Monday, October 09, 2006
The woes of organic food
Apparently what works well for an audience the size of Vermont doesn't work so well when the whole country wants a piece.
Me thinks it's still better for you. But we'll see.
As food companies scramble to find enough organically grown ingredients, they are inevitably forsaking the pastoral ethos that has defined the organic lifestyle. For some companies, it means keeping thousands of organic cows on industrial-scale feedlots. For others, the scarcity of organic ingredients means looking as far afield as China, Sierra Leone, and Brazil -- places where standards may be hard to enforce, workers' wages and living conditions are a worry, and, say critics, increased farmland sometimes comes at a cost to the environment.
Me thinks it's still better for you. But we'll see.
