by Mark Kastel | Nov 11, 2021 | News Posts
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... 
by Mark Kastel | Nov 3, 2021 | News Posts
COMMENTARY BY ELIOT COLEMAN The interest in using soil-less hydroponic systems to grow food is an example of what Teddy Goldsmith decried in his book The Way (1992) as “the methodical substitution of the technosphere or surrogate world for the ecosphere or real... by Mark Kastel | Oct 6, 2021 | OrganicEye Posts
Sign Your Proxy Letter: Demand Biden/Vilsack Listen to Organic Farmers and Consumers I mailed the letter below to OrganicEye members and supporters last month. Right now, I’m asking you to please join us in doing three things to protect organic farming. It’s under... 
by Mark Kastel | Sep 28, 2021 | ActionAlert, OrganicEye Posts
Comments are due to the NOSB by September 30 at 11:59 pm EDT at Regulations.gov. The USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meets next month to consider approving, or reapproving, synthetic and non-organic materials for use in organic farming and food... 
by Mark Kastel | Sep 21, 2021 | Kastel's Kitchen Posts, OrganicEye Posts
Unless you are eating local, fresh, unprocessed, whole organic food, it isn’t enough to just look for the USDA Organic logo—you must become a label reader! Federal law requires all certified organic products to state which USDA accredited certifier has inspected and...