“USDA Employs Lax Oversight of Organic Farms,” by Mischa Popoff and Jay Lehr
The leaders of the American organic food industry, sitting in their perches in offices far removed from the soil and toil of actual farming, sustain an unfounded attack against conventional, nonorganic food, charging that it is impure and hardly nutritious. We all know that purity and nutrition are readily provable through scientific analysis, but here we have the activist leadership of the multibillion-dollar organic food industry pointing the finger at our main food industry, accusing it of failing to measure up, when all the while there is no field testing being done in the organic industry. In other words, not only is the organic industry not measuring up, it is not even bothering to measure. Read the full article on Heartland.org.
Questioning USDA Organic Certification
September 10, 2012