More organic farmers and organizations sign on to a letter to John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, asking for a moratorium on the grocer’s new produce rating system that disadvantages organic growers. The controversy publicly erupted last week with stories in the New York Times and on National Public Radio detailing organic farmer dissatisfaction with a rating system that can grade conventional produce grown with toxic agrichemicals as superior to organically grown fruits and vegetables.
Read the updated letter from farmers and their supporters here [Updated again 6-24].
