(new here)
Organic ag in the US just had a major setback. Read about it in the following site. Bear in mind, when reading this, not all groups calling themselves organic, have organic objectives at heart.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm
In the US, organic growers are generally smaller sized farmers. The huge corporate farms are to massive to provide the speciallized care needed when not using chemicals. I mean the could but that would mean a much larger staff for an operation owned by people who never see the farm. (Sound a bit like the old Plantations?) (Has the "Stars and Bars raised again?)
Its much easier on such a large scale, not to investigate or to think that much. Easier just to routinely spray everything on a regular basis. A few are learning that this approach is killing to important topsoil bacteria, but most are not worried enough to improve their operation.
Is my memory correct? This same thing happened 30 or so years ago, here in the US. Chemical and then new complex processing free food products from smaller producers began to show up at the market labelled "Natural". That these products brought a bit higher price than the major mass produced stuff infuriated big food product boards of directors. It seems the corporate producers were able to override Those small companies sending products named "Natural" by getting congress to pass a law saying what's natural, which included granulated processed sugar, and other items. I seem to recall that this effort thwarted that threat to mass production.
BAD legislation? Hey, this was a secret bill add on!
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