OCA's Campaign Success: Organic Certification Yanked from "Organic" Dairy Factory Farm

[nosmokes]

It took a few years but SaveOorganicStandards has another tally mark in the left hand column against big ag in the dairy dept. this is a big win! now maybe, just maybe, people in the industry might start to realise that organic is more than a label they can slap on their product and charge an extra 30%.
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OCA's SOS Campaign Success: Organic Certification Yanked from "Organic" Dairy Factory Farm

* Certification yanked at big organic dairy*
By Samuel Fromartz
Sustainable Food News(subscription only), 6/6/2007
Straight to the Source

In a sign that pressure is mounting on big confinement organic dairy farms, Quality Assurance International, a major organic certification agency, has yanked certification for the Case Vander Eyk organic dairy in California, an operation with an estimated 3,500 cows.

This dairy in the central valley of California has been the subject of complaints by the advocacy group, Cornucopia Institute. But QAI's decision marks the first time a certifier has suspended a big confinement dairy, though these farms have been criticized for years.

"The process took quite a long time," one source with direct knowledge of the situation said, because of the review requirements under the USDA's National Organic Program.

Once certification is suspended, as it was in this case in mid-May, the operation can no longer sell its products as organic. It can, however, appeal the certifier's decision to the NOP, which then reviews the details of the case.

One source said the farm didn't comply with organic regulations in a number of areas, including pasture.

The Vander Eyk dairy was among several large-scale farms that became lightening rods in the organic industry over the past several years as the organic dairy market expanded at 20-30 percent a year.
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complete article here

[glowing]

1. Personally, I wish they would allow real milk to be sold again...

the kind that came to your doorstep every morning... Being from Vermont and having had real cows milk from my uncle's dairy farm, the shit they call milk in the store is an abomination.

[nam78_two]

2. K&R.nt

[bananas]

3. k&r nt

[Morgana LaFey]

4. This is great. What a crock we have to have citizens to look after

such things. What a crock we can't rely on our government to even nominally do what it's supposed to do.

[hankthecrank]

5. K&R

link to Cornucopia Institute http://www.cornucopia.org/

[farmboxer]

6. Kevin Trudeau was right

Kevin Trudeau is correct. Yes, I miss raw milk also.