Due to an increasingly confusing definition process in the labeling of organic foods, rendering many American consumers confused about what the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) organic seal truly means, a vast number of American consumers are choosing locally grown foods instead. This foregoing of the food that is grown nationally and shipped around the country is due namely to the fact that there is a  lot of confusion and of mistrust for the USDA label. Couple this doubt with the fact that there is now a strong mistrust that the USDA’s organic standards are declining completely, and you can see how much American consumers demand from their governmental regulatory groups.
In the end, of course, it all makes sense. If the government says it recognizes that Americans want the choice to eat organic foods, and the government wants to make eating those organic foods “and by association improving our national health and safety standards easier,” then they need to carry through on their end of the deal. Now that American are doubting that the USDA is doing that, they are taking things into their own hands and simply eating locally grown produce that they know they can trust. Not a bad system, at least not for the average consumer, even if it takes a little more time to get to that locally grown produce.