To define them as organic stretches common sense. But the public needs to look beyond these high-profile debacles. Within the proposal, line by line, are hundreds more negations of organic standards and principles. For example, the buffer zone between organic and non-organic fields is gone, which means that chemical drift can now be a reality. Chemically treated seeds have been approved, as have chemically grown plant starts.
Synthetic ingredients are now ok for fertilizers.
Antibiotics and some hormones are to be approved for livestock production. Factory farm confinement for livestock is considered organically benign. Non-organic mammalian livestock can be used as organic slaughter stock. Strychnine is now ok, as is the coating of fruits and produce. It appears that ground sheep brains are ok for organic cattle feed, although surely illegal.