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  • From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Organic?
  • Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:04:46 -0700

An article on the farm bill. Food stamps, farm payments, meat labels and "organic".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/food_farm_programs

>>The bill delays until 2008 a meat labeling law that was to have gone into effect last year. Pressure from meatpackers and supermarkets has blocked the labels, which would tell shoppers what country their meat comes from.

The measure also overrides a court ruling on whether products with the round, green "USDA Organic" seal can contain small amounts of non-organic ingredients. An appeals court decided earlier this year that non-organic substances things like vitamins or baking powder are not allowed in food bearing the seal.

But more than 200 companies and trade groups said they can't make organic yogurt and many other products without the ingredients in question, and congressional negotiators agreed. An industry group, the Organic Trade Association, said the ruling could cost manufacturers $758 million annually. Organic food has grown rapidly, from a $1 billion industry in 1990 to an estimated $14.5 billion this year.<<




  • [Homestead] Organic?, Rob, 10/30/2005

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