Since 2002, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has tightly regulated whether farms can call their produce organic or not. While the organic market has gotten significant press over the past few years with more people wanting a healthy lifestyle, USA Today reports that today's farmers are more concerned with the quality of their product.
"[Some farmers] are no longer playing the organic licensing game due to its onerous bureaucratic qualities," Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin told the news provider. "And it does not address many of the important variables - like techniques for soil fertility, weeding and employee treatment - so charlatans receive credentials along with true-blue producers."
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