Monsanto’s Caribbean experiment
El Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico) (link no longer available) Written by Eliván Martínez The largest producer of transgenic seeds in the world is leasing some of the best agricultural lands on the Island with a pattern of questionable legality, while receiving incentives from the Fortuño administration. When environmentalist Juan Rosario traveled to an […]
Pesticides Are Good for You
Big Food’s Co-optation of Nutrition Professionals Food Safety News by Michele Simon, Opinion For years now, I have been hearing about the food industry’s influence on the annual conference of the American Dietetic Association — the nation’s largest gathering of nutrition professionals–with some 7,000 registered dietitians in attendance. Last month, I witnessed it for myself […]
What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?
Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day. AlterNet / By Martha Rosenberg So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains–turkey, beef, chicken and pork–harbors […]
Research Proves Equal Yields, Higher Profits From Organic Farming
FreshPlaza.com Organic crop systems can provide similar yields and much higher economic returns than a conventional corn-soybean rotation, according to thirteen years of data from a side-by-side comparison at Iowa State University’s Neely-Kinyon Research and Demonstration Farm. The University’s Long-Term Agroecological Research Experiment (LTAR) began in 1998 with support from the Leopold Center for Sustainable […]
Future of Organic Food and Agriculture at Risk
Use of Synthetic Preservatives, Genetically Mutated Ingredients and Weak Animal Welfare Standards Headed for Vote by USDA Panel Cornucopia, WI—The Cornucopia Institute, one of the nation’s leading organic industry watchdogs, is urging members of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), in formal testimony, to vote to preserve the integrity of organic food and farming […]
Food Sleuth Radio
KOPN 89.5 FM Melinda Hemmelgam conducts two terrific interviews on Food Sleuth Radio. Greg Judy, a Missouri farmer and internationally know rotational grazing expert, describes the benefits of feeding livestock grass both for the environment and human nutrition. Click here to listen. Melinda Hemmelgam also interviews Iowa farmer George Naylor. The former President of the […]
Junk Food Can Hijack Brain Like Drugs Do, Experts Say
The Wichita Eagle (Kansas) By Robert Langreth and Duane D. Stanford A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks aren’t simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs. “The data is so overwhelming the […]
Action Alert: Protect Organics from Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms
[This Action Alert is Over] Sign and Mail Your Proxy Letter Protect Organics from Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms Please take a moment to print, sign and mail the proxy letter today! The organic label was founded on the idea that food should be produced in concert with nature, without dangerous chemicals and synthetic ingredients. […]
Supreme Court Tackles Conflicting Federal, State Laws on Animal Treatment
All Headline News Reporter: Tom Ramstack The Supreme Court’s justices seemed ready to overturn a California law intended to protect livestock from abuse after arguments by lawyers Wednesday. The dispute focuses on whether pigs should be euthanized when they are sick or injured at factory farms or merely inspected to ensure their meat will not […]
Resistance to Roundup is Increasing
Farmer’s Weekly Interactive by Louise Impey Weed resistance to glyphosate has increased fivefold since 2007 and is developing at a rate of one new weed species each year, William Reville of University College Cork told delegates at CropWorld. Ten weed species in the USA are now resistant to Roundup, he revealed, with a further 10 […]
Smuggled Honey Makes It To American Stores Under Cover Of ‘Ultra-Filtration’
The Huffington Post The next time you find yourself in the honey aisle of your grocery store, debating between a pricy premium, artisanal honey and the store-brand nectar contained in a plastic bear, you might want to think twice before choosing based on price. That’s because a searing investigation of the honey market by Food […]
Digging America, One Farm at a Time
Want a cheap trip cross country? Work your way as seasonal farm help. Charlotte Observer By Audrey Waggoner A year ago I was finishing up my undergraduate degree in International Studies at the University of South Carolina and trying to figure out just what I was going to do next. So when my boyfriend, Nick […]
