Stefano R. Mugnaini

Many small producers are eschewing the USDA label as simply not worth it. The same organizational structure that has rendered the Certified Organic label obsolete could immediately step in to fill the void left by the absence of the FDA and USDA.

It is not legalization but prohibition that should be considered outlandish and offensive. This should be apparent to the constitutionalists among us, who define the primary purpose of government as the protection of individual rights.

Howard Gold should be appointed a one-man Nobel-prize committee. I'm not calling for him to win the prize, just for him to have the job of bestowing the title. I base this on very little substance: I...