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To: epicure who wrote (4656)	10/25/2005 5:13:46 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541472

A friend of mine just sent me this- I'm going to look in to it. We buy a lot of organic foods- many direct from small farmers, but others at places like Whole Foods- and I'd like to make sure organic actually means organic- so I post this for anyone who is also interested in this: Under pressure from big agribusiness, the USDA is deliberately refusing to take action against factory farms 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 genuine organic farmers, who follow strict organic principles on pasture access and animal feed, and do not import animals into their herds from conventional farms. Thousand of consumers and farmers are calling on the USDA to take action on this issue at its National Organic Standards Board meeting on November 16, 2005. Please sign the petition that will be presented at that meeting to end factory farmed organics. Take action here: organicconsumers.org From the Organic Consumers Association Take action now at democracyinaction.org