Guest guest Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 INDUSTRY SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS RAMMED THROUGH CONGRESS Despite receiving over 350,000 letters and phone calls from OCA members and the organic community, Republican leaders in Congress October 27 attached a rider to the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations Bill to weaken the nation's organic food standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers. " Congress voted last night to weaken the national organic standards that consumers count on to preserve the integrity of the organic label, " said Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association. " The process was profoundly undemocratic and the end result is a serious setback for the multi billion dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community has so painstakingly built up over the past 35 years. As passed, the amendment sponsored by the Organic Trade Association allows: Numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review. Young dairy cows to continue to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production. Loopholes under which non-organic ingredients could be substituted for organic ingredients without any notification of the public based on " emergency decrees. " OCA will work to reverse this rider with an " Organic Restoration Act " in Congress in 2006. http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human: Aldous Huxley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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