I have lost track what really defines organic. It has mattered less with time, as the meaning keeps getting watered down.
Trust in the system isn't there, and I wonder if I'm the bigger fool for paying a premium for someone:s ability to skirt past regulations to call what he sells me organic.
It's simply better to know a farmer and for that to happen you have to go local. Organic certifications are just as useful as having a piece of paper certifying one as a doctor or a scientist. And they just do the bidding of their employing in falsifying science into a scam.
Don't trust the system. Trust a person. Easy to say but hard to do in actuality because we don't make time to know. The pressures of every day life leave little room to roam your locale and meet the folks who work the soil and till the land.
At the end of the day, I cross my fingers and hope I'm not taking in enough poison as I get my daily nutrients through food.