I am putting together a story about these proposed rules on definitions of organic for a community radio news program. Does anyone know where i can find more info? thanks. rebecca At 01:59 PM 4/29/98 -0500, you wrote: >U.S. organic farmers speak out on labeling rules > >Organic farmers who organized a wave of grassroots protest against proposed federal rules urged regulators Tuesday to uphold high standards for production of such food, not to weaken them. The Organic Trade Association joined 130,000 consumers, trade groups and agribusinesses in submitting formal comments to the Department of Agriculture about its proposed rules for labeling food "organic." The flood of public comments was a record for any USDA rulemaking and is scheduled to end Thursday. About two-thirds of the comments were form letters generated by the Organic Trade Association's grassroots campaign to oppose the use of irradiation, sewage sludge or genetically modified organisms in organic food. >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342 ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV> ><CENTER><A name=story66337:2><B><U>U.S. organic farmers speak out on labeling >rules</U></B></A></CENTER><BR>Organic farmers who organized a wave of grassroots >protest against proposed federal rules urged regulators Tuesday to uphold high >standards for production of such food, not to weaken them. The Organic Trade >Association joined 130,000 consumers, trade groups and agribusinesses in >submitting formal comments to the Department of Agriculture about its proposed >rules for labeling food "organic." The flood of public comments was a >record for any USDA rulemaking and is scheduled to end Thursday. About >two-thirds of the comments were form letters generated by the Organic Trade >Association's grassroots campaign to oppose the use of irradiation, sewage >sludge or genetically modified organisms in organic food<FONT color=#000000 >face="Times New Roman">.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman"><A >href="http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342">http ://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342</A></FONT></DIV> </BODY></HTML> > Take the wheel of the world and drive.
