On 6/9/2013 12:12 PM, sf wrote:
> Just confirming what we already knew, but it's concerning all the
> same.
>
> Here's part of the text:
>
> With the rise of industrial organic, these more revolutionary impulses
> have disappeared. Corporations have adopted practices that make a
> mockery of what people think they are buying when they pay extra for
> an eco-friendly label. For one, major organic brands now source from
> across the globe. Stonyfield yogurt uses milk from New Zealand,
> bananas from Ecuador, and apple products from Turkey. Costco gets
> organic peanuts from China, a country not known for rigorous
> environmental regulation. And these are not isolated examples.
>
> http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16...lty-fair-trade
>

Thanks for that, I'm becoming a real label-reading skeptic, shopping
takes a lot longer these days.