[bmj]

I'm familiar with Salatin's writing (and practices), and I think his argument would be that if you have face-to-face transactions with the producer (Salatin won't ship his meat, for example--you must come to the farm to pick it up), you don't need a certifier because you are holding the producer accountable, and you can require that his processes are transparent.

Certainly you can argue that someone should do this for you, but Salatin is trying to shift the paradigm of how we produce and consume food.

EDIT: Corrected the mis-spelling. Duh.