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Grow more organics
The Environmental Working Group wants the feds to encourage farmers to grow organic
By Caroline Cummins
June 12, 2007
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., has been filling its website lately with info about the Farm Bill. Now they’ve added a petition urging Congress, in its rewriting of the Farm Bill, to encourage farmers to grow more organic food.
“Are you satisfied with having just 3 percent of the fruit you eat free of potentially dangerous pesticides? How about 2 percent of vegetables? Or less than 0.02 percent of corn?” asks the EWG. “Right now, those are the percentages of organic produce available in grocery stores.”
Petition signers, the EWG adds, will be asking Congress to do the following:
- Improve your family’s access to safe food that is free of harmful pesticides and hormones.
- Help more farmers make the transition to organic farming.
- Level the playing field for the organic industry by devoting a fair share of resources to organic pest control and crop nourishment.
Want to see more organics available at your local grocery store? Sign the petition today.
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1. by anonymous on Jun 12, 2007 at 5:53 PM PDT
The farm bill is a huge mess of favors for special interests, mostly big corporate farms. It doesn’t need improving, it needs abolishing. What we need is food-freedom, putting consumers back in the driver’s seat.
Plus this would be a huge boon for third-world farmers, who are kept in poverty by western farm subsidies.
2. by Claudia on Jun 22, 2007 at 7:10 AM PDT
The Environmental Working Group is making great strides in the right direction, and the efforts of consumers and grassroots organizations can help the movement for more organics. A great resource to finding sustainable food sources is the Eat Well guide (www.eatwellguide.org), a project of the Sustainable Table. It’s a free online directory of sustainable food outlets, from restaurants and stores to bed & breakfasts. Check it out! www.eatwellguide.org
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