I was so duped! One of my regular blog reads, Dialogic, has posted about certain companies purposefully mislabeling their products as "USDA Organic".
"In April Organic Consumers Association launched a boycott of two leading organic dairy brands and distributors, Horizon (a division of Dean Foods) and Aurora, for mislabeling their products as "USDA Organic." All of Aurora's and much of Horizon's "organic" milk is coming from factory farm feedlots where the cows have been brought in from conventional farms and have little or no access to pasture. After three months, thousands of consumers and a number of co-ops and natural food stores have joined the boycott. Now it's time to expand the boycott to five grocery chains selling bogus organic milk from Aurora Organic:
Costco's "Kirkland Signature"
Publix’s “High Meadows"
Safeway's "O" Organics brand
Wild Oats' organic milk
Giant's "Nature's Promise."
In addition OCA is calling for a boycott of Horizon's sister soy brands--Silk soymilk and White Wave tofu--which have begun turning away from U.S. organic farmers and instead importing cheap organic soybeans from China and Brazil, where labor rights and environmental standards are routinely violated."
I won't be buying Costco organic milk or Silk soy beverages anymore.
2 comments:
Unfortunately it is but the tip of the iceberg... recently I have also been concerned about the organic labeling of dairy cows (even though I don't drink milk, I do eat a bit of cheese and lots of yogurt) that are bought at a lower price from industrial feed lots and placed on the larger organic dairy farms--where their milk products are then labeled as "organic" and sold at the higher price.
Don't feel bad about being duped--I'm right next to you in that regard and it is difficult to wade through the many regulations and evasions (of those regulations).
One of my friends told me of that practice of newly placed industrial cows on organic farms being labeled as organic. I think she said they only have to be there for like a year. A wolf in sheep's clothing...
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