ago (or even longer ago) that they will lobby and lobby until all gardeners are forced to be organic. This seems to becoming a reality because there is no opposition. When the Tory Party decided to use the 'green issue' as an election gimmick and make the Soil Association the main Accreditor to Organic Growing in UK they did organics and gardeners a very bad turn. The Tories only did it that way because it was a cheap way out and cost them nothing.
I feel that if Edwin Oxlade can come out against them I feel that it is time for people to speak out.
JB.
