Today in Organic: December 14, 2009

Frosty Celery / Flickr user Chiot's Run

• An Associated Press investigation has uncovered some secret documents that detail Monsanto Corp's practice of "squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops." (Monsanto bloggers respond.)

• Over at The Dirt on Green (our new ChicagoNow blog), I put together a list of new organic restaurants that opened in Chicago this year, and a list of winter farmers markets in Chicago. 

• GOOD profiles Birdbath, my favorite organic bakery in NYC.

• Target Corp admitted fault today for advertising Silk soy milk as "organic" when in fact it is not. The Cornucopia Institute filed a complaint against Target with the USDA in October, and they filed a similar complaint against Dean Foods, according to the New York Times. 

• Civil Eats takes a look at Ken Meter's work mapping the Minnesota food industry. "Using quantitative data collected over time, Meter articulates how funneling dollars into regional food production, processing and marketing can boost our local economies," according to Civil Eats.