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October 19, 2018

Fall 2018 NOSB Meeting – Webinar: Thursday, October 18, 2018

Cornucopia staff members attended the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) pre-meeting webinar today, where the NOSB heard comments from the public. Cornucopia’s notes from this ...

October 17, 2018

Fall 2018 NOSB Meeting – Webinar: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

A Cornucopia staff member attended the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) pre-meeting webinar yesterday, where the NOSB heard comments from the public. Cornucopia’s notes from ...

October 15, 2018

Organic Consumers Have New Weapon to Fight Fraudulent Imports

Buyer’s Guide Highlights Brands Sourcing Exclusively from U.S. Farms In response to consumer concerns after published reports of fraudulent organic grain imports flooding the American ...

October 3, 2018

“Fauxganic” Takeover in Full Swing

Finding and Protecting Real Organic Food Going Forward [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Linley ...

September 25, 2018

New Report Echoes Concerns of Deceptive Marketing in Snack Bar Industry

Separating Misleading Nutrition Claims from Nutrient Dense Brands Last December, The Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit food and farm policy group, released a comprehensive report and ...

September 18, 2018

Conventional Models Meet Organic Practices

Preserving Family-scale Grain Farming [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Anne Ross, JD Farm and ...

August 28, 2018

County Line Farms in Texas has the Gall to Market Itself as “Organic Milk for the Soul”

Cornucopia has conducted flyover investigations of numerous “organic” dairies over the years, including Boehning Dairy and Hilltop Dairy. Brian Boehning is the president of these ...

August 8, 2018

USDA-Backed “Factory Farm” Takeover of Organic Milk Production Crushing Family-Scale Farmers and Forcing Them Out of Business

Newly Released Report, and Associated Organic Dairy Brand Scorecard, Enables Defrauded Consumers and Wholesale Buyers to “Vote with Their Pocketbooks” When commercialized in the 1980s, ...

July 17, 2018

Organic Industry Watchdog Response to USDA on Import Fraud

[Read the USDA’s Office of Inspector General review of the NOP’s oversight of imports.] The USDA’s National Organic Program, under increasing criticism regarding wholesale fraud ...

July 11, 2018

Trader Joe’s to Change Misleading Images on Cage-Free Eggs

Earlier this year, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed suit against Trader Joe’s for misleading images on cartons of cage-free eggs. The images show chickens ...

July 11, 2018

Cornucopia De-Codes Egg Labels

Egg cartons are increasingly cluttered with third-party certification claims and a myriad of potentially misleading statements. Some of these are meaningful to egg buyers, and ...

July 10, 2018

Organic Industry Watchdog Asks Federal Antitrust Regulators to Monitor the Sale of Hain Pure Protein

[Read Cornucopia’s formal request for scrutiny of the sale of HPP] Poultry Industry Giant Pilgrim’s Pride Makes Preliminary Bid to Acquire Hain Celestial Poultry Processing ...