"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

[paleotn]

26. Bronxboy is correct....

the vast majority of organic product you see in chain grocery stores, as well as Whole "Paycheck", Earth Fare, etc., is corporatized organic food. It didn't take long for the food industry to figure out they could make incredible profits from organics. Name any organic brand, and chances are very high it's a subsidiary of General Mills, Cargill or some other multinational food monolith. Today, the industrial food producers control organic production to the point where THEY now decide what "organic" is and what it isn't.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/business/organic-food-purists-worry-about-big-companies-influence.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=acc73&pagewanted=all

All is not lost however. As Bronx wrote, real organic food at reasonable prices does exist at your local farmers markets or CSA. It may be a bit more than conventional produce from a chain store, but it's local, produced by someone you can meet and chat with and is far better for you and the environment.