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Mark Kastel

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Dec 10, 2017
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Op-Ed

It’s Time to Take Back the Organic Community

Citizens and farmers created organics as an alternative to industrial-scale agriculture and food production.
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Mark Kastel,
The Cornucopia Institute
May 9, 2014
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News

USDA Accused of Weakening Organic Standards – New Rules Accommodate Big Agribusiness

Sparks are predicted to fly when farmers and consumer activists in Texas face off with government regulators who they have accused of a “power grab.”
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Mark Kastel,
SpeakOut
April 30, 2014
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Politics & Elections

Update: Leahy/DeFazio Takes Vilsack to the Woodshed over Illegal USDA Organic Power Grab

Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Peter DeFazio sent a strongly worded letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack criticizing the recent power grab usurping power from the National Organic…
by
Mark Kastel,
Cornucopia Institute
April 29, 2014
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