Synthetic Chemicals and Ingredients May Soon Be Considered Organic by the USDA

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The future of organic food could be negatively affected by the next USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in Savannah, Georgia. At this meeting, certain conventional food companies are planning to lobby the USDA into passing laws to reduce the regulations on organic food or create more loopholes in the regulations. If they succeed, they may be able to get the USDA to approve the use of synthetic chemicals and unnatural ingredients in organic food. If the USDA allows this, it will endanger the integrity of organic food in the U.S.

As described at cornucopia.org.

The organic label was founded on the idea that food should be produced in concert with nature, without dangerous chemicals and synthetic ingredients. Another organic value: animals should be raised on real farms that treat them with respect, not exploited on “factory farms.”

Since the government began regulating the organic label, corporate agribusinesses and their lobbyists have been doing everything in their power to co-opt the values the organic movement was founded upon while taking a larger slice of the profit pie.

At their upcoming meeting, the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has the opportunity to close loopholes and strengthen the regulations, but a handful of corporate sector Board members are attempting to do the exact opposite: watering down the standards.

If conventional food companies are allowed to add synthetic ingredients to organic foods, they may be allowed to add genetically modified ingredients (GM ingredients) to organic foods too. These standards will destroy the organic food industry, making it harder for consumers to find organic foods that are truly free of harmful chemicals. When it comes to health, organic foods outperform conventional foods by far. The main reasons are because organic foods are mostly free of synthetic chemicals and the USDA currently does not allow organic foods to be contaminated with genetically modified foods (GM foods). Independents studies have shown that GM foods can cause serious health problems.

As stated at nature-heals.com.

GM foods are particularly dangerous for pregnant moms and children. After GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died–compared to 10 percent deaths among controls fed natural soy. GM-fed babies were smaller, and possibly infertile.

Testicles of rats fed GM soy changed from the normal pink to dark blue. Mice fed GM soy also had altered young sperm.

Embryos of GM soy-fed parent mice had changed DNA. And mice fed GM corn had fewer, and smaller, babies.

In Haryana, India, most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, and infertility; many calves died.

About two dozen US farmers said thousands of pigs became sterile from certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became infertile.

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