date:Sep 27, 2012
Gallo also noted that organic produce tends to sell well in Northeast in the winter, when local produce is all-but-unavailable.
But William Hallmann, director of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers, told The Huffington Post that the tide has turned away from organics and toward local food in the past-half decade. Local is newer and is more of a hot topic than organic, Hallmann explained. Organic has gone mainstream. Walmart is the largest vendor of organic produce in the world today.
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