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Wal-Mart Accused of Faking its Organic Food Products |
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Contributed by Jim Elliott
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 |
When Wal-Mart jumped into the field of selling organic products at its many food stores, there was mixed feelings. Some saw this as a plus because their economic pull in the market would increase demand and stabilize higher prices. It would also add locations for access.
Others were more skeptical. Would the organic farmers and ranchers have to conform to the terms of the big player in the field? Would their definition of organic be the same as the interest of environmentalists and healthy food advocates?
The Cornucopia Institute of Wisconsin, an organic farming watchdog, was sceptical and began to monitor what was going on in Wal-Mart stores. In Plano, Texas, they found misrepresentation in an up-scaled market store. More violations followed in more stores.
In September, they wrote a letter to Wal-Mart's CEO, Lee Scott, notifying him of the problems that they were finding and asked him to fix it immediately. When the same mislabeling of non-organic food as organic continued through October in a number of states, the gloves came off.
In October, the Cornucopia Institute filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture accusing Wal-Mart of selling non-organic food products as organic. For more information and a copy of the letter, see www.cornucopia.org.
Whether this is happening in Canada, one can only speculate. Where does our food come from? When there were food recalls for contamination, where did they come from? How many national and international chains separately source their products?
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