Guest guest Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 This is from the Organic Consumers Association.... http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/alert102505.cfm Stop Factory Farm Dairy Feedlots from Labeling Their Products as " USDA Organic " Click here to sign an important petition to the USDA: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm THE PROBLEM: Under pressure from big agribusiness, the USDA is deliberately refusing to take action against factory farm dairy feedlots who are unethically selling their products as " organic. " This blatant labeling fraud is compounded by a loophole in federal organic regulations that is allowing unscrupulous organic dairy farms to import young calves from non-organic conventional farms (where the animals have been weaned on cow blood, injected or medicated with antibiotics, and fed genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton seeds, laced with slaughterhouse waste and tainted animal fats). These confinement and feeding practices are inhumane, unhealthy, environmentally unsustainable, and unfair to the majority of organic dairy farmers, who follow strict organic principles on pasture access and animal feed, and do not import animals into their herds from conventional farms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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