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 | 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 | Oct 2, 2020 | ActionAlert, OrganicEye Posts
Organic Lobby Brags about Influencing Massive Rewrite of RulesLegal Mandate to Consult NOSB/Public Sidestepped Comments are due by October 5 at 11:59 pm EDT at Regulations.gov. USDA has presented to the public a massive and far-reaching rewrite of the regulations...
by Mark Kastel | Aug 19, 2020 | ActionAlert, OrganicEye Posts
Legal Complaints Filed against Natural Prairie, Massive Livestock Factories THE STORY: A QUICK OVERVIEW Natural Prairie, one of the nation’s largest “organic” factory dairies, managing over 25,000 head, accused of gross “mistreatment and neglect” of their animals....
by Mark Kastel | May 20, 2020 | ActionAlert, OrganicEye Posts
For years, USDA has been looking the other way as giant corporate agribusinesses, primarily producing conventional eggs and poultry, have squeezed family-scale farmers out of the market and misled and defrauded consumers. Due to a lawsuit challenging the Trump...