Organic AND local?
According to a post on Treehugger, the Soil Association (one of the UK's organic certification bodies) is considering adding shipping to their list of considerations to determine whether or not something is organic. In this instance, they are considering removing the organic label from any produce that air freighted on the idea that the pollution created to ship the organic produce all those miles eliminates any benefit of having grown it organically in the first place. I wonder if the USDA could be so enlightened? (HA! Not a chance if Wal*Mart, unWholeFoods, EdenFarms, and the like have their way would be my guess. Just think of it--what would unWholeFoods do if it couldn't ship organic garlic from China to New York?!?).
Still, it is good to see someone thinking more about the organic label. Organic, at least in the US, has come to mean nothing more than "chemical-free" (and not always that), and any sense of the original local, sustainable, and small, that the organic movement first had have disappeared.
A digression: my food today? Local bread--as in out of my own oven local.
Still, it is good to see someone thinking more about the organic label. Organic, at least in the US, has come to mean nothing more than "chemical-free" (and not always that), and any sense of the original local, sustainable, and small, that the organic movement first had have disappeared.
A digression: my food today? Local bread--as in out of my own oven local.
posted by Urban Peasant at 3:06 PM
1 Comments:
An excellent post. I definitely agree with you that “organic, at least in the US, has come to mean nothing more than ‘chemical-free.’” Sad, but true. Ditto, your posting on “UnWhole Foods.”
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