{"id":273,"date":"2007-10-16T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T11:53:52","slug":"consumers-enforce-organics-in-us-because-the-government-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/consumers-enforce-organics-in-us-because-the-government-wont\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers enforce organics in US, because the government won&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting                      on behalf of organic food consumers in 27 states, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/articles\/article_7757.cfm\">class action                      lawsuits are being filed in U.S. federal courts                      in St. Louis and Denver, against Aurora Dairy Corporation<\/a>.  The suits charge Aurora, one of the nation&#8217;s largest                      organic dairies, with consumer fraud,                      negligence, and unjust enrichment concerning the sale of organic                      milk by the company. In April, Aurora received                      a notice from the USDA detailing <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=130\">multiple and &#8220;willful&#8221;                      violations of federal organic law<\/a> that were found by federal                      investigators, specifically not providing mandatory pasture                      access and bringing non-organic cows onto their massive feedlots. The USDA gave Aurora                      a &#8220;slap on the wrist,&#8221; rather than taking away the                      corporation&#8217;s USDA Organic certification. Commenting                      on this week&#8217;s class action lawsuit, Ronnie Cummins, National                      Director of the OCA stated: &#8220;If the USDA refuses to properly                      enforce organic standards, then organic consumers have no                      choice but to act as their own enforcement body, using the                      courts to punish those corporations, like Aurora, that put                      profits ahead of organic integrity.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is a welcome display of consumer choice, setting an example for us all to emulate.  Well done America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting on behalf of organic food consumers in 27 states, class action lawsuits are being filed in U.S. federal courts in St. Louis and Denver, against Aurora Dairy Corporation. The suits charge Aurora, one of the nation&#8217;s largest organic dairies, with consumer fraud, negligence, and unjust enrichment concerning the sale of organic milk by the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/consumers-enforce-organics-in-us-because-the-government-wont\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consumers enforce organics in US, because the government won&#8217;t<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}