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November 19, 2014

New Report Criticizes Yogurt Industry

Major Brands Accused of Turning Health Food into Junk Food A new report, Culture Wars: How the Food Giants Turned Yogurt, a Health Food, into ...

November 14, 2014

Update: Oregon’s Measure 92

Image Source: Martin Deutsch While the No side has been declared the winner, the Yes side is closing the gap as the final ballots trickle ...

October 22, 2014

Powerful Organic Trade/Lobby Group Recruiting Family Farmers

OTA/Corporate Interests Creating “Trojan Horse” to Soften Image, Increase Influence In a move that would look just as cynical as if General Motors decided to ...

October 16, 2014

Anemic National Organic Program Listening Session Ends Quickly

By Will Fantle The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) held the first of what they described as a series of listening sessions on the afternoon ...

October 9, 2014

Clarification: Cornucopia Independent Corporate/Governmental Watchdog Receives No State or Federal Funding

There is an Arab proverb that states, “When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet.” A ...

October 3, 2014

Nanomaterials in Organic Food? The USDA Is Looking the Other Way

[This story originally appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] by Pamela ...

September 18, 2014

Cornucopia: USDA Maintains Pattern of Corporate Appointments

Organic Governance Undermined by Cozy Relationship with Agribusiness Lobbyists One of the nation’s preeminent organic industry watchdogs, The Cornucopia Institute, expressed renewed criticism of the ...

August 29, 2014

Rebuttal of The Country Hen

The Real Chicken Poop On May 19, 2014 The Country Hen, a vertically integrated egg producer based in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, wrote a letter to a ...

August 19, 2014

NOSB Voting Scorecard Released – Lobbyists/Influence Peddlers Eroding Organic Standards

Analysis Illustrates USDA/Agribusiness Collusion CORNUCOPIA, WIS: A comprehensive voting analysis of members of the National Organic Standards Board, an expert body formed by Congress to ...

August 18, 2014

Stop Dow Chemical’s “Agent Orange” Crops

Over a hundred million additional pounds of toxic pesticides associated with cancers and birth defects are coming to a field near you. UNLESS YOU STOP ...

August 14, 2014

USDA Clips Wings of Misleading Organic Marketers

CORNUCOPIA, WIS: The USDA, today, announced to industry stakeholders that it would rein-in misleading language on organic packaging that all too often has been suspected ...

August 12, 2014

Cornucopia Elects New Policy Officers and Advisor

Wisconsin organic beef and produce farmer Helen Kees was elected board president at Cornucopia’s March 22 annual meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kees, a third ...