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	Organic movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organic movement broadly refers to the organizations and individuals involved worldwide in the promotion of sustainable agriculture and organic farming, and a general opposition to agribusiness.
		In the 1970s, worldwide movements concerned with the pollution and the environment increased attention on organic farming.
		As the distinction between organic and conventional food became clear, one goal of the organic movement was to encourage consumption of locally grown food, which was promoted through slogans such as "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organic_movement (538 words)

	Learn more about Organic farming in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organic farming is an agricultural approach that avoids the use of synthetic chemicals and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and follows the principles of sustainable agriculture.
		Furthermore, some organic farming practices are claimed to do more damage than conventional practices – for instance, the practice of ploughing (see tillage) to prepare soil for planting is claimed to increase soil damage compared to using Roundup, a herbicide.
		This is a de facto movement of "chemical" fertilizer from non-organic farms to organic farms.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/or/organic_farming.html (1423 words)

	Organic movement: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organic farming is a way of farming that avoids the use of synthetic chemicals as well as genetically modified organisms (gmos), and usually subscribes to the principles...
		Lady eve balfour (evelyn barbara balfour; 1899-1990) was a british farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement....
		Organic farming is a way of farming that avoids the use of synthetic chemicals as well as genetically modified organisms (gmos), EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/organic_movement.htm (1978 words)

	Organic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organic (model), forms, methods and patterns found in living systems, often used as a metaphor for non-living things.
		Organic movement, refers to the organizations and individuals involved worldwide in the promotion of sustainable agriculture and organic farming
		Organic (military), a military unit predominantly of one type (armour, infantry, artillery, etc.) may incorporate subunits of a different type, to improve combined arms capability e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organic (371 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Organic movement
		The movement began in England in the 1920s, as a reaction by individual agricultural scientists and farmers against industrialized agriculture.
		At this point, organic concerns began to touch the wider public.
		During the 1960s, as problems with pesticides and related environmental and health matters became front-page news, the organic movement entered its modern phase, with support spread across a wide demographic and range of issues.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Organic_movement (501 words)

	Global Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organics may amount to just a tiny fraction of total food sales — estimates range from 1% to 8% — but that fraction is rising.
		Opponents of organic methods — and there are many — work hard to cast doubts on the reliability of organic certification, to weaken the standards (so there really will be something to doubt), and to make consumers question whether organics are better than industrially grown foods and worth a higher price.
		Given the potential size of the organic market, it is easy to understand why critics are enraged by the idea that producing foods organically might be better for you or the planet.
	www.globalagendamagazine.com /2005/marionnestle.asp (1246 words)

	Organica News -- News and Features: The Organic Farming Movement: Trailblazers, Heroes and Pioneers
		His extensive experiments with growing plants and animals substantiated his observations that a declining soil fertility (due to a lack of organic material, major elements and trace minerals) was responsible for poor crops, and in turn, for pathological conditions of animals (including humans) fed deficient foods from such soils.
		Rodale first used the word "organic" to describe the natural method of gardening and farming, mainly because compost, humus and the organic fraction of the soil were emphasized so strongly.
		He proclaimed that to be "organic" was more than just a way to know and understand the lessons of nature in all ways, and to use that knowledge to evaluate all of the "blessings" of science and technology.
	www.organicanews.com /news/article.cfm?story_id=170 (2802 words)

	The Organic-Industrial Complex
		When the organic industry embarked on a period of double-digit annual growth and rapid consolidation in the early 1990s, mainstream food companies began to take organic — or at least, the organic market — seriously.
		Organic is nothing if not a set of values (this is better than that), and to the extent that the future of those values is in the hands of companies that are finally indifferent to them, that future will be precarious.
		If the word "organic" means anything, it means that the way we grow food is inseparable from the way we distribute food, which is inseparable from the way we eat food.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0603-03.htm (1932 words)

	USDA Certified Organic: What It Means To You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organic farms are expanding, local organic "subscription farms" are springing up everywhere, more stores are offering a greater number of organic products, and prices are dropping as supplies increase.
		Organic farmers would love to recycle human wastes safely into fertilizers for their soils, but this will not be possible until the nation has a sewage collection system that keeps toxic chemicals and heavy metals from contaminating sewage sludge (sometimes referred to as "biosolids").
		The national organic rules prohibit the use of antibiotics and synthetic hormones in meat and dairy animals that are certified organic.
	www.organicgardening.com /feature/0,7518,s1-4-54-17,00.html (1041 words)

	The Movement Toward Organic Herb Cultivation In China
		JROFT aims to arouse interest in organic farming by Chinese farmers, help improve the farming environment, exchange experiences in organic farming and organic food trade with devotees of the organic movement throughout the whole world, and open up a bigger market for organic agriculture by its own efforts and those of friends and colleagues.
		While the original Green Foods movement was aimed at having food free of detectable contaminants, the organic foods movement focuses on the method by which the food ends up free of contaminants, namely, by being farmed in a unique chemical-free way, and linking this to sustainable agricultural practices.
		The legal framework for organic farming remains undeveloped and a decision has not yet been made by the government as to which of the organic certifying bodies should have the mandate for the elaboration of regulations and laws and for setting up a central certification authority to meet international requirements.
	www.itmonline.org /arts/organics.htm (5856 words)

	Organic food guidelines & organic label changes to USDA guidelines Debate on StarChefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organics are in the big leagues now, and with retail sales exceeding the tens of billions, droves of agricultural execs want a piece of the action.
		October 21, 2002 was a milestone in the history of the organics movement.
		They point to the fact that produce can be labeled as “organic” even if the seed or the plant stock is not organic, as long as the organic seed or stock is not “commercially available” [2].
	www.starchefs.com /features/food_debates/html/issue_03.shtml (1289 words)

	The Organic Foods Movement - Led by Heinz Corporation or We the People?
		Because organic certification rules were slightly different from state to state, organic food growers and producers had to be aware of these variations in order to be able to market their products in every state.
		State-based organic food certification might have worked just fine for an organics movement whose goals centered around public health and a sustainable economy, and whose leadership continued to be small-scale farmers and producers, and safe food advocates.
		But unfortunately, the safe food movement's numerous and diverse farmer-led and other organizations of the 1970s and 80s gradually ceded organic food policy decision-making authority to a small number of much more centralized organizations whose leaders (and/or funders) now included or were entirely comprised of organic food corporation representatives.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0531-11.htm (2050 words)

	Agribusiness goes organic / New law and growing appetite for wholesome foods bring mega-growers to the table
		But for California organic farmers who've fought big agriculture for years, the move from the fringes of the co-op produce bin to the shelves of Safeway is something of a shock.
		Others, who believe organic is as much about culture as it is about chemicals, wonder whether the government will cater to the big boys from corporate agriculture instead of protecting local, sustainable, earth-friendly food as the original organic movement envisioned.
		Many people in their 20s and 30s were exposed to organic food as children, growing up with hippie parents and an increased sense of the importance of healthy eating.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/13/MN242010.DTL (1599 words)

	Organic Believers See No Compromise
		And that, in a nutshell, is why the organic movement remains on the radical fringe of North American society.
		One organic grower who came to the microphone during the panel discussion hit the nail on the head when he said the organic movement's "wholistic" logic of working with, not against, the environment leads him to think we ought to stop farming and return to being hunters and gatherers.
		Clark said in her keynote address to the convention that she's disturbed by those Ontario organic farmers who grow only three crops on their land and have no livestock or poultry to contribute manure.
	www.biotech-info.net /organic_believers.html (608 words)

	The dark secrets of Whole Foods By Field Maloney
		There are a lot of small, family-run organic farmers, but their share of the organic crop in this country, and of the produce sold at Whole Foods, is minuscule.
		What passes for organic farming today has strayed far from what the shaggy utopians who got the movement going back in the '60s and '70s had in mind.
		The organic-food movement is in danger of exacerbating the growing gap between rich and poor in this country by contributing to a two-tiered national food supply, with healthy food for the rich.
	www.slate.com /id/2138176/nav/tap1?GT1=7932 (1838 words)

	SteinerBooks - The Origins of the Organic Movement
		From a well-respected author in the field of ecological debate, this is the first, authoritative history of twentieth century "green" culture.
		Philip Conford chronicles the surprising origins of the organic movement in Britain and America between the 1920s and 1960s.
		He reveals that the early exponents of the organic movement actually belonged more to extreme right-wing conservative groups, which were reacting to industrialization and the increasing threat to traditional country life, closely associated with socialist politics.
	www.anthropress.org /detail.html?cat=&id=0863153364 (176 words)

	Malta Organic Agriculture Movement (MOAM) Open Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MOAM (Malta Organic Agriculture Movement) in collaboration with the Mellieha Local Council will be organizing an open public forum on Organic Farming, Ecotourism and Agritourism on Friday 24th March at 6.30pm in the local council's premises.
		To be a dynamic movement in safeguarding the well-being of the rural development by sustainable farming methods.
		D: Marketing of organic products must be improved so that justice be made with the organic producers as very often their products are dumped.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=223861&pid=1 (534 words)

	Gardening resources: Journey to Forever organic garden
		This is Howard's follow-up to An Agricultural Testament, extending its themes and serving as a guide to the new organic farming movement as it unfolded -- and encountered opposition from the chemical farming lobby and the type of agricultural scientists Howard referred to as "laboratory hermits".
		This classic text on the organic movement is an address given by the late Lady Eve Balfour, author of the organics classic The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment, to an IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) conference in Switzerland in 1977.
		Eve Balfour was a key figure in the forming of the organic gardening and farming movement, and one of the founders of Britain's Soil Association.
	www.journeytoforever.org /garden_link.html (2629 words)

	Don't Panic Eat Organic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organic farming 'a realistic choice' After a 21-year study, Swiss scientists have given a ringing endorsement to organic farming methods.
		Organic Trader is an online trading network dedicated to bringing suppliers the best possible price and consistent competition for their products.
		Organic Tree Fruit Management is a book by Linda Edwards thru the Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia The book will assist the beginning and the experienced organic grower as well as the conventional grower in transition to organic or considering organic as a option.
	www.rain.org /~sals/my.html (3179 words)

	Review of The Origins of the Organic Movement by Philip Conford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jonathan Dimbleby's introduction to this paperback sets the tone by expelling popular myths that organic farming is a modern phenomenon.
		The roots of the movement stretch back at least a century ago, and its valuable history is explained over the next 240 pages.
		From pre-industrialised British scientists to eminent academics from India, Africa and the USA, the story of the organic movement is methodically told.
	www.organicfood.co.uk /books/origins.html (344 words)

	Organic Valley Farms - Organic Milk, Dairy, Natural Foods
		Organic Valley Family of Farms Celebrates Rural Heritage, Future of Farming
		The earth's most delicious, most healthful foods are made when farmers work in harmony with nature.
		Working with nature is what inspired our original seven farmers to form an organic farming cooperative in 1988.
	www.organicvalley.com (142 words)

	Growing our roots
		One of the recurring topics of discussion at MOSES was the increasing corporate presence in organic food and farming.
		The roots of these co-ops reach down to the Populist movement, the waves of organizing among farmers and rural people to resist the power of the robber barons at the end of the 19th century.
		One of my daydreams is that our movement will somehow find a democratic and participatory way to create a set of holistic goals for our future, so that we can grow into a great healthy tree, spreading our branches over all the people, uniting, nourishing and enriching.
	www.newfarm.org /depts/talking_shop/0304/moseshenderson.shtml (2731 words)

	Organic Business - Skin Care & Cosmetics - Affiliate Opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Further impetus has been given to the organic movement in more recent times due to the occurrence of BSE (Mad Cow Disease), contamination of our fish stocks with mercury and PCBs and the raging controversies surrounding Genetically Modified (GM) foods and the cloning of animals.
		Organic certification for food production is covered in Australia by the Biological Farmers of Australia, in the USA by the USDA, Japan by JAS and in the UK by the Soil Association.
		Organic range of products are independently certified by Australian Certified Organic (ACO), a wholly owed subsidiary of the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA), to the highest possible international FOOD GRADE standards.
	www.hallgold.com (3380 words)

	TRAILBLAZERS, HEROES & PIONEERS -- The Organic Farming Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By 1916 Howard was lecturing that chemical fertilizers were a waste of money, maintaining that organic matter combined with good aeration was enough to allow microbes to provide sufficient amounts of nutrients to feed the world.
		Britain active in organic food and farming, certifying the organic produce in that
		Organica is Aubrey Organic's quarterly published in Florida: 110,000 copies distributed to organic food stores across the land...although few seem to make it out here to California,...soo here ya go..You shouldknow for the final version I also included Lord Northbourn, 1896-1982,who coined the term 'organic farming' in his 1940 book "From the Land"
	www.wildnesswithin.com /kupfer.html (2607 words)

	The International WWOOF Association - home page
		The International WWOOF Association is dedicated to helping those who would like to volunteer on organic farms internationally.
		The Tuscany you can experience on an organic farm is a world away from touristy Chiantishire, and the food is better, too
		Sue Coppard, the Founder of Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms says : I grew up on the outskirts of East Croydon, running around in the Shirley Hills, and then we moved to Hove, where my brother and I used to stay with my aunt and uncle on their farm near Uxbridge.
	www.wwoof.org (744 words)

	UK Newspaper Cites OCA on Big Corporations Hijacking the Organic Movement
		operandi are seen by some as the antipathy of organic agriculture.
		inevitable, the organic movement must think about whether it is prepared
		Organic Consumers Association wants a moratorium on genetically engineered food and encouraging organic food.
	www.organicconsumers.org /organic/deanfoods111303.cfm (699 words)

	Wessex Organic Movement — WORM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WORM aims to raise public awareness about organic food and farming issues and to form a link between growers and customers.
		We promote the consumption of locally grown organic food and encourage people to grow their own food organically.
		WORM is a local Soil Association Group and affiliated to the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
	www.wessexorganic.org.uk (114 words)

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