The Sustainable Living Podcast

Grace Gershuny is the Organic Revolutionary. She is the author of  the book by that very name - a memoir of her life long effort to support healthy soil for our planet and healthy food for all who live on it.   Grace was one of the people who dedicated years of their life to develop the USDA Standards for Organic. Not only was the process long, but also difficult.   The mayor companies with interest in industrial agriculture we called Monsanto in the podcast since most everybody knows what that name stands for. But Monsanto is of course not the only company producing chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and GMO crops.   Opposition from those companies was expected, but not from the organic activist crowd which apparently became quite nasty and hate mail was the new normal for Grace for a while.   To add insult to injury, politics plays a big role in Washington, including office politics. In the end, Grace was no longer part of the team writing the final standards and she feels that they were a far cry