AlterNet on America's Eating Disorder:

When you actually go visit some of those animals, though, you realize that organic food has become industrialized. We now have organic factory farms, organic feed lots, and those are words that I never expected to put next to one another. This isn't the original idea that motivated organic; it was a much more holistic idea that took into account things like energy and the welfare of animals. I'm afraid that that's fallen by the wayside. The government has established a very narrow definition of what organic food is, a definition that doesn't embrace the welfare of animals in any significant way and doesn't think about energy.