"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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...-organic-limit
>> ed-local-faulty-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.

There was a recent article in Le canard enchaîné which exposed
the machinations of the mafia, taking advantage of relaxed
regulations in Europe, to buy cheap produce in Romania and sell
it as organic in Italy.

http://fr.sott.net/article/9452-Des-...onnes-de-faux-
produits-bio-ecoulees-en-Europe

http://tinyurl.com/mgpx4tw

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