Physician characteristics included age, gender, race, whether board certified, and whether graduated from foreign medical school.
Those agencies then asked the state's certified agents whether they wanted to receive any of these names.
Certified mail, whether a return receipt is requested or not, is almost always an acceptable form of service for court orders such as a subpoena duces tecum.
But the NCAA has gone in the opposite direction — in 2012, the college league banned anyone who had been convicted of any kind of felony from participating in any NCAA-certified event, whether as a referee, organizer or coach.
"It would be a distraction if we spent all our time debating whether certified organic or non-organic is the way forward," she replies.
Whether certified or legally-registered, all B Corps are part of "a global movement to redefine success in business," explains Jay Coen Gilbert, "So companies are competing not to be best in the world but best for the world".
"It's a good idea to raise consciousness about the fact that you need good teachers -- whether certified or not -- in bad schools," said Robert Riccobono, a visiting scholar at New York University and former superintendent in District 19, in East New York, Brooklyn.
Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and an outspoken standards-board member, made the case against synthetics in a 1996 article that was much debated, "Can an Organic Twinkie Be Certified?" She questioned whether organic should simply mirror the existing food supply, with its highly processed, salted and sugary junk food, or whether it should aspire to something better -- a countercuisine.
I'm not advocating a free pass or get-out-of-jail card for geniuses, whether certified or self-proclaimed, but suggesting rather that the inability of certain rare, strong, and unworldly characters to live humanely and within self-imposed limits is a tragedy in the classical, Aristotelian sense.
Paying more for food well grown in good soils — whether certified organic or not — will contribute not only to your health (by reducing exposure to pesticides) but also to the health of others who might not themselves be able to afford that sort of food: the people who grow it and the people who live downstream, and downwind, of the farms where it is grown.
