Indoor Urban Farms Called Wasteful, ‘Pie in the Sky’

Cornell Chronicle by Stacey Shackford It seems a sensible solution to urban space constraints and a desire for increased local food production: transform abandoned warehouses into indoor farms, or construct purpose-built vertical food factories. But Louis Albright, an emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering who helped pioneer controlled-environment agriculture, warns that these “high in… Read more »

HuffPost – The Blog by Julie Ann Fineman Co-Authored with Lee Glenn Source: Allstar Organics Every Saturday of the year, the San Francisco Ferry Building is alive with a magnificent farmers’ market. Camped in with the veggie, fruit, meat, fish, bread, flowers, food and coffee vendors is CUESA, the organization that manages the market. At… Read more »

[Mitch Blumenthal, one of the farmers interviewed in the video below, serves on The Cornucopia Institute’s board of directors.] YouTube by USDAAMS Why Get Certified? Organic Growers Share Their Perspectives

Center for Food Safety Center for Food Safety to File Lawsuit Challenging “Dangerous and Unlawful” Decision Source: Daniel Voglesong WASHINGTON, DC (November 19, 2015) – Center for Food Safety today announced plans to sue the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to block the agency’s approval for sale and consumption of the genetically engineered AquaAdvantage® salmon developed… Read more »

[For the full article, including all graphics and figures, click here.] Source: Martin LaBar Plos One by Carolina Mengoni Goñalons and Walter Marcelo Farina Materials and Methods Study site and animals The study was carried out during the summer-autumn seasons of 2012 to 2014 in the experimental field of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of… Read more »

Beyond Pesticides Source: Tim Lang Exposure to organochlorine chemicals, such as DDE and PCBs, is linked to increased rates of sperm abnormalities that may lead to fertility problems, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. This is the latest study in a long line of research implicating endocrine (hormone)-disrupting chemicals… Read more »

EcoWatch by Cole Mellino “Sometimes, you think ‘oh everyone is getting into farming, it’s the cool thing to do now.’ But actually that’s not true at all. No one’s getting into farming,” says one of the young farmers in the video. Despite how trendy eating locally has become and despite the rise in the number… Read more »

Consumer Reports Factory Farmed Turkeys Source: Becca James Organic Turkeys Source: David Duran Still deciding whether to buy an organic turkey or a conventionally raised turkey for Thanksgiving this year? Here’s one more reason to consider going organic: Turkeys labeled organic are raised without antibiotics, and the overuse of those drugs in raising farm animals is… Read more »

U.S. News & World Report by Robert Preidt Source: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project Overuse of antibiotics in farm animals poses a real health risk to children, the American Academy of Pediatrics warns in a new report. This common practice is already contributing to bacterial resistance to medicines and affecting doctors’ ability to treat life-threatening infections… Read more »

Pesticide Action Network – Europe Source: ThinkPanama PAN Europe is extremely disappointed with today’s European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) opinion concluding that glyphosate is not classified as a human carcinogen. Instead of doing an independent assessment on the pesticide, EFSA’s work is a copy of the German Government agency BfR’s assessment and the pesticide industry… Read more »