Last Minute Rulemaking by Bush USDA Threatens Organic Farmers

by Cody Marx Bailey on December 5, 2008

From CommonDreams.org:

CORNUCOPIA, Wisconsin – December 3 – Many media outlets, from the New York Times to the blogosphere, have tracked what has been dubbed the “corporate takeover” of organic farming. One of the hottest controversies in this rapidly growing $20 billion industry has been giant factory farms milking thousands of cows each in feedlots and masquerading as organic. Some of these industrial dairies are controlled by the nation’s largest agribusinesses.

Read the rest at http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/03-5

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