~ Food ~ Natural and Organic Food ~
In 1990, the U.S. Congress authorized the Department of Agriculture to establish legally enforceable "USDA Organic" standards and a certification scheme so that consumers could be confident that their food really had been produced organically.
That led, in 2002, to a set of standards that people in organic farming considered a reasonable compromise of what organic farming is all about.
Crops must be grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, and most synthetic pesticides and all herbicides are also banned.
Biological and botanical methods of control can be used and the food is still considered organic.
Soil fertility is maintained by the use of animal and plant waste (but not sewage sludge, which can contain toxic heavy metals), crop rotation, and growing "cover crops" like clover between other crops. Animals used for meat, eggs, or milk must eat organic grains or other organic food and must not be given growth hormones or antibiotics.
If sick or injured animals are treated with antibiotics, their meat, milk, or eggs cannot be sold as organic.
Organically raised animals must have access to the outdoors, including access to pasture for ruminants.
Neither plants nor animals can be the product of genetic engineering, and organic food cannot be irradiated.
This is a process that happens today that never happened 50 years ago. Times have changed but people are returning to the earlier days of raising plants and animals.
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