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If experience is any guide, the lack of proper inspection and regulation of
big producers and processors will continue to endanger consumers whether
it's under the organic label or not. "Organic" will be degraded by cheating
and cost-cutting until it means nothing to the public. Meanwhile, the
regulatory paperwork will overwhelm many small growers. Now I worry that
any new label will be similarly coopted. Grow local, eat local.

paul & barb - on the continental divide
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On 10/16/2002 at 12:41 PM Del Williams wrote:

>October 16, 2002
>A Definition at Last, but What Does It All Mean?
>By MARIAN BURROS
>
>
>AFTER 30 years of ridicule, indifference and sometimes downright hostility
>from the government, the organic food movement has triumphed over the
>bureaucracy. Starting Monday, all foods labeled "organic" must comply with
>rigorous national standards that the movement has sought for years.
>