How do you keep your ideals at the root
of the organic movement balanced with the challenges of running a packaged food company that competes with huge multi-national corporations?
But I can't help but worry when the educational wing of one of the leading institutions
of the organic movement presents itself, as it seems to in the video below, more as a preserver of traditions than as a cutting - edge organization tackling today's food challenges.
She feels that full traceability is the key to the future success
of the organic movement.
As for the direction
of the organic movement in England; Geetie is concerned about the European Union's loose definition of organic.
I grew up with a mother who was an early adopter
of the organic movement, in a home where «medication» really meant «remedies,» in the form of small white homeopathic balls that dissolved under your tongue.
Barriers to entry for third - party certification, including direct costs and paperwork, mean that many of the smallest and poorest farmers (those that have the most to gain by joining a system of committed organic production) can not participate, and this hurts the growth
of the organic movement as a whole.
Overall, the author's largely interview - based analysis takes a refreshingly nuanced and undogmatic view of a situation where a bifurcation could only lead to a weakening
of the organic movement.
Still, the preservation of native varieties and breeds is an important initiative
of the organic movement, but their actual use depends on individual farmers.
And I believe that the coffee industry — supplier of a globally ubiquitous product grown by millions of people around the world — has a very special and central role in the promotion and evolution
of the organic movement.
The early pioneers («Organic 1.0») paved the way for the formation
of the organic movement and the codification of standards and enforced rules that have established the organic sector and helped it grow to a market value of over US$ 80 billion per year («Organic 2.0»).
Rod's understated diplomacy allowed him to work with the idealists and pragmatists
of the organic movement.
As a creative and agile project initiator and implementer, IFOAM - Organics International works on behalf
of the organic movement to facilitate organic development.
There is also the Real Organic Project which has been set up by many of the original founders
of the organic movement in the US.
Like in the poultry industry, there is an active lobby to allow use of synthetic amino acids, although this is strongly opposed by most
of the organic movement.
The visionary pioneers
of the organic movement showed the holistic and healthy relationships between how we live, eat, and farm, our health and the health of the planet.
«Organic 3.0» is the third phase
of the organic movement — the next paradigm.
From the beginning, this French association has involved a number of stakeholders and pioneers
of the organic movement, including farmers, consumers, agronomists, technicians and even doctors.
Unprecedented wholesale and retail control of the organic marketplace by UNFI andWhole Foods, employing a business model of selling twice as much so - called «natural» food as certified organic food, coupled with the takeover of many organic companies by multinational food corporations such as Dean Foods, threatens the growth
of the organic movement.
When we moved to our current location in 1973, Bob Rodale envisioned a farm that would become the epicenter
of the organic movement.
Ideas that organic food could be healthier and better for the environment originated in the early days
of the organic movement as a result of publications like the 1943 book The Living Soil [14][15] and Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease (1945).
Not exact matches
Chiang Mai had a lot
of creative young people making contemporary art in a way that felt more
organic than the artisan - style «maker
movement» happening in Brooklyn, NY, and Portland, Ore..
Management believes that
organic growth is an important metric for measuring the operating performance
of our business as it helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects
of FX
movements.
Revenue growth and Adjusted EBITDA growth, on an
organic basis, are non-GAAP measures that exclude the impact
of FX
movements.
John Mackey, CEO
of Whole Foods, is arguably the individual most associated with today's
organic movement and the one most responsible for taking it mainstream.
Once the vanguard
of the natural and
organic food
movement, Whole Foods now faces competition from big - name grocers like Safeway and Costco that have started to offer similar
organic products at lower prices.
Gerecht in a sense speaks for all
of these voices in lamenting the passing
of an opportunity, forced by the army's and the protesters» impatience on one hand, and by Morsi's inability to restrain his
movement's worst instincts on the other, for this split to have happened (and with it,
organic development
of semi-moderate Islamism).
There is a code among many
of the
of the veterans
of this
movement that is about letting the work evolve out
of authentic,
organic friendships.
So a fundamental part
of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an
organic life system working within an ultimate framework
of a spiritual
movement of self - determining selves towards a community
of justice and love.
The reality
of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in with man's total
organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.
At any stage
of development, man as a person in community and also the community
of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing
movement or be victims
of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an
organic entity.
The process
of maturing involves a
movement from viewing situations as a collection
of equally relevant facts to seeing the world as an
organic whole in which only certain parts are relevant at a given moment.
This does not mean that consumer and producer co-operatives in their present form can serve that purpose, for the co-operative
movement has not developed in the direction
of an
organic alliance
of production and consumption in a comprehensive communal form or a true federation
of local societies.
It is therefore not wrong to interpret cosmos itself as a
movement from mechanical matter through
organic life to the spiritual human selfhood, and to interpret human history itself as the evolutionary or revolutionary enlargement
of the human selfhood and its spiritual self - determination and its social and cosmic responsibility.
This book grows out
of my experience teaching theology in a university divinity school that has no
organic relation to any Christian denomination, was historically associated with the Reformed, in contrast to Lutheran or Anabaptist, branch
of the Protestant
movement, and has now become thoroughly interconfessional in both student body and faculty.
Schools says, «The
organic structure
of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church is divided into four parts or
movements corresponding to the four fundamental aspects
of our life in Christ that we see in The Acts
of the Apostles.»
Perhaps the most important reality about the decade
of the «60s, during which Underwood did his writing, was the
organic populism
of «the
movement.»
In such situations, is it not a positive thing that
organic, spontaneous
movements of people rise swiftly to dole out discipline?
By «liberal theology» I mean the
movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into
organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the
movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations
of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.
Despite their identification in later times with the mechanistic model
of the universe, both Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton were indebted to the
organic movement.
That quickly kills any
organic movement of spiritual or intellectual growth.
In this context the large number
of net - works
of Social Action groups in India have a very important function in the discourse provided they have what Gramcie has called an «
organic» relation to such peoples»
movements.
Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any
organic connection with the
movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage
of some
of the less pleasant aspects
of the Italian underculture — the band
of thugs tied to their leader in bonds
of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:
Dr. Bronner's, a longtime member
of the
Organic Trade Association withdrew its membership earlier this week citing a «betrayal
of the consumer - led GMO labeling
movement, and general drift away from the core principles that drive the
organic movement.»
«We've been a strong advocate within the
organic movement for decades,» said Steve Eilertson, President
of Grain Millers.
Gary Hirshberg, the co-founder and chairman
of dairy company Stonyfield Farm and a highly influential figure in the
organic food
movement, shares war stories ranging from the company's pastoral beginnings, to its decade - long struggle for financing, and on to its eventual sale, mining them for wisdom that will resonate with any food and beverage professional.
The global
organic movement developed the concept
of Organic 3.0 that is summarized in this landmark document in a participatory process.
This historic agreement between the USDA and CFIA offers a new model for further expansion
of North American
organic products into the significant European and Asian markets, and the continued growth
of the global
organic movement.
Another bright note for
organic dairy producers is that a recent study
of U.S. consumer demand for milk shows that
organic milk demand is price elastic, and that the substitution pattern between
organic and conventional milk with differing fat content shows greater
movement toward
organic milk than back to conventional milk (Li, Peterson, and Xia, 2012).
Decades later, Hannigan and his family are on the cutting - edge
of the
organic produce
movement as they guide their company into a future that will realize significant changes when it comes to nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
The results show ecosystem responses relating to primary productivity,
movement of organic matter and habitat for fish and macroinvertebrates.