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We monitor the increasingly corrupt relationship between corporate agribusiness and government regulators that has eroded the working definition of organics.
Working with our intelligence agents around the country, we are protecting what we have built together.
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A message from OrganicEye leadership (left to right): Mark Kastel, Bill Heart Will Fantle, and Jim Gerritsen—When it comes to preserving organics as an alternative to the chemical-intensive farming and food production system that is destroying our environment and health:
WE WON’T BACK DOWN.
We are OrganicEye. We Have the Power to Impact Our Future and We’re Doing Something About It.
Join the OrganicEye leaders, with their over 130 years of industry oversight, in building a new and important asset for the community. The organic farming movement started as a values-based industry. It was built on a loving, collaborative relationship between family-scale farmers and shoppers willing to pay for food produced based on superior environmental stewardship, humane animal husbandry and economic-justice for the people who produce our food. OrganicEye’s mission is ensuring these values and commitments are not compromised in the modern food system.
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From the Gumshoes at OrganicEye
A ONE-MAN WRECKING CREW IN THE ORGANIC DAIRY: A Lifetime of Service to the Planet and Its People — Mark Retzloff
Featured by Public Relations Firm Compass Natural in Their Podcast, Coffee Talk Part of our job at OrganicEye is acting, as our board...
Kastel’s Kitchen: Special Edition
Good Milk, Bad Milk, and Milk Money
Real Organic Project interviews OrganicEye’s Mark Kastel Choosing the best, authentic, nutrient-dense, and pasture-raised organic dairy products for...
NGO Appeals to Biden/Vilsack to Reverse Corporate Dominance in Organic Governance at the USDA
Updated White Paper Profiles Lobbyist-Affiliated Appointees to National Organic Standards Board La Farge, Wis. — Continuing a trend well established...
Veteran Policy Experts Move Organic Industry Watchdog Agency
USDA Failures Necessitate Reinventing the Federal Certification Program LA FARGE, Wis. — OrganicEye, a public interest group best known as one of...
OrganicEye Founder to Speak at 2022 Real Organic Symposium
Join OrganicEye Founder Mark Kastel at the 2022 Real Organic Project Symposium, a virtual series of interviews with well-respected organic farmers,...
Organic Industry News
Commentary: Another Scandal and Another Black Eye for Organics
OrganicEye Continues to Advocate for Testing of All Imports According to the USDA, everything certified by an outfit accredited by the National Organic Program is organic. Until it isn’t. For years I banged on the NOP to crack down on fraudulent imports of grain from...
The Revolving Door: Organic Lobby Group Taps Former USDA Appointee/Corporate Executive as CEO = Good News for the Corporate Agribusiness Fatcats
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) announced the appointment, on March 29, 2022, of Tom Chapman as the new Chief Executive Officer of the trade-lobby group based in Washington DC. Mr. Chapman was appointed by USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack to serve a five-year term on...
The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells.
To the editor (of the New York Times): Kim Severson’s excellent article on lab cultured “meat” leaves a few questions unanswered. With an investment juggernaut of billions of dollars’ worth of private capital pouring into this nascent “food” category, why should USDA...
VEC Lineworkers Save Local Farmer
I’m really blessed to be able to live and work in an agrarian community in Southwest Wisconsin. By one estimate, it is thought that Vernon County has more organic farmers than any other county in the country. I’m a member of Vernon Electric Co-op and my telephone...
“The Great Organic Food Fraud”
Hello Supporters of Food Justice, We commercialized the organic farming movement in the 1980s in order to provide an alternative to consumers who were hungry for food produced to a different standard and as an economic-justice vehicle to empower family-scale farmers...
Who Owns Organic?
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The stereotypical large farms of today’s agriculture are not unsustainable because they are large, they are large because they are managed unsustainably. They are unsustainable because they are managed ‘extensively’ – meaning they rely more on land and capital and less on thinking people.
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