My bias has nothing to do with any familial ties to an “organization”
My mother works on a consulting basis as a third party auditor that the USDA organic program calls in to look at the books of companies who are green washing and have been reported for trying to circumvent the certification- commitment to organic standards and being an expert in the field of organic practice is not a bias towards an organization- you’re playing twisty.
I think that the standards should be stricter, and yes that means that a lot of people who are farming using organic practices get cut out and that sucks, but it also keeps the green washers from being able to manipulate and game the system-
People who are doing it right, they can absolutely do it right and claim to farm under organic practices- if they’re small farms they have their own benefits in terms of marketing
The USDA organic program isn’t out to regula small mom and pop farms, it’s there to regulate and combat massive corporate farms who would love to hear you doing everything you can to discredit the people enforcing standards that make them live up to their claims
If you hire an employee that went through OSHA training and they fuck up, does OSHA pay for the damages?
What about an employee that goes through an Organic certification class?
Name a certification that removes all your responsibility as a business owner.
By your logic, if you hire an employee with a bachelors degree from a University, who then sexually assaults another employee, the University is liable…
No there is clearly a clause that protects GLG from being held liable for the behavior of people who have gone through the program, are you high? This is a stupid question that has been posed in various forms throughout the thread
Sexual harassment is illegal, you hold the individual responsible for their own actions- it’s not like the GLG is a church sending out missionaries to help your shitty grow out in an effort to convert you to higher standards of cleanliness and then raping your wives- @Future definitely has some cult leader vibes but I think y’all are taking this a hair far
What if the GLG is infiltrated by undercover DEA agents funded by pharma and tobacco company donations in an effort to use the certification to gain entry into the industry and then systematically dismantle and discredit the businesses founded by former/current industry BM operators?
These are not my opinions or beliefs, but are references to the other insane people of the internet who post around here, drugs and fear of police make you paranoid apparently
You can be a “natural”, “regenerative” or Korean natural farmer without certification from USDA, OMRI, or NOP. Those certifications are like paying the BBB so you can charge more for your products. It’s absolutely an advertising ploy.
Well, I do remember them… are they a valid claim? Id take that with a grain of salt.
It’s kind of like when you pass the crazy guy on the street with a PA system…just keep on walking
I’ve never hired anyone with any of those certs in a bho lab, never seen them on the 200 plus extractor resumes I’ve glanced over either. I’m usually looking for relevant experience
if the GLG thing was free it would be a cute bullet point on a resume for someone with no experience but id rather see them have a training cert from the maker of the cls they are using like an ETS class.
I get what you are trying to do and it seems like a nice way to gather up new membership funds but as someone who actually has held job titles that have me to hire extractors It wouldn’t add aby value whatsoever compared to their actual job experience.
When it comes to entry level people It would be like forcing subway sandwich makers to have a 3rd party cert to make sandwiches.
