To: Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Keep organic food organic!
Keep organic food organic!
Stop appointing corporate executives and lobbyists that have vital interest in promoting genetically engineered and nanotechnology-based ingredients to National Organic Standards Board!
Stop appointing corporate executives and lobbyists that have vital interest in promoting genetically engineered and nanotechnology-based ingredients to National Organic Standards Board!
Why is this important?
Organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food companies that use their appointed members of National Organic Standards Board to push for more and more non-organic ingredients to be accepted for "Certified Organic" label. The facts have been reported in the recent article found in The New York Times (URL below).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/business/organic-food-purists-worry-about-big-companies-influence.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/business/organic-food-purists-worry-about-big-companies-influence.html?partner=rss&emc=rss