Episode 79: Can We Trust Organic Labels?
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Episode 79: Can We Trust Organic Labels?
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To understand where we are today with organic food, you have to understand where the movement came from and what it was responding to. The organic farming movement in the United States did not emerge from marketing departments. It emerged from genuine and scientifically grounded concerns about the industrialization of agriculture that accelerated dramatically following World War Two. The development of synthetic pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers — many of them derived from technologies originally developed for warfare — transformed American agriculture in the nineteen forties, nineteen fifties, and nineteen sixties in ways that were economically revolutionary and ecologically consequential.
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