Dr. David Naimon Linley Dixon, PhD Farm and Food Policy Analyst Linley Dixon discusses The Cornucopia Institute’s latest report Culture Wars: How the Food Giants turned Yogurt, a Health Food, into Junk Food. Learn why the “live and active cultures” label is not a good signifier of the healthiness of your yogurt, the hidden additives… Read more »
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Linley Dixon Joins Cornucopia Policy Staff
Cornucopia is pleased to welcome farmer and soil scientist Linley Dixon, PhD to our team as Food and Farm Policy Analyst. Linley owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado, with her husband Peter and 4-year-old daughter Raina. Prior to farming, she spent 15 years… Read more »
The Integrity of the Organic Label
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia Senior Scientist Linley Dixon shares her thoughts on organic policy and the organic standards. Listen to the interview on Northern Spirit Radio below. Real Organics Northern Spirit Radio by Mark Helpsmeet Linley Dixon is senior scientist of the staff of The Cornucopia Institute, our leading organic standards watchdog & advocate. With a masters degree… Read more »
Summary of NOSB Votes on Petitions, Sunset Materials
by Linley Dixon, PhD Linley Dixon, PhD addresses the NOSB A clear message that The Cornucopia Institute, and other organic stakeholders, are pushing the NOSB to act more conservatively was evident in the votes to remove three 2016 sunset toxic boiler additives: cyclohexylamine, diethylaminoethanol, and octadecylamine. The NOSB also voted to reject the petition to… Read more »
Cornucopia to Report Live from DC NOSB Meeting Next Week
Mark Kastel Dr. Linley Dixon Cornucopia codirector Mark Kastel and lead scientist Dr. Linley Dixon will report live from the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in Washington, D.C. You can get the play-by-play on Twitter or on our website for the three-day meeting that starts Monday, April 25. The NOSB meets twice yearly to… Read more »
Trump/Perdue Draining the Swamp at the USDA?
[Read Cornucopia’s letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue.] Trump/Perdue Draining the Swamp at the USDA? In an expression of “profound disappointment,” the nation’s most aggressive organic industry watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, today sent a letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue criticizing the department’s rejection of guidance from its expert advisory panel. The National Organic Standards… Read more »
Mark Kastel & Dr. Linley Dixon Live from the NOSB Meeting
Facebook Mark Kastel, Co-Director of The Cornucopia Institute, and Dr. Linley Dixon, lead scientist at Cornucopia, broadcast live from the NOSB meeting in St. Louis. They offer highlights from the three-day meeting, including the removal of carrageenan from the National List.
#riseyoungfarmer
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia Senior Scientist Linley Dixon, PhD responded to an editorial in The New Food Economy last week, shared below. Reader response: Young farmers are a real, diverse, and growing movement in agriculture. The numbers just don’t show it The New Food Economy by Linley Dixon, PhD Linley Dixon, PhD Editor’s note: The response… Read more »
‘Add-on Labels’ Designed to Show Which Farmers Employ the Spirit of Organic
Cornucopia’s Take: Continued frustration with the USDA’s watering down of organic standards and the lack of enforcement against giant scofflaws has spurred interest in an alternative food labels. We too believe that we have devolved into two organic labels. Cornucopia remains neutral on other labels, so that we can impartially evaluate them while we work to… Read more »
A Response to The Wall Street Journal article: “Organic Farming Is Not Sustainable”
Linley Dixon, PhD Cornucopia Farm Policy Analyst The Wall Street Journal opinion piece “Organic Farming Is Not Sustainable” published May 15, 2014 by Dr. Henry Miller misrepresents the industry and is riddled with factual inaccuracies. Dr. Miller attempts to discredit organic agriculture’s environmental benefits on the basis of pesticide use, lower yields, groundwater contamination, and… Read more »
