USDA turns blind eye to feces in organic food..........................by Mischa Popoff

Is food better if it’s produced the old fashion way? With feces?

 

The recent hepatitis outbreak in Costco’s certified-organic frozen-berry mix caused 150 people to fall ill across 8 states. Many were hospitalized, but the leaders of the organic industry are still hiding their heads in the sand while the media provides cover for them. You can read the full story on Breitbart’s Big-Government, National Taxpayers Union, Consumer Affairs, and Food Safety News.

 

Meanwhile, not a day goes by that these same activists don’t fire repeated salvos at modern, science-based farming, claiming it’s harmful to people’s health. But isn’t feces harmful? I support organic farming and can attest that honest, hard-working domestic organic farmers are not to blame for any of this. They overwhelmingly support science, technology and safety. In fact, many support biotechnology, foreseeing the day when it will unite with organic farming. But the leadership of the organic industry wants to prevent this by forestalling all progress on the farm, and they’re making headway at an alarming pace.

 

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says “Our responsibility is food safety,” but then turns a blind eye to all these cases of feces entering the organic food chain and lets the FDA take the lead instead of his department. The sad fact of the matter is that Vilsack knows the National Organic Program is nothing more than a grandiose marketing scheme. This is why, incidentally, he and Miles McEvoy, the Deputy Administrator of the USDA NOP, are both standing idly by while China flagrantly continues to flout American law on organics.

 

Mischa Popoff, B.A. (Hons.) U. of S.