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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Essay on organic movement today
  • Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:25:47 -0400


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Published on Monday, May 31, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
The Organic Foods Movement - Led by Heinz Corporation or We
the People?
The Time to Choose is Now

by Paul Cienfuegos

In the past few weeks, the USDA has once again attempted to
weaken the federal organics standards that so many Americans
have worked hard to enshrine into federal law. These changes
would have allowed food labeled as "USDA Organic" to contain
hormones and antibiotics in dairy cattle, pesticides on
produce and potentially contaminated fishmeal as feed for
livestock. As happened with a number of other outrageous
recent USDA actions, citizens groups and the organic food
industry rallied in opposition, and were successful in
reversing the proposed changes.

The rest of the article may be seen at:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0531-11.htm

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Pat




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