Coming together As the organic produce market continues to expand and evolve, people like Ramming and people like Vaitla will increasingly find themselves having to come together to support the interests of small organic farmers, because corporate co-opting of the organic market threatens both of their primary interests. Organic is becoming a more enticing proposition for everyone, local or not, now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a long-awaited standard for organic food. While recognition of organic farming by the USDA may stimulate more support for the organic market, farming corporations will indubitably want their piece of the pie. Consolidation among industrial-sized organic farms is already growing. However, Ramming's farmhand, D.D. Levine, believes the integrity of organic produce tended in industrial-sized plots should be questioned, especially when it is grown alongside conventional, chemically treated crops.
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