Source: H. Claire Brown, THE COUNTER, 7/14/20


While they stop short of pesticide-sniffing beagles at the border, agents will now make surprise inspections on organic facilities. Last August, the perpetrator of the largest known organic fraud case in history was sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Farmer Randy Constant had sold more than $142 million of non-organic animal feed to unwitting livestock growers, who then fed it to their animals (which technically stopped being organic the second the non-organic grain touched their mouths), which were then slaughtered and eaten by people who had paid extra for organic meat.

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