The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments challenging a district court ruling that authorized the USDA to continue certifying soil-less hydroponic operations as organic under the organic label.
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments challenging a district court ruling that authorized the USDA to continue certifying soil-less hydroponic operations as organic under the organic label.
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The legal fight against the USDA continues, this time in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The legal case against allowing hydroponics in organic — one of the real injustices in our industry — starts tomorrow with the public oral argument.
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The Real Organic Project’s Dave Chapman discusses why hydroponics is such an enormous problem for our industry and how large scale industrial producers are taking over the USDA organic label.
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Neal Laferriere, an organic farmer at Blackberry Botanicals in West Virginia, wants to know what his organic certifier is hiding and not being fully transparent?
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At the recent National Organic Standards Board meeting in Seattle, USDA officials faced serious pressure about the use of glyphosate in hydroponic operations.
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Calling food grown without soil-based nutrients “organic” amounts to fraud, say some organic farmers.
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The Real Organic Project has uncovered that some “organic” hydroponic operations are being built on land that has been doused with herbicides, including glyphosate — something that the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) is allowing.
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The USDA has been allowing hydroponics in organic — a complete violation of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. This morning, Center for Food Safety filed a legal petition with the USDA to stop this from happening. We will be covering this development in much more detail in next week’s Organic Insider.
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The Cornucopia Institute has just released a comprehensive report about how the allowance of hydroponics has diluted the organic seal. The organization also has come out with a hydroponics buyer’s guide, important for people who want to avoid organic hydroponic produce.
Read Article With the NOSB refusing to forbid hydroponics in organic, it appears that litigation may be imminent.
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