Ron Krupp: Keeping organic standards high

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ron Krupp, who is the author of “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening.” It originally aired on Vermont Public Radio.
Mark Kastel is the co-director of the organic advocacy nonprofit, Cornucopia, and he says we’re seeing the rise of two definitions of organic.
One is promulgated by big corporations, with weaker standards and potentially suspect ingredients — all facilitated by a compliant USDA and largely cloaked in secrecy. The oth