"What’s stopping big farms from selling corn as “organic” just to boost sales," As someone who does some custom organic farming for a neighbor I can answer that. I haul this guys organic corn and beans to Sun-opta elevator in Hope Mn. Every load is tested at elevator for non-organic contamination. I don't know how they do it but they have a bunch of machines that they run samples through. There is a very small percent of contamination that is acceptable. I clean my combine and truck out very thorough and then flush the combine with first 20 bushels of organic crop. That is brought home where I feed it to my pigs and chickens. Still my first load of organics dumped has some contamination but is acceptable. Each load after that the contamination is less, which makes sense. Been doing it for him for 7 years and have not had a load rejected yet but have been there when another guy had a load rejected. I suppose you could argue that Sun-opta and the producers have a scam going but that is quit a conspiracy theory and I just don't buy it. For those of you who say there is no difference in the food, I have to disagree with you too. Those testing machines are measuring something and detecting a difference. I am not saying one is better then the other but there is a difference.
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