Open Letter to Whole Foods Market from the Organic Consumers Association
Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, writes…
Organic food and farming is the only way to drastically reduce fossil fuel use, slash climate-destabilizing greenhouse gas pollution, sequester enormous amounts of carbon in the soil, produce adequate crops under unpredictable weather conditions, preserve small farms, and improve public health. We can no longer tolerate a business model on the part of organic retail market leaders, such as Whole Foods … which amounts to selling 2/3 conventional foods and products (greenwashed as “natural”) and only 1/3 certified organic. There is no such thing as a “natural” chemical fertilizer, a natural toxic pesticide such as Monsanto’s Roundup or Syngenta’s Atrazine … or a natural genetically modified organism. Your “bait and switch” greenwashing of conventional products, disguised as natural or almost organic, is morally bankrupt
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