Prevent the Organic Label from Greenwashing
Tell USDA to Protect Consumers, Not Industrial Fish Farmers

You want food labels you can trust.  “USDA Organic” should be one of them. Industrial fish farmers seek to cash in on the organic label – only you can stop them.

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB ) -- at the request of the industrial fish farming industry -- is considering allowing farmed fish to get the organic label even though the practices are anything but organic. This astonishing greenwashing covers up unsustainable practices like feeding wild fish to fish in open net pens in the ocean.

Feeding wild fish to farmed fish not only disrupts ocean ecosystems by wiping out the fish on the bottom of the food chain, but may also increase the amount of dangerous pollutants like mercury and PCBs that end up in the farmed fish consumers eat.  And raising farmed fish in open nets can pollute the ocean with massive amounts of waste and exposes wild fish populations to parasites and other diseases.  

Neither of these practices is consistent with organic principles that you have come to trust and that require minimal impact on the environment, control of inputs and outputs, and animals to be raised on organically-raised feed.

Tell the NOSB -- and please use your own words -- to stop the greenwashing and vote against lowering the bar for organic standards.