BOULDER, Colo.—The Organic Center, a leading research institute focused on the science of organic food and farming, revealed today its seven predictions for 2010 regarding food safety, agriculture and nutrition. Its predictions revealed concern for the state of the food industry and American agriculture, casting a dark shadow over national efforts to improve public health and restrain health care costs, conserve natural resources, and combat global climate change.
The tends it predicts are:
1. An increase in the number of children facing developmental issues including autism, ADHD, birth defects and allergies.
2. An increase in the number of Americans who are obese, diabetic or both.
3. A decrease in the efficacy of life-saving antibiotics.
4. An increase in disease linked to inflammation.
5. An increase in the spread of “super weeds.”
6. The continued rapid decline of the honeybees.
7. Global warming.
