“Frankly, I feel that some people have worked 30-40 years promoting organic, educating people about it, being on the ground and developing not only a business around it but a sense of awareness and consciousness about it. “To have it stolen by big corporations - having regulations that don’t respect the goal of what organic is, for me it’s very shameful and I feel very disturbed by it.” JM Fortier La Ferme des Quatre Temps
“When the Real Organic Project began, we wholeheartedly endorsed it because we have seen a dilution in organic principles.”
Arran Stephens Co-founder, Nature’s Path
Emily Oakley Three Springs Farm
“It's not a question of can, or if, the Real Organic Project will succeed… We already ARE succeeding because farmers want it and they will bring their customers along with them.”
“When organic can actually mean, you know, these huge mega corporations that are draining aquifers, exploiting workers, and torturing animals, then that word doesn’t actually have meaning anymore. And so to reclaim language and infuse it with our deep sense of truth and our ethical compass is crucial.”
Leah Penniman Soul Fire Farm
“A handful of companies are feeding us, and they’re doing it in a way that is brutal to workers, brutal to animals, and they’re hiding from us how our food is produced as best they can...You have to tell a story that organic has been undermined, yet can still be saved."
“Perhaps if we don’t start talking about it and get together on how to save the core values of what organic is, and was at the beginning, we’ll probably lose it. If you look the other way, things change. So you have to be very vigilant and see what’s going on out there. It’s slipping out of our hands.” Javier Zamora JSM Organics
Michael Pollan Author of Ominvore’s Dilemma
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