permaculture

[lbsaltzman@aol.com]

That is easy. The Organic Consumer Association where I got this from is 
conducting a boycott against Dean Food's Horizon Milk and Silk Soy brands.? 
Cows are being kept in terrible confined conditions and they will buy cows 
that weren't raised organically and use them in their herds etc. etc.? A lot 
of the soy is sourced from China and Brazil. It is destructive to the 
environment, their are human rights abuses of the farm workers etc. For more 
details see:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4756

Also go to the main website http://www.organicconsumers.org?and start reading 
more of?what is going on.? In my opinion the decision by many organic farmers 
to get a national organic standard was a disaster.? They opened the door to 
corporations and once the corporations got their foot in the door it only 
took the Bush Administration to listen to them and to begin shredding the 
organic standards.? 

We have to move towards the goal of local sustainable food sources. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Troupe <jodyt2@mac.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 5:27 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Corporations and Organics




Wow, interesting, and disappointing. I wonder if its hard to find out  
if the 'new owners' changed any of the original sourcing or manufacture  
of those products?



On Jul 26, 2007, at 7:15 PM, lbsaltzman@aol.com wrote:

> http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/OrganicTop25Jul07.pdf?
>
> A wonderful chart of Which big corporations own various brands of  
> organic food.?
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