You're listening to The Digest This Podcast, and I'm your host, Bethany Cameron.

This episode has been a month and a half in the works, at least. So I have been investigating

many, many USDA certified organic brands. And I have been looking up in the USDA organic database,

which is available to the public, by the way.

So you have access to it.

And I'll put that link in today's show notes

because I highly encourage you to do your own research.

So basically what I have been doing for the past month and a half is I have been looking

up USDA organic certified companies, wellness companies, obviously, quote, healthy brands that are

certified organic to see if in fact they are certified organic because if you've

missed some past episodes in this podcast, I highly encourage you to do that, go back a few weeks.

I talk about how there's been many scams in the organic industry and many companies.

In fact, there's been lawsuits that have happened because companies have been using either expired organic certification stamps on their products or not even organic products to begin with.

They have stolen other people's certifications, put their company name on the cert and tried

to get away with it.

Obviously, they didn't because now it's public knowledge that many organic brands have basically

been duping us and they've been selling us hot quote air quote high end high priced

quote quality products that's really no different than the conventional

counterpart. Some of these brands have actually gone out of business because of this.

It was huge. This is everything from organic makeup to organic food. Some of these brands

that have been caught were big box brands. And to get out of it,

they just simply paid off the person that found out or just paid off the lawsuit because

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