Industrial Organic

Industrial and organic are two terms that don’t seem mesh at first. The term “organic agriculture” often conjures up images of small picturesque family farms. While this pastoral scene might be true for locally produced organic foods, large scale organic production is a different story. Click here to see photographs of a large organic dairy (from the Cornucopia Institute).

If the food isn’t produced and sold locally then where are the profits going? Some very interesting research has been done at Michigan State University by Dr. Philip H. Howard. Take a look at this website which provides a series of diagrams that show who owns the major organic brands.