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“The farmers of the West are repeating the mistakes made by Imperial Rome. Money, profit, the accumulation of capital and luxury, became the objects of landowning and not the great virtues of the soil and the farmers of few acres.” -Albert Howard Dear Real Organic friends, Flying home from visiting farms in California last week, ...

The Real Organic Podcast, Episode Seven Emily Oakley: Living Next to a CAFO while Serving on the NOSB   Welcome! You can subscribe and download episodes of our show through your favorite podcast app, including: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and many others. To find us, search “Real Organic Project” or copy and ...

Which Came First- The Organic Chicken Or The Organic CAFO? Which Came First- The Organic Chicken Or The Organic CAFO?That’s an easy one. The Organic Chicken came first. The Organic Chicken has been around for thousands of years, long before the word “Organic” was used. These chickens explored outside, hunted and pecked, scratched and rolled, and flapped their wings. They ...

Organic Farming’s Lawsuit Loss “How can this kind of soilless farming be called organic? Only by a lawyer or a lobbyist.” “What this week’s legal decision will mean to the good certifiers who refuse to certify hydroponic production as organic is unknown. Certainly, all of us will need to come together to protect them. If ...

Proposed OLPP Standards The end of organic poultry porches? Don’t hold your breath. The current proposed organic livestock & poultry practices rule demonstrates the power of chemical agriculture over the organic sector. Read on below for Linley’s take on the standards’ past and challenges for the future of Real Organic: If the Organic standards required ...

“Dear NOSB” “Big Ag creates a disconnection from the land and from the people doing the actual work on the land.” – Read Dave’s letter about his National Organic Standards Board testimony and reflection below. Hi Friend, I testified to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) a few weeks ago. In the short time that ...

The Real Organic Podcast, Episode #053Michael Pollan: Antitrust and Democracyat Your Dinner Table This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Welcome! You can subscribe and download episodes of our show through your favorite podcast app, including: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and many others. To find us, search “Real Organic Project” ...

“Gary Hirshberg and the Real Organic Project walk into a bar together…” Wed 6pm EST Session with Gary Hirshberg As it turns out, what happens next is not a joke. Tonight at 6 PM we will host a 40-minute bonus session for our Milk & Money symposium. We will post a portion of our interview ...

Farewell To Senator Leahy (See All Our Previous Letters Here) Patrick Leahy is someone who has served in Congress who represented people before power. He is ending his long Senate career. After 46 years of service to our country, his seniority makes him the President Pro Tempore of the US Senate. He has guided the ...

The most complex, radical technologies on earth: Truth Default Theory and Organic (See All Our Previous Letters Here) “Collectives do not emerge from the tops of institutions. They begin with one person and then another, the invisible social space where commitment and action join and come together to become a dyad, a group, a team, ...

Real Change: The Political Ecology of Food I had the privilege of giving a farm tour to a college class entitled “Political Ecology of Food.”  Prior to their visit, the student’s assignment was to watch the video on our homepage, “Why Real Organic Matters”. It’s a video that I have seen dozens of times, and somehow I’m still ...

Show Me A Movement “Show Me A Movement” Barak Obama talking to Dan Barber in 2009 on the possibility of reforming the food system. Dear Real Organic friends, To change the world, should we focus on changing the system or on changing what we buy? Do we best create change as activist citizens or as ...

Danone To The Rescue? “Danone is committed to growing food in a way that regenerates natural ecosystems and strengthens the well-being of farmers, livestock, local communities and consumers. Supply chain transparency is essential to accelerate the regenerative agriculture movement worldwide,” said Mickael Baud, Transparency & Traceability Transformation Program Director at Danone in 2021. Beautiful words. ...

“That is the fundamental cause of the problem. I can go down the list of every major problem we’re confronting and it’s because we give a priority to economic efficiency, “productivity”, profitability and we end up compromising our relationships with each other, our social values. We end up destroying the natural resources, degrading the soil, ...