This past December, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman announced a proposed a new national set of standards for the burgeoning organic food industry. The new rules aim to set a uniform national standard about what is and what is not organic.

One area that has generated the most attention has been whether genetically engineered organisms and bio-tech food products should be included as organic.

Guests:

• Joe Mendelson, an attorney with Organic Watch, a coalition of environmental groups and organic farmers critical of the proposed US Department of Agriculture regulations.
• Alan Goldhammer, the executive director for technical affairs of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the leading voice for the biotechnology industry in Washington, D.C.

Related links:

• Mother Jones Magazine–“Organic Engineering”
• Yahoo’s Organic listings