Why fraud? Organic is certifying different, but clearly defined production and husbandry standards. You have to meet EU, USDA etc requirements before you can legally use the term organic. It's a worthwhile indicator of less excess in farming, and a marked step up from the many, often dubious, self-certification schemes and logos.
Whether you prefer the flavour, or think the restrictions of organic are necessary or not, or don't go far enough are another matter.
USDA has, I think, just about the weakest definition of organic globally. I can't say I'm surprised to find some fraud in the system, given all we know of the rest of US agriculture. Clearly better enforcement is required, as is a tighter definition of the standard. Even so, it still seems to be the highest US enforced certification available, so remains the best indicator of production and animal treatment a US consumer has, for all its flaws and inadequacy.
Thankfully the EU is doing better, though that may well change markedly for the worse here in the UK after Brexit. Especially if the much mooted, and one-sided UK-US trade deal is made real, not just mythical rainbows and unicorns.
> Why fraud? Organic is certifying different, but clearly defined production and husbandry standards.
Those production and husbandry standards aren't always quite what we expect them to be. You should see how "free range" chickens are raised. Australian farmers who actually care about the welfare of the chickens and the quality of the end product have been trying to create a new brand "pasture raised" or "pastured eggs" (in the case of eggs) because lobbying by the major producers watered down the standards to the point it's disgusting to see chicken feedlots where chooks are free to range at 10,000 hens per hectare.
Free range is a great example of one of those that's been hollowed out to be a near useless marketing phrase in many parts of the world. EU standards set amount of outside access, and limit birds per hectare - a quick search says 3,500 per hectare. USDA restrict neither making it completely worthless. EU Organic is tighter than the EU free range definition on birds per hectare, and limits total flock size too.
Free range is marketed to imply old time farm yards with a few dozen hens happily pecking around some rural spacious idyll. The reality is depressingly different. Whether you care about organic aims at all, buying EU organic gets you the "most" free range eggs from best treated hens, that you can get at the supermarket. Which is more than a bit silly.
You won't be surprised to learn I'm in favour of much stronger regulation and definitions on food and production labelling. While we're at it, adding carbon impact to labels.
Whether you prefer the flavour, or think the restrictions of organic are necessary or not, or don't go far enough are another matter.