The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week inched closer to approving organic rules for fish for the first time that would let "organic" fish eat up to 25 percent of their diet from non-organic sources, a move which has irked organic advocates worried about sullying otherwise relatively strict standards for organic meat products.
Piscean on the Organic Standards
USDA close to approving relatively weak organic standards for fish 2
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Posted 7:41 AM on 20 Nov 2008
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Wolverine Posted 2:45 pm
24 Nov 2008
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graceg Posted 12:11 am
25 Nov 2008
So you're saying that wild caught fish are okay for people to eat, but please don't feed them to farmed fish? Even with all the restrictions included in the recommended standards? Where's the logic in that?
Meanwhile, there's plenty of farmed organic fish coming from Europe, where they believe that we need to encourage fish farming that is ecologically benign--or would you prefer to keep that from happening here?
The best organic standards are neither "weak" nor "strong." They are ecologically sensible.
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