{"id":21413,"date":"2010-03-06T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21413"},"modified":"2017-09-16T22:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T03:13:39","slug":"what-does-an-organic-label-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/06\/what-does-an-organic-label-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does an Organic Label Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shayna over at <a href=\"http:\/\/rpi-fff.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/whats-in-label-that-which-we-call-usda.html\">Food, Farms, and Famine<\/a> posted about what the label &#8220;organic&#8221; means. The specific wording, and where on the package the statement is placed, is an indication of just how &#8220;organic&#8221; the product might be,<\/p>\n<p>This video also discusses the meaning of various organic labels (put after the jump because it starts playing automatically):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ezEmbeddedPlayerDiv\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.tbo.com\/widgets\/630\/frame.js?width=640&amp;height=440&amp;episode=28437185\">&amp;#a0;<\/script><a id=\"ezEmbedSiteLink\" href=\"http:\/\/video.tbo.com\/m\/28437185\/is-it-organic.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch this at Tampa Bay Online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in food issues, check out the Food, Farms, and Famine site&#8211;you can find everything from a discussion of the newest wonder-food, the acai berry, to a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/1862-2008-a-brief-history-of-food-and-nutrition-labeling\/\">history of food labeling<\/a>. [Full disclosure: I know the students&#8217; professor, the ever-fabulous Abby K.]<\/p>\n<p>Also: an <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/19\/consumer-reports-eco-labeling-website\/\">eco-labeling website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/18\/who-owns-organic-brands\/\">ownership of organic brands<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/10\/what-does-organic-look-like\/\">what does &#8220;organic&#8221; look like<\/a>?<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shayna over at Food, Farms, and Famine posted about what the label &#8220;organic&#8221; means. The specific wording, and where on the package the statement is placed, is an indication of just how &#8220;organic&#8221; the product might be, This video also discusses the meaning of various organic labels (put after the jump because it starts playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,2123,2124],"class_list":["post-21413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-environmentnature","tag-foodagriculture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71273,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions\/71273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}