Washington – New federal rules that define what makes milk and meat organic have
natural food advocates optimistic that the government is committed to ensuring
the label means something.
U.S. consumers bought $24 billion worth of organic products in 2008. But for
many, the purchases came with uncertainty about what they were getting for their
money.
“During the Clinton and the Bush administrations there wasn’t a lot of teeth in
the enforcement aspect of it,” said Tom Willey, 61, an organic fruit and
vegetable farmer in Madera, Calif. “Things have kind of been in a morass as far
as enforcement for a number of years, but now we’re very hopeful that will
change.”
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