USDA

Bush USDA to Destroy Organic Standards
06-Dec-02
USDA

From a small house in western Maine heated by a wood stove and lit by oil lamps, Arthur Harvey is single-handedly taking on the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In a 20-page lawsuit he wrote himself, Harvey charges that USDA and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman have filled the agency's new guidelines for labeling of organic products with so many loopholes as to make them virtually meaningless. The purpose, of course, knowing this administration, is to so cheapen organic standards so that giant agribusinesses can label nearly everything as "organic."