I mentioned in my post, The History of Organic Farming, that with the 21st century there came a surge in the popularity of organic products. The growing popularity of organics and hard work of those within the organic community has made organics a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, this has drawn those who want to reap the financial benefits but could care less about the integrity and ideology behind organic products.

This is becoming a huge problem because these same people, in the form of large corporations, are trying to lower organic standards. Now, does this make sense to anybody? Because it makes NO sense to me. I think it is totally ridiculous and illogical. A category of agriculture already exists that has lower standards, its called industrialized farming! Are they wanting to change the name “industrialized farming” to “organic farming”? We cannot let terms become so relative that we have no idea what we are talking about any more. I get that these corporations don’t care about the organic industry and see it as a good business opportunity where they can make a lot of money. This will go on until people finally catch on that what they have really done is just steal the term organic and use it to re-label industrialized agriculture.

It is important that we work to keep organic standards high. In fact, if anything, organic standards need to be raised. Those of us who believe in the ideology and importance of organic agriculture need to protect it and not let the USDA and members of Congress sell off the hard work of the Organic Movement.

To read more or take action visit Safeguard Organic Standards at Organic Consumers Association.

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