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Bush Administration
Moving to Allow
Corporate Takeover of Organics!
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Over the past few weeks America's organic
standards have once again come under heavy attack. First the USDA's National
Organic Program (NOP) announced on April 14 that they would no longer
monitor or police "organic" labels on non-agricultural products, literally
opening the door for unscrupulous companies to put bogus organic labels on
products such as fish, body care products, pet foods, fertilizer, and
clothing.
In the case of seafood and body care
products, the marketplace is already starting to become flooded with
products bearing the organic label, even though the production methods
(industrial fish farms) or content ("organic" shampoos with organic claims
based upon added water) in many of these products violate traditional
organic principles. Besides giving the green light to bogus organic labels
the new USDA "scope policy" penalizes genuine organic companies that have
begun sourcing, certifying, and labeling their products as organic.
Corporate agribusiness and the biotech lobby
have apparently decided that strict organic farming practices and the
booming organic market constitute a threat to their bottom line, and have
called on their friends in the Bush administration USDA to degrade organic
standards and prepare for a restructuring of organic production so as to
facilitate the use of industrial agriculture practices such as pesticides,
antibiotics, non-organic feed, growth hormones and even genetically
engineered animal drugs.
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