Buying locally produced products is a benefit to the environment, right? Look at all the fuel and pollution saved by buying your vegetables from a local grower instead of being shipped in from Mexico. This idea is the lynchpin in the strategy put forward by some conventional (non-organic) growers in their efforts to promote consumers […]
Recent statistics show that sales of organic products continue to rise, however what is surprising is that sales of products labeled as “Natural” rose even higher. Initially this puzzled me; why would consumers embrace inferior “Natural” products compared to Certified Organic ones? I soon realized that products labeled as “Natural” creates the image that the […]
At a recent local food conference in Baltimore, I was surprised to learn how incredibly popular the local food movement was. However, I found out that much of that popularity was due to the belief that if the food was local, it was organic. Surprisingly, many farmers blurred the lines between organic and local to […]