Archive for June, 2004

Study Confirms Safety of Organic Food But Agrichemical Front Group Attempts to Twist Findings

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

The same right-wing think tank that conspired with John Stossel of ABC News, in an erroneous attempt to discredit organic food (subsequently forcing an apology from the network), is at it again. The Hudson Institute, and its father and son team of Dennis and Alex Avery, are attempting to spin a new report that actually concluded there was no “statistically different” risk in the pathogenic contamination of organic food verses its conventionally produced counterparts

Value Of ‘organic’ Label Debated

Monday, June 14th, 2004

By Mary Bergin
The Capital Times

The “100 percent organic” label is the federal government’s way of defining product purity, but not all organic farmers say it’s worth the work or expense to obtain.