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If sustainability is the soul of organic agriculture, then organic fertilizer is the heart. Unlike synthetic chemicals, it helps the soil reclaim essential nutrients. Using organic inputs to create organic food is one of the hallowed tenets upon which the entire movement is based.
The pivotal role of organic fertilizers in food production makes this month's indictment of one of the West Coast's largest suppliers of organic liquid fertilizer disturbing. What's more, this is actually the second time in five months that a federal grand jury in California has charged an organic fertilizer supplier.
In the most recent case, the owner of Port Organic Products faces 28 counts of mail fraud in connection with an alleged scheme that swapped out organic fertilizer made of fishmeal and...