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March 12, 2015

Your Comments Needed: National List Too Long to Review Thoroughly

Source: CA2M By law, The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) must review every substance on the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List) ...

March 11, 2015

Is Hydroponics Organic?

[For more on this, read Cornucopia’s white paper The Organic Hydroponics Dichotomy: Can a Soil-less Growing System be “Organic”?] USDA’s Organic Program Allows Soil-less Practice ...

March 3, 2015

Biotech and Agribusinesses Spending Heavily to Defeat State GMO Food Labeling Votes

Final Infographic Spotlights Dueling Food Brands on Colorado and Oregon Initiatives For the third election cycle in a row, biotech corporations and large agribusinesses narrowly ...

February 25, 2015

Research Details Deluge of Spending by Opponents of GMO Labeling

Final Infographic Spotlights Dueling Food Brands on Colorado and Oregon Initiatives For the third election cycle in a row, biotech corporations and large agribusinesses narrowly ...

February 5, 2015

Leading Wisconsin Farm Group Rejects Industry-Led “Organic Check-off”

Grassroots Farmers Rebuff “Robin Hood in Reverse” Proposal from Corporate Lobby Group Wisconsin Farmers Union members overwhelmingly voted no on the proposed organic check-off program ...

January 12, 2015

Remembering Jerry Brunetti

Many people have been touched by Jerry Brunetti’s educational work on soil health and animal nutrition (and their impact on human health) over the years. ...

December 30, 2014

Tribally Supported Agriculture

By Melody Morrell It is likely you have heard of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), but how about Tribally Supported Agriculture (TSA)? The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux ...

December 19, 2014

Study Finds Higher Rates of Diabetes in Women Who Work With Certain Pesticides

by Rebecca Thistlethwaite Source: Jill Brown A recent article in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine (Starling AP, et al. Occup Environ Med 2014; O:1-7) ...

December 11, 2014

Investigation: “Factory Farms” Producing Massive Quantities of Organic Milk and Eggs

In what has been called one of the largest fraud investigations in the history of the organic industry, The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy ...

December 10, 2014

Twists and Turns Unfold in the Oregon GMO Food Labeling Ballot Initiative Recount

UPDATE: Judge Henry Kantor has rejected the Yes on 92 Campaign’s appeal to put a restraining order on the Secretary of State to prevent certification ...

December 5, 2014

Food Safety Petition and Action Alert

[This alert is over–comment period now closed] Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15 to FDA Please take action by ...

December 5, 2014

Action Alert — Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15

[This alert is over–comment period now closed] In response to recent widespread, and sometimes deadly, outbreaks of foodborne illness, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization ...