New York Times
By Tracie McMillan
IN the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots at the […]
Critics Claim China’s Fledgling Organic Industry Is Plagued By Lax Standards
CBS4, Miami
Liv Davalos
MIAMI (CBS4) ― It used to be that you could only find organc food in specialty health food stores. But that has changed as the organic industry is proving to be big business. Now, China is getting in on the action exporting […]
COMPETITION: Sen. Leahy, D-Vt., recently took funds from organization he has harshly criticized
Watertown Daily Times
By Marc Heller, Washingonton Correspondent
WASHINGTON — When Dairy Farmers of America, the nation’s largest marketing cooperative for dairy farmers, was poised to gain 90 percent of the market in New England a few years ago, the loudest objections came from Sen. […]
Offending Companies Claim “Organic” or “Organics” on Labels But Main Cleansing Ingredients Are Based on Conventional Agricultural and/or Petrochemical Material
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The family owned Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against numerous personal care brands to force them to stop making misleading organic labeling claims.
Dr. […]