The United States Department of Agriculture seeks to fill an "environmentalist" slot on the National Organic Standards Board, an opening announced in an April 16th press release. Why should you care? The NOSB makes recommendations to the USDA on what is allowable under USDA Organic Standards. Cloned animals? Recombinant DNA? Sewage sludge? The Board influenced all the decisions to keep these substances out, and will make important future recommendations as well.
Contact Katherine E. Benham, of the National Organic Program. Nominations close August 17, 2007. The position will probably be filled around January, as that's when environmentalist Andrea Caroe's term ends.
More in the press release here. Holla, people! I know you know someone!
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Samuel Fromartz Posted 6:01 am
18 Apr 2007
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It would be great to get a true environmental advocate who works on these issues on the NOSB. Too often, the seats have been filled by people with only tangential experience in their assigned areas. So any ag-focused environmentalists out there who want to get into the nitty gritty of organic regs? You can't get any more wonky than this.
Samuel Fromartz Author Organic Inc.
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