by Mark Kastel | Aug 26, 2022 | ActionAlert, OrganicEye Posts
It Will Permanently Institutionalize Factory Conditions for Organic Poultry Comment by October 11 What part of the current regulations does the USDA not understand? The producer of an organic livestock operation must establish and maintain year-round livestock living... 
by Mark Kastel | Aug 26, 2022 | News Posts
Instead of being concerned with enforcing the letter and spirit of the law, and creating a level competitive playing field for all organic farmers, the USDA is willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax money in an effort to create more farming serfs... 
by Mark Kastel | Aug 1, 2022 | OrganicEye Posts
Milk Versus Milk Analogues Mark Kastel’s latest editorial was published on the homepage of Food Tank, an interesting site that provides diverse perspectives across many food systems... 
by Mark Kastel | Jul 20, 2022 | OrganicEye Posts
Demanding Reform of the USDA Organic Program For many of us involved in lobbying Congress to pass the Organic Food Production Act in 1990, our motivation was to create a level playing field with strictly enforced regulations that would assure shoppers they were... 
by Mark Kastel | Jul 20, 2022 | News Posts
By Pete Hardin, Publisher of The Milkweed Why should U.S. taxpayer dollars bankroll research that seeks to boost the fortunes of the so-called, “lab-cultured meat” industry? Jeepers creepers … firms attempting to develop and market “lab-cultured meat” have attracted...