'Organic' Food Makers Await Non-organic List

As the Department of Agriculture faces a public outcry over exemptions to its certified organic-labeled food program that would allow the use of dozens of non-organic ingredients, food makers have done one of two things. In some cases, miraculously, they've found organic supplies of the same ingredients that had been exempted, and in other cases, they've held off promoting their products as organic, or at all, until the USDA makes a decision. For organic purists, neither scenario seems too bad. On the one hand, increased demand for the organic version of common products ought to spur increased planting of those crops. On the other, products that aren't fully organic aren't labeled as if they were, according to a story in the June 14 Los Angeles Times. What do you think? Take The Daily Green poll. For more on this story: 'Organic' Isn't Always Organic The List of Non-organic 'Organic' Ingredients