US ORGANIC INDUSTRY SUPPORTS FOOD IMPORTS FROM FUKUSHIMA-CONTAMINATED JAPAN

And you thought the organic industry was your friend!

USDA - United States Department of Agriculture news release:

 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013–Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the United States and Japan formed a partnership that will recognize the two organic programs as equivalent and allow access to each other's markets.

 

The equivalency arrangement was signed by Anne L. Alonzo, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator; Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, U.S. Trade Representative Chief Agricultural Negotiator; and Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Director General, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau.

 

Representatives from the U.S. organic industry—including trade associations and organic producers—praised the U.S.-Japan partnership.

 

"This monumental agreement will further create jobs in the already growing U.S. organic sector, spark additional market growth, and be mutually beneficial to producers both in the United States and Japan and to consumers who choose organic products,"

Read more - http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/bulletins/8cbfc5

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In other words, as long as US organic growers see $$$$$$$$$$$ in an expanding market, they disregard the fact that Japanese agricultural products - organic or not - could be heavily contaminated by increasing radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

 

Read the latest from the Fukushima  disaster, now spreading nuclear contamination through North America and the world.

http://enenews.com/category/location/japan

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