Aurora Organic Dairy is a huge dairy farm in Colorado that produces both conventional and organic milk.  After complaints by the Cornucopia Institute and others, the USDA hasfound Aurora cannot prove its milk is really organic.  Andrew Martin of the NY Times reports on this story.  Aurora has to change its practices.  But it gained big market share, in the meantime, from small organic farmers.

USDA can't keep track of what is organic and what is not in America.  But the agency allows China to certify organic food too.  We really ought to look more into foreign organic.  There must be about a 5% chance that they are really organic.

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