Please Explain: What Organic Labels Mean

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

Kunst , Gesellschaft , Politiknachrichten

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vor 13 Jahren

Thomas Bjorkman, professor of horticulture at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY, and Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group at Consumer Reports, discuss what the organic label indicates about how food is grown, and what the various animal welfare labels indicate about how meat or eggs were bred and raised.