Can't even eat organic meat...
Mar. 11th, 2003 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzOrganic, or is it?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/878131.asp?cp1=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2852-2003Mar9.html
Also from “Food chemical news:
USDA: Organic outrage – weakened labeling causes furor.
In a case of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t, a key provision of the new National Organic Program has disappeared before the eyes of USDA and the organic agriculture community. The USDA program, which took effect in October 2002 after 12 long years, sets standards for labeling products as “organic.” Now, much to the chagrin of the people who came up with those standards, a rider attached to the recently enacted $397 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act allows producers to label their meat and dairy products ‘organic’ – even though they don’t meet the criteria set by USDA, which requires animals to be fed 100% organically grown feed. The last minute rider, which would allow producers to bypass the organic feed requirement when and if its price is twice that of conventional feed, was slipped in by Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA.), at the behest of Fieldale Farms, a Baldwin, Ga. poultry company. The new rule also requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the commercial availability of organic feed.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/878131.asp?cp1=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2852-2003Mar9.html
Also from “Food chemical news:
USDA: Organic outrage – weakened labeling causes furor.
In a case of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t, a key provision of the new National Organic Program has disappeared before the eyes of USDA and the organic agriculture community. The USDA program, which took effect in October 2002 after 12 long years, sets standards for labeling products as “organic.” Now, much to the chagrin of the people who came up with those standards, a rider attached to the recently enacted $397 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act allows producers to label their meat and dairy products ‘organic’ – even though they don’t meet the criteria set by USDA, which requires animals to be fed 100% organically grown feed. The last minute rider, which would allow producers to bypass the organic feed requirement when and if its price is twice that of conventional feed, was slipped in by Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA.), at the behest of Fieldale Farms, a Baldwin, Ga. poultry company. The new rule also requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the commercial availability of organic feed.
