Inside this issue: LIVESTOCK/PASTURE RULE RELEASE COMING IN JANUARY? NOSB PUSHES FOR TIGHTER ANIMAL WELFARE REGULATION FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION NOW FOCUSING ON SENATE RAW ALMOND PASTEURIZATION CHALLENGE MOVING TO APPEAL OFF TARGET--MAJOR RETAILER ACCUSED OF ORGANIC IMPROPRIETIES GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS INCREASE HERBICIDE USE COURT FINDS USDA VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW MARK KASTEL NAMED TO LIST OF VISIONARIES CHANGING OUR WORLD

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Inside this issue: ORGANIC DAIRY FARMERS FIGHT FOR JUSTICE -- AND THEIR LIVELIHOODS NOSB VOTES ON SOY LECITHIN DE-LSTING NEW ORGANIC FARMING FUNDS AVAILABLE PASTURE/LIVESTOCK RULE UPDATE AND CHANGE @ USDA FARMERS NEEDED FOR NOSB POSITIONS RAW ALMOND FIGHT UPDATE

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America's Largest Corporate Dairy Processor Muscles Its Way into Organics Dean Foods Kills USDA Investigation of Their Horizon Label After a three-and-a-half year battle with Dean Foods regarding the legality of milk it labels as Horizon Organic, the country's most aggressive organic industry watchdog filed additional legal actions today. Dean, the nation's largest dairy processor, with nearly $12 billion in sales and controlling 50 different milk brands, has obtained a large percentage of its organic milk supply from giant factory farms milking thousands of cows each. The Cornucopia Institute filed a formal legal complaint in May with the USDA claiming that one of Dean's Horizon suppliers, a dairy in Snelling, California, was skirting the law by confining the majority of their cows to a filthy feedlot rather than allowing them fresh grass and access to pasture as the federal organic regulations require.

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