Why Food Reformers Have Mixed Feelings About Eco-Labels [npr.org]
By Dan Charles, NPR, June 12, 2019. Take a walk through the grocery store; the packages are talking to you, proclaiming their moral virtue, appealing to your ideals: organic, cage-free, fair trade. When I dug into the world of eco-labels recently, I was surprised to find that some of the people who know these labels best are ambivalent about them. Take Rebecca Thistlethwaite , for example. She has spent most of her life trying to build a better food system, one that's good for the...