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April 8, 2014

No Fences

By Elizabeth Wolf, Communications & Development Director, The Cornucopia Institute Image courtesy of Coonridge Dairy When Nancy Coonridge says she lives with her goat herd ...

March 28, 2014

What are the Legal Differences between Organic and ‘Natural’ Labels?

[NOTE: This is an excerpt from Cornucopia’s report: “Cereal Crimes: How “Natural” Claims Deceive Consumers and Undermine the Organic Label—A Look Down the Cereal and ...

March 26, 2014

Gut-Wrenching: New Studies Reveal the Insidious Effects of Glyphosate

By Pamela Coleman, PhD Farm and Food Policy Analyst The Cornucopia Institute Credit: Tim McCabe, USDA NRCS Glyphosate is the active ingredient in one of ...

March 14, 2014

Spring 2014 NOSB: Two Meetings in One

Usually the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meets twice a year. Last year, though, the fall meeting was canceled due to the partial government shutdown ...

March 14, 2014

Organic Check-off Proposal Gets OK in Farm Bill, Universally Panned by Farmers and Producer Groups

by Will Fantle, Codirector Credit: Capricorn78 The recent passage of the Farm Bill contains a provision allowing the USDA Secretary to propose establishment of an ...

March 11, 2014

How Organic are Organic Eggs?

Mark Kastel of The Cornucopia Institute and Jodi Koberinski of Organic Council of Ontario discuss organic eggs and whether they are all created equal on ...

March 7, 2014

Cornucopia Urges Rejection by USDA of New GMO 2,4-D Crops

[This comment period is over] Docket No. APHIS–2013–0042 Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD APHIS, Station 3A–03.8 4700 River Road Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737–1238 March ...

February 18, 2014

Appearance by Agribusiness Executive at Organic Conference Stirs Controversy

Dean Foods, WhiteWave, Accused of Damaging Farmers and Organic Reputation LA CROSSE, WIS: Regardless of the weather, the heat has been turned up at the ...

February 18, 2014

ACTION ALERT: Protect Organic/Non-GMO Farmers and the Purity of Our Food Supply

Comments Due March 4 Credit: USDA NRCS Organic and Non-GMO agriculture has shouldered the burden of GMO contamination for too long. This is our opportunity ...

February 14, 2014

Horizon “Organic” Factory Farm Accused of Improprieties, Again

Selective Enforcement by USDA Alleged — Kid Glove Treatment for Dean Foods/WhiteWave In an open letter published today and addressed to USDA National Organic Program ...

February 13, 2014

Who Owns Organic Now? New Info Graphic Tracks the Corporate Takeover of Organics…

Prominent Info Graphic Decoding Corporate Ownership in Organics Updated (click on the poster image above to view a quick loading larger version, and then click ...

February 13, 2014

Leading Organic Brand, Horizon, Blasted for Betraying Organics

Corporate Parent, WhiteWave, Announces Non-Organic Horizon Products WhiteWave Foods, the former branded products division of the dairy giant Dean Foods, announced today that they had ...