{"id":418,"date":"2011-02-13T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-09-27T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T01:54:25","slug":"the-usdas-organic-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"The USDA\u2019s Organic Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprint from \u00a0Farm Wars.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Barbara H. Peterson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Organic is organic, or is it? It would seem that it is all a matter of perspective when one takes a stroll through the mountains of documents on the FDA and USDA websites.<\/p>\n


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The word \u201corganic\u201d is fast becoming a high-dollar money-maker for corporations smart enough to jump on the bandwagon and start marketing their products as \u201cmade with organic ingredients,\u201d or \u201ccertified organic.\u201d Even Monsanto is taking advantage of this burgeoning market, and people na\u00efve enough to believe that what we have traditionally thought of as pure, organic food, is still that way, are being duped.<\/p>\n


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It makes perfect sense, however, in a Machiavellian sort of way. Flood the food supply with poisons, then lead people to believe that the only safe choice left is USDA Certified Organic. Then buy up the organic companies one by one, and start changing the \u201corganic\u201d rules from the inside out via the bought and paid for government agencies so that you can reap the profits from those trying to escape the poisons.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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So let\u2019s take a closer look at just what the word \u201corganic\u201d refers to according to these government agencies. You might be surprised at what we find. The fact that the very agencies (FDA and USDA), which are supposed to be protecting our organic food supply, are intensely active in its adulteration will become apparent.<\/p>\n


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What is \u201cCertified Organic?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n


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In the USDA Certified Organic Program, there are four categories established for labeling purposes:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Section 205.301 establishes the organic content requirements for different labeling provisions specified under this program. The type of labeling and market information that can be used and its placement on different panels of consumer packages and in market information is based on the percentage of organic ingredients in the product. The percentage must reflect the actual weight or fluid volume (excluding water and salt) of the organic ingredients in the product. Four categories of organic content are established: 100 percent organic; 95 percent or more organic; 70 to 95 percent organic; and less than 70 percent organic. (Organic Labeling Preamble<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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If an item is labeled 100% Organic, then it is supposed to contain nothing but organic ingredients and processing aids that are organically produced.<\/p>\n


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Products labeled Certified Organic must contain 95% organic ingredients.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Up to 5 percent of the ingredients may be nonagricultural substances (consistent with the National List<\/a>) and, if not commercially available in organic form pursuant to section 205.201, nonorganic agricultural products and ingredients in minor amounts (hereinafter referred to as minor ingredients) (spices, flavors, colorings, oils, vitamins, minerals, accessory nutrients, incidental food additives). The nonorganic ingredients must not be produced using excluded methods [GMO], sewage sludge, or ionizing radiation. (Organic Labeling Preamble<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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70-95% Organic, labeled \u201cMade with Organic Ingredients,\u201d can contain the kitchen sink in the 5-30% of ingredients that are not organic. They can be grown with pesticides, but without the sewage sludge, and cannot be irradiated or genetically modified organisms (GMO).<\/p>\n


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70% Organic, which is labeled \u201cContains Organic Ingredients,\u201d can contain the kitchen sink along with the pesticides, sewage sludge, irradiation, and GMOs.<\/p>\n


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A Matter of Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Let\u2019s say that you have a product that you think is better than its conventional counterpart because it has \u201ccertified organic\u201d ingredients. So you buy it and think that you are getting healthier because you are eating mostly good, pure food. It is the word \u201corganic\u201d that led you to believe this. However, if an organic ingredient is mixed with conventional ingredients, doesn\u2019t it become polluted? It\u2019s like putting gasoline in a glass of pure water and charging a premium for that water because it only contains 30% of the contaminant. 30% contamination is probably better than 100%, but would you want to drink it? The whole glass of water is poisoned due to the gasoline, yet the companies selling this product would like you to believe that because it contains pure water it is good. They also know that they can charge you premium prices for that flawed perception.<\/p>\n


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The FDA and USDA would like us to believe that using \u201ccertified organic ingredients\u201d somehow makes the poisons they allow in the other 30% okay, and companies charge through the nose for these adulterated products. It is a matter of perspective. Just how much gasoline in your water are you willing to tolerate just so you can live under the illusion that you are consuming a more pure product? And just how high a price are you willing to pay for it?<\/p>\n


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\u201cUSDA Certified Organic\u201d is a big business, and the deception is great. With a bit of sleight of hand, by simply moving a word around a bit, you have a complete subterfuge.<\/p>\n

\u00a0(1) Use of \u201cOrganic\u201d in Product Names. The NOSB, State organic program (SOP) managers, certifying agents, and a large number of individual commenters strongly recommended that USDA prohibit use of the term, \u201corganic,\u201d to modify an ingredient in a product name if the ingredient, itself, is not produced organically. The examples offered were \u201corganic chocolate ice cream\u201d and \u201corganic cherry sweets\u201d in which the ice cream and candy are at least 95 percent organic but the chocolate and cherry flavoring is not organically produced. We agree with commenters that such product names can be misleading and would be a violation of section 205.300(a). In the examples, the word, \u201corganic,\u201d precedes the words, \u201cchocolate\u201d and \u201ccherry,\u201d and clearly implies that those ingredients are organically produced. The chocolate and cherry flavorings must be organically produced to be used in this way. If the product is at least 95 percent organically produced but the flavoring is nonorganic, the word sequence must be reversed or the word, \u201cflavored,\u201d must be added to the name; e.g., \u201cchocolate organic ice cream\u201d or \u201cchocolate flavored organic ice cream.\u201d A sentence has been added to section 205.300(a) to specify that the term, \u201corganic,\u201d may not be used in a product name to identify an ingredient that is not organically produced. (Organic Labeling Preamble<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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So, you see how \u201corganic chocolate ice cream\u201d means that both the chocolate and the ice cream are organic, but if you reverse two words and make it \u201cchocolate organic ice cream,\u201d the chocolate is not organic. Or if you are really adept at manipulation, you can actually manufacture \u201corganic beer<\/a>\u201d with conventional hops, label it \u201cUSDA Certified Organic,\u201d and charge a premium price for it. See the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances<\/a>, which includes hops as one of the approved non-organic substances allowed in USDA Certified Organic products.<\/p>\n


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If the FDA is here to help us instead of make money for its corporate owners, don\u2019t you think this agency would demand that labeling be perfectly clear? If the USDA is here to help us, why would it have allowed the gross pollution and treachery that abounds in the National Organics Program (NOP) to have even gotten a foothold in what was the last bastion of safety left in our food supply?<\/p>\n


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ORGANIC IS ORGANIC. When it is mixed with non-organic ingredients, it is no longer organic, and no amount of agency double-talk will change that. When you play word games to trick people into purchasing something because they see the word \u201corganic\u201d on the label because you have led them to believe it is safe and better than the rest, all in the name of corporate profits, then organic or not, you are one of the bad guys. Period.<\/p>\n


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Neotame can be included in USDA Certified \u201cContains Organic Ingredients\u201d without labeling. As I stated in a previous article \u201cUSDA Certified Organic\u2019s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame<\/a>,\u201d Neotame does not have to be labeled. Period. Why? Because the FDA approved it as a general purpose sweetener, and it is designated as a \u201cflavor, or flavor enhancer.\u201d And since it is not a protein hydrolysate<\/a>, the following applies:<\/p>\n

\u00a0If the flavor consists of two or more ingredients, the label either may declare each ingredient by its common or usual name or may state \u201cAll flavor ingredients contained in this product are approved for use in a regulation of the Food and Drug Administration.\u201d Any flavor ingredient not contained in one of these regulations, and any nonflavor ingredient, shall be separately listed on the label. (FDA<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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A document taken from the FDA site<\/a> even states that pre-approval studies indicated that Neotame is not safe, yet it \u201cwas approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for general use in July 2002\u201d (Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n


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Enter Sweetos<\/a>. Sweetos is Neotame. It was created for human and animal use<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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EnSigns Health Care Pvt Ltd and The NutraSweet Co USA have recently launched \u2018Sweetos\u2019, a cattle feed sweetener. Sweetos has been developed with neotame, a high intensity sweetener.<\/p>\n


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Amino acids based sweetener Neotame is 8,000 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar and is a patented product of the NutraSweet Co USA. Ensigns is one of the leading manufacturers of Sweetos, low calorie sweeteners for the food industry. Together the two companies have launched this sweetener to be added to cattle feed. (Business Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n


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Organic livestock feed uses a similar type of labeling system as human food.<\/p>\n

\u00a0(c) Products sold, labeled, or represented as \u201cmade with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s)).\u201d Multiingredient agricultural product sold, labeled, or represented as \u201cmade with organic (specified ingredients or food group(s))\u201d must contain (by weight or fluid volume, excluding water and salt) at least 70 percent organically produced ingredients which are produced and handled pursuant to requirements in subpart C of this part. No ingredients may be produced using prohibited practices specified in paragraphs (f)(1), (2), and (3) of \u00a7205.301. Nonorganic ingredients may be produced without regard to paragraphs (f)(4), (5), (6), and (7) of \u00a7205.301. If labeled as containing organically produced ingredients or food groups, such product must be labeled pursuant to \u00a7205.304. (d) Products with less than 70 percent organically produced ingredients. The organic ingredients in multiingredient agricultural product containing less than 70 percent organically produced ingredients (by weight or fluid volume, excluding water and salt) must be produced and handled pursuant to requirements in subpart C of this part. The nonorganic ingredients may be produced and handled without regard to the requirements of this part. Multiingredient agricultural product containing less than 70 percent organically produced ingredients may represent the organic nature of the product only as provided in \u00a7205.305. (GPO Access<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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As in human food regulations, the non-organic ingredients in \u201cMade with Organic Ingredients\u201d and \u201cContains Organic Ingredients\u201d can contain the kitchen sink.<\/p>\n


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The question must be asked: Do we really want our cattle to be consuming feed that is made with a neurotoxin<\/a>? How will it affect the animals that eat it? And just how will eating these animals affect us?<\/p>\n


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Endless Compromise<\/strong><\/p>\n


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When did we learn to accept anything less than the best? When did we acquiesce to inferiority? To the endless compromise of our food supply? Why do we think that we somehow deserve to be robbed blind, lied to, poisoned for profit, and cheated every step of the way by the corrupt corporate system that acts like a black hole \u2013 sucking in everything and giving nothing back in return except abject misery? And why do we seem to like it? Why do we keep going back for more instead of ridding ourselves of these pariahs? Do you really want to know why? Because we have been trained that way! That\u2019s why we accept \u201corganic beer\u201d made with conventional hops, and USDA Certified \u201ccontains organic ingredients\u201d food items that have been poisoned with the likes of Neotame. We accept these things because we have been conditioned to think that this is somehow okay. It\u2019s time to change our way of thinking.<\/p>\n


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It\u2019s time to stop bowing to multi-national corporations who may or may not be what we think they are. Know your food producer. Know what you are eating. Become a food warrior, and fight for the right to not be deceived. Know how to read labels and figure out what the ingredients really are. The more people that wake up to the reality that we are surrounded by people who couldn\u2019t care less about our health and are actually out to do us harm as long as they can profit by it, the better our chances of survival. Make no mistake about it. We are in a food war, and that is a war for our very lives.<\/p>\n


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