Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may be getting a little overzealous in its push to include more organic products on its shelves, according to the Cornucopia Institute. The group, which represents small farmers recently filed a complaint with the USDA alleging that the megadiscounter had falsely labeled some products as organic.Cornucopia alleges that several Wal-Mart stores mislabeled Stonyfield Farm all-natural yogurt as organic. It also claims that nonorganic items like tofu and juice in a cooler used for organic produce. Wal-mart has countered these claims by noting that one of Cornucopia's founders, Mark Kastel, used to work for Organic Valley, a national farming cooperative that competes with several of the discounter's suppliers.
I'm not really a big buyer of organics and I'm not sure what to make of this case. I am pretty certain that I'd never buy anything labeled organic at Wal-Mart.
True story: I've been buying a six pack of yogurt, sometimes the kind in the little cups you eat and sometimes the bottles you drink, every couple of weeks for the past three months and I haven't eaten/drank one of them. Not one. I don't know why. I get on these kicks where I say "I'm going to get healthier and get some low carb/low sugar yogurt and eat them for meals!" And then they just sit in the fridge for two weeks and expire so I have to throw them away.
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