Is BIG Organic the Enemy?

Consumers and activists alike tend to be nervous about big corporations taking over organic brands. How can we make organics available to a larger audience at cheaper prices while maintaining the standards on which organics were founded?

These are questions we brought to Ken Cook, the President of Environmental Working Group (EWG) during our visit to Organic Valley's Kickapoo Country Fair.

Special thanks to Ken Cook and the staff at Organic Valley for all their help and support!

Video produced by Dorothee Royal-Hedinger and Mark Andrew Boyer.

For more info about EWG's awesome work visit: http://www.ewg.org/

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[FathomlessJoy]

@NiceGuyCody "organic zealots idolize are as far from "sustainable" as it gets" Actually, the 60% of the crops, 50% of the fresh water, 20% of the world's carbon emissions from the livestock industry are pretty unsustainable, right? With all the carcasses dumped in the Earth's waterways, the feces and urine dumped into our land and water, the destruction of forests at hundreds of acres per second around the clock, set to double in 20 years...that's all pretty unsustainable, isn't it?

[FathomlessJoy]

@NiceGuyCody You're right to a degree. It's pop culture to buy organic (or "free range" or "grass fed") animal flesh at twice the price thinking that you are eating anything other than rotting flesh. However, I do think you use some stereotypes that are unproductive, perhaps. Simply because someone does not see truth in scientists' claims that they can grow better veggies and fuits to eat than mother nature grows, does not mean they hate science - or are a hippy, or hipster, or whatever. Right?

[NiceGuyCody]

@Veggieforce

"allow big organic to slander the interpretations of the word "organic" and "sustainable" would be taking the nation in the opposite direction."

Except that ANY carbon-based foodstuff is "organic" and the farming methods which the organic zealots idolize are as far from "sustainable" as it gets.

This is what happens when you let hippies, Marxist scumbags and Animal Rights cultists wage war on science.

[NiceGuyCody]

Any "organic" is "Big Organic". Greedy folks selling less food for more money to gullible hippies and hipsters on the basis of propaganda and an unshakable hatred of science.

[vikingvic]

@Veggieforce yeah.. gmo and many pesticides needs to be banned... but the eugenics and their friends really dont want this it seems. and things are going the opposite way. all about more profit, higher growth, year after year.. nothing sustainable. nothing healthy.

[Veggieforce]

big business is ruining the organic movement in this country and the world. to allow big organic to slander the interpretations of the word "organic" and "sustainable" would be taking the nation in the opposite direction. that is greenwashing plain and simple. that guy needs to wise up and get his head out of the clouds. hes not creating a movement, hes supporting business as usual.

[BasicHerb]

It is a problem in Sweden. People want good food but it is too expensive. Going in to politics soon and we will see what I can do for our small town. Many years ago, the town had a small garden and lots of people in town cared for that garden. I will try to wake up this project again.

[BigHeadFarm]

great vid as always - keep up the fight!