Brands such as Applegate are concerned that
without organic livestock standards, companies are not being transparent with consumers and that it could lead to doubt in the value of the Organic seal.
Not exact matches
These are about as close as you can get to
organic dog bones
without raising your own
livestock!
The
livestock must also be raised
without hormones or antibiotics and fed an
organic diet.
In 2008, like all other conventional prices, the price for
organic feed for dairy cows and other
livestock shot up so quickly —
without milk processors and marketers paying farmers more to make up the gap — that for the first time in history, conventional dairy farmers were making more than
organic (conventional milk prices were at unprecedented highs)!
«If farming were to switch to
organic agriculture on the current amount of land that is being used for farming and
livestock production, then that system could produce enough calories to feed the world
without requiring people to change their dietary habits,» said study team member Catherine Badgley, a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan.