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USDA's Organic Factory Farming Scandal Continues to Unravel

Submitted by dave on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 12:49pm

BASSETT, NEBRASKA - June 13 - What has been dubbed the "largest scandal in the history of the organic industry" has apparently taken another victim. The USDA announced this week that Promiseland Livestock, LLC, a 22,000-head cattle producer, had "willfully" violated the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, the law that federally regulates the industry.

Read the entire story here: http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0613-01.htm

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