
Consumers Trust Organic Labels, But Fraud Threatens The Industry
The organic industry is trying to battle fraud, given that it could undermine consumers’ trust and burst its burgeoning $43 billion food market.
The organic industry is trying to battle fraud, given that it could undermine consumers’ trust and burst its burgeoning $43 billion food market.
Alan Guebert has written a syndicated newspaper column about agriculture for about 20 years. Several of those columns have recounted what life was like on the “Southern Illinois dairy farm of his youth” – near St. Louis – and the beloved great uncle who came to “help.” At his daughter’s suggestion, the two of them have gathered those stories into a book, The Land of Milk And Uncle Honey.