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Wal-Mart is Helping to Degrade Organic Food Standards

Ever since Wal-Mart decided to significantly increase its organic offerings, they have been bombarded with accusations of selling substandard organic food, produced at factory farms, not small, organic farms like consumers are led to believe.

The accusations, it turns out, are well-founded, as I suspected from the beginning. Now the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is calling on consumers to boycott Wal-Mart for degrading the organic standards. According to OCA, despite their requests to Wal-Mart to stop, the mega-store chain is:

  • Selling Horizon and Aurora Organic milk that comes from intensive confinement factory farm dairies
  • Importing cheap organic foods and ingredients from China and Brazil
  • Posting signs in its stores that mislead consumers into believing that non-organic items are actually organic

As always, your best source of food will be from local farmers, not huge superstores, but you can also use some commonsense no matter where you shop by remembering that processed food is still junk food, even if it’s labeled “organic.”

Organic Consumers Association January 17, 2007




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BY Kentucky Woman   
  
[ Joined on 08/06 ]
[ Posted on February 14, 2007 ]
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It's obvious to me that NOTHING sold at Wal-mart can truly be organic.  I can't eat any of their foods on the produce stand or in permeable packaging because it is so contaminated with fragrance chemicals.  Everything  we buy there reeks of per"fumes".  Sadly, this includes their foods - and their organics are just as fragrance-contaminated as the rest of their edibles.

I don't even buy clothes there anymore because it's almost impossible to get that stink out of the clothing.  So just imagine what it's doing to their edibles.
 

            
 
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BY tyciol   
  
[ Joined on 10/06 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on February 26, 2007 ]
 
Using terms like 'impossible' is ridiculous.

 
            
 
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BY Anne W   
  
[ Joined on 02/07 ]
[ Posted on February 13, 2007 ]
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An excellent book to read on the entire industrial organic complex is The Omnivore's Dilemma.  It was published just this last year, I believe and I was amazed at the so called organic companies such as Earth Bound Farms which are owned by large commercial food organizations such as General Mills.  Lucky Charms, anyone??

 
            
 
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BY TinaK   
  
[ Joined on 11/06 ]
[ Posted on February 06, 2007 ]
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I have been trying to find raw milk. I never lived within a reasonable distance but there is a place in Lecanto Fl called Golden fleece farms that sells it. It's over an hour away but apparently raw milk can be sold at retail if it's labeled "pet food only." My regular natural foods store has it. I'm too far from Whole Foods too.  best pet food I ever drank! of course as pet food, it's not going to be labeled kosher but I asked my rabbi about it and he told me although he wouldn't drink it,(he's Lubavitch), the deal with milk is adulteration, like pig's milk,  and that's not a problem in this country.  I doubt a guy committed to small farming and reclaiming the earth for a natural diet is going to mix cow's milk with anything unacceptable especially if he wants to get raw milk legalized. BTW in NJ it was legal in my lifetime. Walker Gordon div. of Borden's was not pasteurized and doctors found it better for babies who could not be nursed and did not tolerate pasteurized milk. don't remember why the State closed it down.  reminds me of medical marijuana and how it suddenly became illegal. but that's another post :-)

 
            
 
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BY SWALE   
  
[ Joined on 01/07 ]
[ Posted on February 06, 2007 ]
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Do you think there is any connection between these consumer groups--who are overwhelmingly Liberal, union-loving Democrats--and the ridiculous smear campaigns going on against Walmart? Does anyone have any idea how much union money flows to these groups? These attacks are being funded by the unions who demand Walmart employees join them, even though they repeatedly have shown they do not want to.
 
In my own town, all the employees of our neighborhood grocery store lost their jobs when a union forced the store out of business through the sleaziest door-to-door smear campaign one could imagine. The employees repeatedly voted to NOT unionize, as the owner/management of the store already treated them so well. Did the union care about this? Well, the union's threat to put them out of business became a reality. They sure showed them!

Maybe someone should do a little expose on THAT! Do we TRULY care about truth?

 
            
 
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BY Laserman   
  
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