"sf" > wrote in message
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> 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

Yeah. I don't doubt it. I no longer buy mostly organic. From what I have
read, just because of all the crap in our rain and our soil, even if the
farmer doesn't add stuff, it's there to an extent anyway.