Today in Organic: February 12, 2010

Bleeding hearts / Flickr user jpellgen

• The Green Fork blog taste tested a dozen fair trade chocolates and ranked all of them. 

• Atlantic food writer Barry Estabrook takes a look at why the EPA thinks it's "it's perfectly OK for Americans to bathe in" atrazine, while the rest of the developed world has banned the herbicide.

• Cooking up a Story's Mark Keating has written an in-depth history of the national organic standards. Today he posted part six. 

• CBS Evening News ran a good report on the use of antibiotics in livestock. Read about it at Grist. 

• Greg Plotkin from Change.org's Sustainable Food blog observes, rightly, that many organic brands are owned by big food companies.

• Farm to Table blogger Zachary Adam Cohen says the sustainable food movement needs to do a better job of storytelling. I quite agree.