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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Target Accused Of Organic Food Fraud
  • Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:37:05 -0600


Target Accused Of Organic Food Fraud
Updated: 10-20-09 09:04 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/target-accused-of-organic_n_327639.html


Ever wonder if the organic-labeled milk you're drinking is really organic? If
you purchased it at Target, it might not be. The Cornucopia Institute, a food
and agriculture watchdog group, announced Tuesday that it has filed formal
complaints with USDA's organic program accusing Target Corporation of organic
food fraud. And in the midst of HuffPost's No Impact Week no less! From the
group's press release:

The complaints are the latest salvo into a growing controversy whereas
corporate agribusiness and major retailers have been accused of blurring the
line between "natural" products and food that has been grown, processed and
properly certified organic under tight federal standards.


"Major food processors have recognized the meteoric rise of the organic
industry, and profit potential, and want to create what is in essence
'organic light,' taking advantage of the market cachet but not being willing
to do the heavy lifting required to earn the valuable USDA organic seal,"
said Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at Cornucopia.

The Wisconsin-based farm policy research group discovered Target
nationally advertised Silk soymilk in newspapers with the term "organic"
pictured on the carton's label, when in fact the manufacturer, Dean Foods,
had quietly shifted their products away from organics.

This is not the first time Target has been tainted by such accusations. In
September 2007, the USDA threatened to revoke the organic status of Aurora
Organic Dairy, a Colorado farm that supplies Target, and other stores, with
milk.

This has been a big season for organic outrage -- after Whole Foods CEO John
Mackey declared his store sells "a bunch of junk," he penned a Wall Street
Journal Op-Ed attacking Obama's health care plan which resulted in activist
outrage and a series of boycotts.





  • [Livingontheland] Target Accused Of Organic Food Fraud, Tradingpost, 10/20/2009

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