The U.S. Corporatocracy and our right to organic food

[green_jenni]

Every so often (and getting more frequent), I have to write letters and emails to save organic standards. Sadly, it's time to do this again. Here's the latest attack on our right to organic food and something you can do about it.

Having to go through this effort every few years to fight the corporate food producing giants' attack on my food options

Comments

[darakat_ewr]

So basically they won't be organic anymore...

[green_jenni]

Definitely not organic as it's currently defined, which is this

[darakat_ewr]

Yeah thats what I thought (though I didn't know what counted as organic under US law) this would basically allow some currently commercialized meat count as "organic" and thus any authority from contamination by things like steroids, non organic feed, irradiation, etc which were the reasons for having such a thing as "organic food" in the first place. Its basically "we want to sell our stuff as organic because it sound healthy and people buy it" and it becomes yet another useless name for the commercialized world.

[green_jenni]

Yup, that about sums it up. It will also put a lot of organic farmers out of business, since organic farms tend to be smaller than commercial agribusiness farms and won't be able to compete if people aren't allowed to know which products are truly organic.

It's also an environmental issue, as you can see by the standards that to currently have the organic label you have to take care of the land, which most major agribusinesses do not do.