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"Tim Campbell" <timcall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Just when we thought it couldn't get any hotter (or any more mind-
> boggling), the "organic" dairy factory farm controversy reached a new
> level of intensity over the past week. The USDA announced, to the
> disappointment of the organic community, that they were not going to
> take further disciplinary measures against Aurora Organic Dairy, a
> company that just a few weeks ago had a ****tion of its organic
> certification suspended by the USDA for "willfully" violating National
> Organic Standards since 2003 by failing to pasture its animals and by
> bringing conventional calves onto its feedlots and then declaring them
> organic. But caving in to pressure from Aurora and other big cor****ate
> players in the organic sector , the USDA now says the #1 organic
> private label dairy processor in the U.S. can continue selling milk
> produced on its factory farms as "organic" to its longstanding
> customers including Target, Wal-Mart, Costco, Safeway, and Woodstock
> Farms.
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> In a mind-twisting manipulation of logic, the new acting Secretary of
> Agriculture, Chuck Connors, a notorious cheerleader for biotech and
> cor****ate agribusiness, announced last week that this issue, regarding
> Aurora's violation of the USDA National Organic Standards, falls
> outside the scope of the USDA National Organic Standards. "I know
> there is controversy out there on a number of issues that really fall
> outside the bounds, if you will, of what constitutes that organic
> standard that is necessary in order for the product to have our seal,"
> said Connors.
> Now that they have the USDA in their pocket, Aurora is threatening to
> sue the Organic Consumers Association and Cornucopia Institute for
> educating and mobilizing consumers to oppose Aurora's blatant
> violations of organic integrity. In related news, the recent issue of
> Fortune Magazine re****ts Aurora's factory farms generated a record 100
> million dollars in "organic" dairy sales to consumers this year. In
> other words, when it comes to suing the OCA, Aurora has plenty of
> money, from selling its cheap "organic" factory farm milk to Wal-Mart,
> Target, Costco, and Safeway . So given this David versus Goliath
> situation, OCA needs your financial sup****t today, more than ever, to
> defend ourselves from this attack by Aurora and to expose the ongoing
> negligence of the USDA.
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