Family traditions eased transition to organic practices; pasture saves costs Capital Press By STEVE BROWN CURTIS, Wash. — Dairying organically means more than higher milk prices for farmer Maynard Mallonee. He loves the benefits of pasturing. “Cows on pasture are healthy cows. They last a lot longer,” he said, adding that one of his cows… Read more »
Too Soon? Kashi Launches Certified Organic Cereals Weeks After GMO Backlash
Organic Authority By Jill Ettinger Kellogg’s Kashi cereal division announced the launch of two new certified organic cereals on Tuesday: Simply Maize and Indigo Morning. The announcement comes just weeks after a photo condemning the cereal company for hidden genetically modified ingredients went viral on the Internet. Last year, The Cornucopia Institute, a public interest… Read more »
10,000 Germ Species Live In and On Healthy People
Associated Press By Lauran Neergaard WASHINGTON (AP) — They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut – enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds. Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can… Read more »
Dirtying Up Our Diets
New York Times By Jeff D. Leach Over 7,000 strong and growing, community farmers’ markets are being heralded as a panacea for what ails our sick nation. The smell of fresh, earthy goodness is the reason environmentalists approve of them, locavores can’t live without them, and the first lady has hitched her vegetable cart crusade… Read more »
How California’s GM Food Referendum May Change What America Eats
The vast majority of Americans want genetically modified food labelled. If California passes November’s ballot, they could get it The Guardian (UK) by Richard Schiffman Last month, nearly 1m signatures were delivered to county registrars throughout California calling for a referendum on the labeling of genetically engineered foods. If the measure, “The Right to Know… Read more »
Adventures of a Carolina Graduate by Sara Walker
Chapelboro.com, North Carolina (this link is no longer available) by Sara Walker Women at Work: A WWOOFing Experience For the past week, Chrissy, Coty and I have been “WWOOFing” in rural northwestern Italy, near Cessole, a town of maybe 100 inhabitants. WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) is a program that matches willing participants… Read more »
Antibiotics are Widely Used by U.S. Meat Industry
Consumer Reports Consumer Reports finds that shoppers have lots of ‘no antibiotics’ choices, but they have to learn how to decipher product labeling Many U.S. grocery stores now offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes even at below-average prices for all meats of that type, but shoppers must become… Read more »
Andrew Weil Says Parents Should be Outraged by USDA Baby Food Pesticide Tests
Examiner.com Kimberly Lord Stewart For the first time since the inception of its pesticide-testing program in 1991, USDA looked at pesticide residues on baby food. Department scientists analyzed about 190 samples each of prepared baby food consisting of green beans, pears and sweet potatoes. This week the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released findings on the… Read more »
Organic Industry Watchdog Challenges USDA’s Lack of Transparency
Flawed Appointments Have Led to Corrupt Oversight System WASHINGTON DC: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today formally announced it is seeking nominations for an opening on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), a 15-member panel set up by Congress responsible for approving all non-organic/synthetic materials in organics and recommending regulatory policy. Past appointments… Read more »
Woman Sues City Of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
NewsOne6 – Oklahoma Lori Fullbright TULSA, Oklahoma – A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose…. Read more »
