Proponents of organic foods could soon be battling it out over which is the most important aspect of the organic farming movement: the process of growing the food or the reliance on locally grown ingredients. Organic foods have become such big sellers in the U.S. that there simply aren't enough ingredients to go around, meaning companies like Whole Foods and Stonyfield Farm must use imported organic ingredients or fall back on the non-organic kind and change their labels.

You’d think it would be good news that consumer demand for organic foods in the US is growing in leaps and bounds. But according to a report from Organic Monitor, the demand for organic foods so far exceeds the supply of available raw materials in this country that most sectors of the organic food industry in the US are suffering shortages that are actually starting to stunt market growth.

Forget the business speak; to put it bluntly, we’re blowing it. Why aren’t American farmers stepping up to the plate to meet the demand for more organic food?