USDA BACKS DOWN ON 'ORGANIC' CHANGES

"The Agriculture Department is rescinding new organic food guidelines that allowed limited use of pesticides and antibiotics, which had prompted criticism from some consumer groups and organic farmers." This is a happy "ending," yes, but it once again demonstrates that the USDA is either run by incompetents who simply do not grasp their basic task, or they continually push things as far as conceivably possible to accomodate their Big Biz cronies, and pull back only when the blowback gets too extreme. I suspect it may be both.