Source: nytimes.com /The New York Times / December 30, 2011 / “Organic Agriculture May Be Outgrowing Its Ideals” / Elisabeth Rosenthal Todos Santos, Mexico / 1000news.de: More and more Americans buy foods with the organic label today, but the explosive growth in the commercial cultivation of organic food, the export-driven organic farming and an energy-intensive global distribution chain require new regulations for organic certification e. g. that growers use practices that protect water resources. / “(..) To carry the Agriculture Department’s organic label on their produce, farms in the United States and abroad must comply with a long list of standards that prohibit the use of synthetic fertilizers, hormones and pesticides, for example. But the checklist makes few specific demands for what would broadly be called environmental sustainability, even though the 1990 law that created the standards was intended to promote ecological balance and biodiversity as well as soil and water health.(..)”,  The New York Times, December 30, 2011 / Read more on >> nytimes.com