The global organic food market has increased rapidly in recent years and is expected to grow from $244.82 billion in 2023 to $279.19 billion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 14% expected according to The Business Research Company. The industry’s remarkable growth has come with additional challenges in [...]
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Fake “Organic” Food From China is FLOODING Store Shelves. Here’s What You Need to Know
Multiple recent reports exposed conventional foods manufactured in China as fake and even toxic: scams involving rice that contains plastic, fake eggs made from chemicals and many food items containing high levels of arsenic. Now that country-of-origin labeling has been removed by Congress (for meat anyway), and companies are struggling to find [...]
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Watchdog Group Alleges Organic Fraud by the USDA, Demands Change
The Cornucopia Institute, a public interest organization and watchdog group for organic food and agriculture, has officially released a call-to-action report about fraudulent activity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its organic standards program. The presented materials call into serious question their commitment to protecting the integrity [...]
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