{"id":450,"date":"2009-12-30T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/12\/deception-in-the-organic-food-industry.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:33:27","slug":"deception-in-the-organic-food-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/12\/deception-in-the-organic-food-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"Deception in the ‘Organic Food’ Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silk” soy products has just been exposed for utterly unethical behavior in the organic food market.  For its parent company, corporate giant Dean Foods, this is not the first time.<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

A recent news story draws lines under my conviction that, necessary as they are, big organizations such as corporations
\ntend to be soulless sociopaths standing in the way of any genuine right livelihood between humans and other
\nhumans and the earth.  <\/span>Since we
\ndepend on them for so much, this issue lies at the core of addressing the
\nproblems intrinsic to modern society.  For those of us who honor the Sacred as immanent the problem is even more fundamental.<\/p>\n

Dean Foods, who produces “Silk” soy products has just been
\ncaught<\/a> after switching from organic soybeans to conventional soybeans without
\nannouncement.   <\/span>It changed the label from organic to
\nnatural, but kept the same bar code, design, and higher prices without even telling
\ntheir retailers their product was no longer organic.  Habitual customers had no readily apparent way of discovering the change.  But unlike “organic” the term “natural” means absolutely nothing once used by corporate marketing tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>A serial criminal, Dean Foods earlier was involved in
\ndeceiving the public<\/a> through another of its “green” front organizations,
\nHorizon Dairy. l<\/a>
\nA human being doing such stuff would be charged with fraud but the sociopaths
\nin charge of Dean Foods simply took home more money. <\/p>\n

I will never ever again buy “Horizon” or “Silk” products – a
\nsow’s ear masquerading as a silk purse if ever there was one.  Please spread the word.<\/p>\n

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