VBD
I agree. Diversity in our food supply is a good thing. We don’t want anyone to control it all.
As for food labeling, I think specificity is the answer. Trying to lump a category of food into a “natural” or “organic” box leads to problems; not the least of which is deciding which foods comply with the definition of the term.
Organic has gotten better at achieving a consistent definition but it’s still not without problems. Something like “Kosher” that is rigidly defined is pretty good I guess…
The best solution would be to just say something about the food that the consumer might be interested in, like “grown without synthesized fertilizers or pesticides.” Or “produced from irrigated crops.”
If it turns out a lot of people are suddenly interested in whether or not food was produced with immigrant labor, that could be put on a label. Really, the possibilities are endless…
Nutritional information, on the other hand, is much easier. It’s not so conditional or driven by public concerns and fears. Either it has 8 grams of protein or it doesn’t.