Edenews October 2024
Organic & Regenerative Agriculture
Real organic agriculture (ag) is regenerative ag, although regenerative ag is not organic. Organic ag has always been regenerative to cleanse and energize soil, food, and the environment using sustainable ag practices that encourage life and produce the best tasting, most nutritious food. In the U.S., organic ag’s purpose is being greenwashed away to serve deceptive, short-term interests of big money and big government. Eden Foods remains focused on fundamentally regenerative organic ag.
Continued development of organic practices will lead to appreciation of natural energy that is the focus of biodynamic ag.
Changing emphasis and focus from organic to regenerative intentionally avoids illegal U.S. organic practices and their unspoken horrific results. Corrupt government’s influence on organic ag is blatant. USDA’s marketing agency role in promotion of toxic ag and GMOs is in conflict with achieving the benefits of organic ag.
The ballyhoo for ‘regenerative’ (replacement word for ‘sustainable’ that was greenwashed into oblivion) ignores the fact that regenerative practices allow use of toxic ag chemicals ‘where needed.’ Real organic methods avoid them. Organic certification in Europe, Canada, and Japan is more thorough and effective in preventing toxin use and it does a good job for the people there. Cheap, fraudulent, USDA ‘organic’ food from Eastern Europe through Turkey and from South America floods the U.S. market. It has driven real organic growers into the poorhouse and out of business by denying them viable economics necessary for success.
Rampant sophisticated fraud in the U.S. manipulates language and word meanings to exploit lax U.S. organic inspection and a flimsy paperwork system that appears to be designed to invite and facilitate cheaters. Easy, fraudulent profits attract criminals. They are doled out to foreigners by bureaucrats feathering their beds with ill-gotten gain from marketing what nobody wants at the expense of the well-being of Americans and the credibility of USDA organic and its pathetic reputation internationally.
The easier, cheaper way used for regenerative ag food is not an assurance at all that toxic ag practices are not employed. “Regenerative” is misleading to the consumer where toxic chemicals are allowed and hidden. More accurate would be ‘somewhat regenerative.’
Slipshod U.S. organic certification, commonly with no third-party inspections carried out for imports, creates a dire need to return to the basics. Support local growers and restore commonsense to organic food certification as required by law. A U.S. rubber stamp organic paperwork system provides no barrier to fraudsters. It does not assure authentic organic food. The regenerative moniker aspires to create an organic replacement that allows toxic, caustic chemical use and misleads people.
Ignore the Obvious
Real organic farmers use and create regenerative energies and a sustainable source of good food. Instead of ignoring an intentionally broken, deceitful organic certification system, why don’t people go about having it fixed? Certainly, chemical companies are more comfortable with the trendy term regenerative than organic. Abandoning and undermining generations of accumulated knowledge about real organic ag practices and food handling is exactly what bureaucratic crowd-controllers are carrying out.
Real organic regenerative ag began post WWI after nonsensical ag practices adopted repurposed petrochemical derived nitrogen explosives manufacturing as fertilizer, toxic ag chemicals, and drugs. The post WWI green revolution (deceptive marketing) was declared based upon an over amped explosive capacity repurposed to make wonder drugs for growing food that were marketed as fertilizers. This rapidly developed into petroleum derived herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, preservatives, solvents, synthetic fibers, and thousands of toxic food additives. A transplanted war mentality against nature’s harmonious balance overwhelmed ag and food manufacturing. That combat mindset was spurred on again at the end of WWII.
Military industrial complex dominance of large scale ag and healthcare in ‘modern’ society has converted wisdom and understanding into highly profitable, monopolized war games against nature. Falsely marketed genetically engineered, patented, food-like concoctions and drugs that pervert DNA and RNA are recent versions of the assault on the balance of nature. Their prevalence mirrors documented degeneration. Soil vitality, food purity, good taste, and life energy are its victims.
New Marketing Term
Regenerative is a marketing term used to set itself apart from questionable, so-called organic agricultural practices with lax to nonexistent regulatory oversight and its predictable (actually intended) fraud for profit. It is an appeasement to those whose goal it is to diminish the value of authentic organic ag.
Most techniques used in real-organic regenerative ag are traditional, commonsensical methods that improve soil quality and its ability to grow nutritious, delicious food. Intelligent farming and food systems increase biodiversity, encourage life in the soil, and improve ecology. Eden Foods’ regenerative organic ag practices are authentic organic.
Real organic agriculture is not at war with nature. It works with the natural order and nature’s energies. It encourages nature, the environment, and life in the soil to enhance life rather than compete with, remove, replace, dominate, and overpower natural order. Commercial ag is addicted to toxic chemicals that kill life. Real regenerative organic ag enhances life, invigorating it.
Necessity of Life
Real organic regenerative ag is a balanced, whole ecology approach to agriculture. It is agriculture that restores live in the soil and avoids contributing to millions of tons of toxins added to water and the environment. It cleanses us after decades of detrimental, chemical dependent monoculture farm practices. Healthy, vibrant, real organic soil prevents erosion, boosts biodiversity, and substantially sequesters carbon. It is beneficial to all life on Earth.
Avoiding the foolishness of government and academia farm guidance must be avoided. Them pushing toxic sewage sludge onto America’s farmland to keep it out of landfills is an example. That sludge contains concentrated heavy metals and toxic forever chemicals that become part of commercial food and the entire environment. More intelligent alternatives are obvious and organic ag is at the center of them.
Salt of the Earth Growers
Eden Foods’ salt-of-the-earth growers have used organic, regenerative methods for decades. Their practiced tending produces the finest food that can be found.
Grower Relationships
Year after year, Eden Foods visits the families who grow EDEN foods. Sitting in their kitchens, exchanging updates, exploring ideas, touring outbuildings, and walking their fields is the only way we know to maintain mutual trust and understand what actually motivates them. Understanding their motivation is critical. The respect and care Eden Foods demonstrates to the growers, they say, “Sets Eden apart from other companies.”
Accountability
In 1988, after twenty years of doing organic certification, Eden Foods was convinced to use third-party organic certification. At that time, Eden Foods’ farm and factory organic systems manuals were formative bedrock used by new organic certifiers.
Eden’s primary organic certifier is the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA), although Eden maintains complete responsibility for ensuring organic authenticity. It is more than paperwork. Eden knows its growers well. Third-party certifiers work with Eden Foods’ standards, require an audit trail, and provide deep transparency.
Since 1993, Eden has maintained a system that avoids genetically engineered food. The GMO industry and the USDA want people to believe commercial scale non-GMO food is impossible, as they’ve already substantially and intentionally polluted ag and food. Eden Foods is proof that non-GMO food is still doable. Test records and the food demonstrate this.
Commercial organic food no longer has to be natural food. There are hundreds of chemicals and ‘allowables’ permitted in the USDA National Organic Program (NOP). Eden Foods avoids them. USDA organic certification requirements vary enormously in practice, all the way to nonexistent. Accountability is rare, especially for imported food.
Eden does not consider food ‘certified organic’ unless they have carried out due diligence regarding authenticity. The same is true for Eden’s non-GMO claims. In 1993, Eden adopted a policy that banned all genetically engineered substances. Eden tests, so we know, before we say it is non-GMO.
Eden real, organic food meets and exceeds requirements for the USDA organic seal. Eden chooses not to use the USDA organic seal because it is such a low bar. Eden Foods’ goals, standards, and results are not represented by that seal.