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As we’ve talked about quite a bit lately, organic food is becoming big business. This is both good and bad of course : less pesticides and a healthier population are good things, but there’s understandable fear that with big money involved quality standards may be compromised and the small farmer further decimated. I tend to fall on the side of believing this is part of a positive evolution – and the chart above illustrtates that almost every big player in the food industry is getting involved with organics to one extent or another. Click the chart to go full screen (courtesy of the Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia).
Soon, we’ll see Wal*Mart on that map too.
