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February 13, 2014

EPA Approves Exemption for Bt Residues in Soy Foods From GMO Crops

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule on February 12 creating an exemption for residue tolerance levels in soy foods and feed for ...

February 12, 2014

You Don’t Have to Eat Carrageenan: Finding Alternatives to a Toxic Food Additive

Carrageenan is a common food additive extracted from red seaweed. For the past four decades, scientists have warned that the use of carrageenan in food ...

February 3, 2014

Subterfuge: FDA’s Phase Out of Antibiotics for Animal Growth Purposes Ineffective — Will Disadvantage Small Farmers

On December 11, 2013 the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a guidance document that asks animal-drug makers to voluntarily discontinue marketing antibiotics to ...

January 29, 2014

WHITEWAVE WATCH: Former Dean Foods Subsidiary Sells Corporate-Owned Factory Dairy

When Dean Foods, the multinational dairy behemoth, purchased the Horizon brand in 2004 it included two industrial-scale dairy operations. This was an aberration in the ...

January 24, 2014

Rebecca Thistlethwaite Joins Cornucopia Policy Staff

Rebecca Thistlethwaite has spent the last 17 years involved with all facets of sustainable agriculture and the food chain: as a farmworker, food retailer, agricultural ...

January 24, 2014

Remembering John Kinsman, President of Family Farm Defenders

Organic dairy farmer and lifelong social-justice activist John Kinsman passed away January 20 on his family farm near Lime Ridge, Wisconsin. He was 87. A ...

January 17, 2014

Is Carrageenan Natural?

This article includes excerpts from the report: Carrageenan: How a Natural Food Additive is Making Us Sick Carrageenan is a common food additive that is ...

January 14, 2014

Supreme Court Denies Family Farmers the Right to Self-Defense from Monsanto Abuse

Refusal to Reinstate OSGATA et al v. Monsanto Prevents Farmers from Protecting Themselves Beyond Partial Court of Appeals Victory The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ...

January 2, 2014

USDA Power Grab

[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] National Organic Program Guts ...

December 26, 2013

Family Farmers vs. Monsanto

Organic Seed Growers, Family Farmers File Brief in Final Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Their Crops from Contamination and to Invalidate Monsanto’s GMO ...

December 20, 2013

Carrageenan: Risks and Reality

This article includes excerpts from the report: Carrageenan: How a Natural Food Additive is Making Us Sick. Read the report and the rest of Cornucopia’s ...

December 20, 2013

How To Find the Safest Organic Infant Formula

By Charlotte Vallaeys Some of my favorite memories of my sons as babies (which was not that long ago—they are 2 and 4 years old) ...