Homegrown
I’ve always been suspicious of the USDA Organic certification process, and my bullshit detector went on full alert when larger companies starting buying smaller producers and turning them into massive food machines.
After the acquisitions, the next step was to begin the lobbying process in the hope of changing organic standards. The goal being to water down organic standards and therefore (supposedly) reduce costs.
Who benefits?
The chemical lobby supports this measure (duh),and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the lead players from major food conglomerates, chemical companies and guvment officials aren’t spending a lot of time together chasing little white balls around a chemically enhanced country club lawn discussing how they can all profit by dismantling the organic “threat.”
Organics have become an industry and all of the aforementioned groups are looking for any way they can to pad their pockets, especially the guvment.
Organic foods are now a booming industry. High growth. Big profits to be made. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could benefit from that little label without having to change all your production methods that much? Hmmm….
I like organic foods, but what good does it really do to have organic foods that are shipped 1500 miles using fossil fuels? The food may be better, but there’s still that old fossil fuel problem.
The folks in this article have an answer to all of these issues.