Did they start life as organic goslings produced from fully organic parents kept to full organic standards?
Ours do. We have our own organic breeding flock and hatch goslings for sale to other organic farmers, as well as to rear ourselves. Some organic geese start life as non-organic goslings which are usually cheaper than organic goslings because of the scale of production and the much lower feed costs for the breeder flocks. They may even have been imported from eg Denmark as day-olds. If bought in large numbers they can be imported very cheaply. Organic producers who also operate large scale intensive units can therefore combine their gosling orders for both organic and non-organic units and because of the huge numbers involved in total can screw down the price to extremely low levels. Does it matter if organic geese are produced from non-organic goslings? If you value the many contributions that organic farming makes to the environment, rural employment, and sustainability generally, then surely it does matter that an organic goose should have a full organic pedigree. If you believe “We
