They’ve begun to eat their own:
Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company has been hit with another lawsuit that criticizes the brand’s claims.
The nonprofit, politically active group Organic Consumers Association filed a lawsuit earlier this month with the Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that Honest violates the Organic Food Production Act of 1990 and the California Organic Products Act of 2003 by claiming its Premium Infant Formula is organic.
“They’ve begun to eat their own”
Just like the GOP!
my understanding is Alba is loaded. probably has a LOT to do with the ambulance chaser lawsuit and scant to do with labeling, marketing, regulation or whatever.
When the left begins to eat its own, we can do nothing but keep calm, carry on, and glow inwardly.
God help their whole “industry” if they are forced in court, to define organic.
Would be a real PR fiasco if the dummies who rush to buy their brands actually realized what organic means.
“The ocean is the ultimate solution” Frank Zappa.
I remember in 2014 farmers in CA were allowed to lower the requirements for organic labelling due to the drought.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/california-organic-farming-variance_n_5009113.html
Damn back to nature freaks and these annoying organic freakos need to GO AWAY
It is my understanding that the organic label can be applied to any product
that is at least xx percent organic. When the law itself is vague, I would
suspect any product bearing that label. 2. Trace elements of chemicals
can appear in products thought to be 100 percent organic. In this day and
age, we can detect chemicals down to the parts per billion. If the baby food
mentioned in the video contained just a few parts per billion of cyanide, it
would be perfectly safe for any baby to consume. Absolute purity does not
exist anywhere in nature. It is like the argument against GMO’s. Morons
railing against “Franken foods” are clueless idiots who think one can splice
animal genes to plants. Dogs and cats are not genetically compatible. No
flora or fauna can be hybrid if they are not compatible. In other words,
GMO’s are as natural as any non GMO foods.
People have been doing this for plants for hundreds of years. The Dutch fiddled
with carrots (Which were purple) til they got their national color (Orange.)
Cross breeding dogs has gone on for thousands of years. There is nothing sinister
about GMO’s and nothing scary about trace levels of almost any chemical in our food.
Jessica Alba simply ISN’T one of “them”. She is beautiful, talented, stylish, and successful. She ISN’T a dowdy, old, haggard, frumpy, “organic” activist. Alba is EVERYTHING that the average organic nut job isn’t. How DARE she clean house selling “organic” goods. She isn’t one of “them”.
Most people make a critical distinction between genetically modified plants such as those produced with traditional crossbreeding techniques, and genetically engineered organisms. There have been some experiments involving inserting animal genes into plants, but none of those experiments have resulted in GMOs that are being grown commercially for food anywhere. There is the classic case of an antifreeze gene from fish put into tomatoes to try to increase cold tolerance, but that experiment was never commercialized. Ventria Biosciences has a rice plant which produces human lysozyme, which is an enzyme that destroys certain kinds of bacteria, and is found in tears, saliva, ear wax, etc. They are trying to develop a cheap way to produce lysozyme to prevent diarrhea in developing countries.
Scientists continue to find new ways to insert genes for specific traits into plant and animal DNA. A field of promise—and a subject of debate—genetic engineering is changing the food we eat and the world we live in.
In the brave new world of genetic engineering, Dean DellaPenna envisions this cornucopia: tomatoes and broccoli bursting with cancer-fighting chemicals and vitamin-enhanced crops of rice, sweet potatoes, and cassava to help nourish the poor.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/food-how-altered.html
Anyone can google for other examples.
In short, all of those experiments failed. Animal genes are incompatible with
plant DNA. Nobody working in this field will ever succeed in producing a Man
bear pig, let alone a Man bear corn! This is as big a hoax as global warming,
if not bigger!
Wow – it’s hard for me to determine what disturbs me more – nutters vs nutters … or nutters vs nutters.
“But it was done in a lab, not in nature! That makes it scary and dangerous!”
In short, all of those experiments failed.
In short, you are misinformed. You post your opinions with nothing to back them up. The experiments have NOT ‘failed’. Perhaps you should learn to think beyond your misconceptions and do a little real world research. Nobody is trying to produce your weird examples, however that doesn’t validate your opinion. That’s called reductio ad absurdum. Look it up.
Organicly grown food has the same nutritonal conent as traditionaly grown food
What you are suggesting is physically impossible. And yes, I know what the term
reductio ad absurdum means. Plant and animal genes are simply not compatible.
If you learn how to click on links then you will find a whole world of credible information to dispel the myths you chose to believe. Even National Gepgraphic has more credibility than your faith based opinions. Since you obviously haven’t mastered the techniques of internet research here’s a quick education from the Nat Geo article to refute your opinions.
But the technique of genetic engineering is new, and quite different from conventional breeding. Traditional breeders cross related organisms whose genetic makeups are similar. In so doing, they transfer tens of thousands of genes. By contrast, today’s genetic engineers can transfer just a few genes at a time between species that are distantly related or not related at all.
Genetic engineers can pull a desired gene from virtually any living organism and insert it into virtually any other organism. They can put a rat gene into lettuce to make a plant that produces vitamin C or splice genes from the cecropia moth into apple plants, offering protection from fire blight, a bacterial disease that damages apples and pears. The purpose is the same: to insert a gene or genes from a donor organism carrying a desired trait into an organism that does not have the trait.
The engineered organisms scientists produce by transferring genes between species are called transgenic. Several dozen transgenic food crops are currently on the market, among them varieties of corn, squash, canola, soybeans, and cotton, from which cottonseed oil is produced. Most of these crops are engineered to help farmers deal with age-old agriculture problems: weeds, insects, and disease.
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Other food plants—squash and papaya, for instance—have been genetically engineered to resist diseases. Lately scientists have been experimenting with potatoes, modifying them with genes of bees and moths to protect the crops from potato blight fungus, and grapevines with silkworm genes to make the vines resistant to Pierce’s disease, spread by insects.
Don’t believe everything you think.