the world of organic agriculture - Organic Eprints

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Statistics and Emerging Trends 2006
Even so, there is more room for growth, according to experts speaking at the Institute of Food
Technologists’ annual meeting in July.
Meanwhile, OTA has successfully been able to encourage organic choices at venues when it holds
events. The foodservice concessionaire serving McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, reported that
OTA was its first client to request organic products at that venue. The result was an array of
organic sandwiches and salads in McCormick Place’s restaurants and concessions stands, and
even organic Starbucks Coffee during OTA’s All Things Organic Conference and Trade Show in
May. In another breakthrough, OTA worked with Haute on the Hill, caterer at the U.S. House of
Representatives, to provide an organic luncheon at the Rayburn House Office Building during
OTA’s annual Congressional Education Day event in September. It was the caterer’s first organic
event at the U.S. House of Representatives.
Participants in Organic Trade
Association‘s Congressional
Education Day stand on the U.S.
Capitol steps in Washington, D.C.
(Photo courtesy of the Organic
Trade Association).
Congressman John Olver of
Massachusetts, shown with Beth
Fraser of OTA staff, examines organic
tomatoes during his visit to
OTA‘s headquarters during OTA‘s
Bring Your Legislator to Work
Month event. (Photo courtesy of
the Organic Trade Association).