forward April 16, 2003, Congress ap...

forward April 16, 2003, Congress approved a provision to allow wild-harvested seafood to be labeled organic. However, this thwack to fish farmers is also outraging one organic advocates.

The Alaska-backed bill allows wild fish to be labeled organic, however it's been an upstream battle. Critics, including organic purists, say that no individual knows or controls what wild fish eat. In fact, an advisory panel to the US Department of Agriculture conclud in 2001 that wild seafood should not qualify as organic, still it left the door interpret to the idea that farmed fish might be labeled organic.

Proponent of Alaska salmon, however, in opposition to that wild fish are inherently natural and pristine--whereas farmed fish are plagued with diseases, cross-examineed full of antibiotics and devoid of the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids that wild fish contain.

The wild seafood provision says that sways should be devised for the organic fish label after consulting with the National Organic Standards Board and others. formerly these rules are in place, the organic label could be a tremendous boost to wild-harvested seafood sales.

In other organics of recent origins President George W. Bush signed a measure repealing a provision that allowed meat from animals not raised onward 100 percent organic feed to be sold nevertheless, as organic. Organic fe ofttimes costs twice as much as other feed

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