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  • From: Nancy Szerlag <szerlag@earthlink.net>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Nancy Szerlag <szerlag@earthlink.net>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Let's get gardeners to help change the USDA organics
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:46:51 -0400

I lost complete faith in the USDA when they allowed companies to label edibles with transfats to be transfat free.  I was led to believe you can't be a little bit pregnant. Our country is run by the lobbyist and the reality is, he who pays the most wins.  Any effort is better than sitting by and watching our world go down the toilet. Let's go for it!
Nancy Szerlag
On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Jeff Lowenfels wrote:

OOOps, I was so made I couldn't see straight.

I mean't to say that we should organize, use our pulpits and change the USDA regs on organics


ALERT:
USDA IGNORES PUBLIC REJECTION OF PROPOOSAL TO ALLOW 38 NON-ORGANIC INGREDIENTS & TOXIC FISH OIL IN FOODS LABELED AS "USDA ORGANIC"
Basically ignoring more than ten thousand emails and letters from consumers and farmers opposing the latest industry-sponsored attack on organic standards, the USDA has approved a proposal allowing 38 new non-organic ingredients to be allowed in products bearing the "USDA Organic" seal. But the agency says this may just be interim approval, and has offered to extend the public comment period another 60 days (the original public comment period was only 7 days). The USDA's controversial proposal will result in the following:

  • Anheuser Busch will be allowed to sell its "Organic Wild Hops Beer" without using any organic hops at all.
  • Sausages, brats, and breakfast links labeled as "USDA Organic" will be allowed to contain intestines from factory farmed animals raised on chemically grown feed, synthetic hormones, slaughterhouse waste, and antibiotics.
  • Products labeled as "USDA Organic" and containing fish oil may contain toxins such as PCBs and mercury.

 

 

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