Popoff is an organic inspector and consultant based in Osoyoos, B.C. “If they’re not randomly testing, how do we know for sure?” This candid question from an organic consumer goes to the heart of what it should mean to be organic. Six years after The Western Producer broke the story that I had found fraud, […] Read more
Stories by Mischa Popoff
Should organics be subsidized? – Opinion
Popoff is an organic inspector and consultant based in Osoyoos, B.C. Organic activists were pleased with former Saskatchewan MLA Lon Borgerson’s report on how to get 10 percent of farmers in Saskatchewan converted to organic management by 2015. But many organic farmers and consumers were aghast. We got where we are in the organic sector […] Read more
Market will decide upon GMOs – Opinion
Popoff is an organic inspector and consultant based in Osoyoos, B.C. The NDP have a rather unfortunate double standard when it comes to genetically modified organisms. MP Alex Atamanenko, the NDP agriculture critic, says he will “pull back the curtains” on the “shady world of genetically modified foods” by introducing mandatory, and very expensive labelling. […] Read more
