Comments on: Are the Best Organic Standards the Toughest Organic Standards? Why the Activists Got it Wrong

By: Can We Trust the Soil Association? | Nagara

Can We Trust the Soil Association? | Nagara — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:25:13 +0000

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By: U.S. Adopts National Organic Standards: Victory for All, but… | Cooking Up a Story

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:02:10 +0000

[...] organic standards but they became much more prescriptive and restrictive. For example, NOP staffer Grace Gershuny – an experienced organic certification specialist – contributed a historically accurate compost [...]

By: cookie

cookie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:29:38 +0000

I think the key is to just ignore the organic label altogether. It’s just a coveted marketing label to allow companies to raise prices.

I had a little trouble understanding the nuances in this article. I thought NOP and USDA were effectively one and the same at the end of the day.

By: Bett

Bett — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:39:05 +0000

Oh now please. This is a whitewash job if I have ever seen one. Pretty graphics and invocation of the name of Gaia doth not an advocate for the land and people make.

I actually know a number of small organic farmers, and not one of them has any desire to use sewage sludge, concentrated animal feeding operations, genetically modified organisms, or irradiation. Those methods only benefit large producers.

Arrrgh . . .

By: The Organic Community, the USDA, and the Morning After |

The Organic Community, the USDA, and the Morning After | — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:02:52 +0000

[...] to keep pace with the NOSB, though it wisely hired a veteran expert on organic standards named Grace Gershuny to translate organic speak into federal regulatory language. After the NOSB wrapped up its work, [...]