Source:WUNC, 11/16/16

The National Organic Standards Board plans to decide this week whether hydroponically grown foods, a water-based model of cultivation, can be sold under the label “certified organic.” But some organic farmers and advocates are saying no — the organic label should be rooted in soil. The decision at stake for the $40 billion-a-year industry will have impacts that reach from small farms to global corporations. Farmer Eliot Coleman is among those who oppose giving hydroponic produce the organic label.

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