Department of Agriculture Withdraws Revisions to Organic Standards

Consumers increasingly look to organic labels on their food as a way to ensure that any meat, eggs, or dairy they buy came from animals that had enjoyed nice lives in open fields. But whose responsibility should it be to decide whether the regulated organic label accurately represents the practices that consumers associate with that designation? Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) decided to withdraw an Obama Administration rule that would have added requirements to the qualifying criteria for organic labels on animal products. Those new requirements, including provisions to regulate the care and living conditions of livestock, aimed to make the term “organic” better aligned with consumer expectations. For example, the Obama organics rule established requirements for the size and type of outdoor space for holding chickens, standards for transporting animals to slaughter, and prohibitions on some physical alterations of the animals such as…

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