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Organic

a Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth Behind Food Labeling
Sep 13, 2016nparrish rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
The "Organic" industry is a label scam & nothing more. I got this book hoping it'd be a genuine critique of the whole racket. Instead, it mostly focuses on the geographic origin of so-called organic foods. He does pick on fake-hippie corporations like Traitor Joe's & Whole Foods, which kept me reading. However, this is an anti-GMO book. He even cites Jeremy Seifert & "GMO OMG" as references. Seifert is a known scammer who used to pretend he could levitate. If you're afraid of GMOs, it's because you're uneducated. If you even read the 1st few pages of this book, you'll see the author is a gullible & emotional shopper, easily tricked by labels & slogans. This scientifically-illiterate "journalist" also works at U of Oregon, so he is totally entrenched in the culture of liberal woo, greenwashing, ecotourism, anti-science, & fake social justice. He goes off on tangents about the evils of Monsanto & other imagined fears. I will avoid his other books due to this one.