NR Daily: The Organic Industry Is in Turmoil

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, the grocer that brought pricey organic food to the masses, comes during a time of turmoil in the organic industry: The Department of Agriculture is continuing to investigate the importation of millions of pounds of phony organic grains. The move is in response to a lengthy Washington Post exposé published in May that tracked shipments of corn and soybeans from Turkey, Romania, and Ukraine that were labeled "organic" but were not (I wrote about it here). The Post reported that the fraudulent imports were "large enough to constitute a meaningful proportion of the U.S ...

July 12 2017

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