On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:23:56 -0500, Herve Abeille <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

> I know many beekeepers selling
>honey in stores and at stands. They follow all the rules of conventional
>beekeeping. They use only approved chemicals in approved ways, they do not
>overheat their honey and have no way to filter it, even if they wanted to.
>
>These people are producing a product of excellent quality

It sounds to me like you just don’t want to concede that anyone else’s 
quality standards matter.  Of course, they don’t matter to you, or they’d 
be your quality standards, too, but why do you object so strongly to other 
beekeepers’ defending their way of doing things?  If they have any 
integrity they must believe that their way of doing things is better (and 
that the alternative way of doing things is worse).  How is that different 
from you calling honey produced according to approved/legal processes 
as “ruined”?  How is your degrading overheated honey any different from 
the “organic” guy degrading honey produced with the use of chemical 
pesticides?

You clearly have your beliefs and quality standards, and you defend them 
with degrading comparisons to the alternative.  I think that’s entirely 
appropriate so long as you do so with honesty and integrity.  I don't 
think, however, that organic arguments can be dismissed simply on the 
grounds that they imply superiority to the minimum legal standards or to 
your personal standards.

Eric

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