by Mark Kastel | May 17, 2025 | Commentary, OrganicEye Posts
Advocates Publish Guide to Bypass Federal Agency The Story: A Quick Overview In 1990, Congress passed legislation charging the USDA with protecting ethical organic farmers and consumers from fraud. They have willfully failed in that responsibility. Factory farm... 
by Mark Kastel | Apr 23, 2025 | Commentary, OrganicEye Posts
Time for the USDA’s Organic Program to Join the 21st Century and Recognize Internet Shopping THE STORY: A QUICK OVERVIEW It is time to address the changing needs of the 31 percent of the American population who purchase organic food. An estimated 150.7 million... 
by Mark Kastel | Apr 7, 2025 | Commentary, OrganicEye Posts
Employee of Largest Certifier, CCOF, Implicated LA FARGE, WIS — After a 15-month investigation by law enforcement in Wisconsin and California into emails and a phone call threatening violence against the nation’s preeminent organic industry watchdog, the Vernon... 
by Mark Kastel | Mar 25, 2025 | Commentary, OrganicEye Posts
Fundamentally Flawed: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 The quick take: The new OrganicEye white paper challenges the legitimacy of encouraging shoppers to purchase commonly contaminated conventional (non-organic) produce. Abundant published... 
by Julie Wilson | Mar 12, 2025 | OrganicEye Posts
Like other federal regulatory agencies, the USDA and its National Organic Program are facing staffing cuts, raising questions about the program’s future. Last week we learned that the semi-annual meetings of the National Organic Standards Board would now take place...