Siduri,
In the United States, the use of the word "organic" is controlled by federal law. It's a rather complex and costly process to get certified, and most of the true organic growers haven't done so because they, justifiably, do not want to spend the time or the money.
As you may have guessed, the law was, essentially, written by Monsanto and it's kin.
There is nothing in the law, however, determining the genetic type of plant. Certainly it would be near impossible to phrase it so that open pollinated plants were included but hybrids not. And it's in the interest of those who wrote the law to have frankenfoods included.
And the fact is, organic---whether federally mandated or not---refers to how you grow things, not what you grow. However, let's keep in mind that frankenfoods, by their very nature, are crops oriented to chemical growing. That's there very reason for being.
The closest control is that the law requires organically grown seed. But there's a cop-out, as it includes the phrase "when available." Which means that aspect of the law is never enforced.
Nor does anyone understand why it was included. There is virtually no decernable difference between seed produced on an organically grown plant versus that produced on a chemically grown plant.  |