Gloating over what they consider a victory in the USDA’s new organic food standards, the anti-agribusiness nannies from the Organic Consumers Association are setting their sights higher. “The challenge over the next months and years will be to see if organic consumers, environmental organizations, farm activists, churches, and public interest groups can build upon this tactical victory and begin making headway in the bigger battle–driving genetically engineered crops off the market all over the world, beginning to phase-out the most dangerous practices of industrial agriculture, and jump-starting the conversion of the majority of the world’s agriculture to organic methods as soon as possible.”
