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The organic industry has only been regulated by the US Department of Agriculture for 14 years, but it is growing rapidly, according to an article in the March-April issue of Organic Connections magazine.

The article reports results of the Organic Report 2013, an annual assessment of the state of the organic industry.

The report reveals ever-increasing public awareness of food-related health issues, publicity surrounding GMO labeling initiatives and the national expansion of local food connections, including farmers’ markets, public demand for real food is at an all-time high.

“Organic sales grew above 10 percent as a whole in 2013, which was the same as the previous year,” said Laura Batcha, executive vice-president and interim co–executive director of the Organic Trade Association (OTA). The total market is hovering in the area of $33 billion a year.

The yearly Organic Report survey of consumer attitudes and beliefs found upwards of 80 percent of families in the United States report purchasing organic products. They may not purchase a lot, or all the time; but in U.S. households with children living in the home, 80 percent of them are reporting that they’re participating somehow in the organic market. That’s up from the year before, and it’s up from about 72 percent from four years ago.

“There is absolutely no question that awareness around food, the importance of food and the quality of food, is increasing exponentially,” said Dan Kittredge, founder and president of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA). BFA is a national association of voting members who advocate for vital soils, nourishing food and healthy people. “I attribute this growth in understanding to the fact that for the past three generations or so we have been moving away from the land, and eating processed food. Industrial ag has come in and the relative nutrient levels in our foods have dropped off dramatically. If you understand the science of epigenetics [the study of the process through which genetic information is translated into the substance and behavior of an organism], you understand that it takes two or three generations to wear out the DNA. So with pigs or with tomatoes, if you have two or three generations of bad nutrition, you get weak genetics and susceptibility to infestation and disease. This situation has now translated to people: in our society we have an absolutely epidemic level of disease that’s systemically degenerative and has at its root food quality as the cause and the solution. We’re in an information age; it’s a simple fact and it’s getting out.”

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