Caught Red-Handed: Organic Certifiers Freaking Out <~ Organic Eye

Posted on February 28, 2024 by michael burgwin

by Mark Kastel | Feb 26, 2024 |  READ

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” 


This year is the 20th anniversary of OrganicEye’s founder and executive director, Mark Kastel’s, career shift to doing corporate and governmental watchdog work in defense of the organic movement. 

He and his team’s most recent investigation spotlights the organic certification system, with particular focus on certifiers granting USDA organic certification to industrial-scale livestock operations (also known as CAFOs) and hydroponic (soilless) growing facilities — practices that sidestep organic standards and economically disadvantage family-scale farmers. The first subject of OrganicEye’s scrutiny was California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), which led to the filing of a formal legal complaint against the certifier and a request that the USDA Office of Inspector General investigate the National Organic Program. 

OrganicEye’s response to posts made by CCOF’s CEO, attorney Kelly Damewood, can be found below. But first, a brief recap.

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About michael burgwin

A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.
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