[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 Synthetic Materials Decision-Making Process By Will Fantle The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) stands accused of a power grab due to changing a fundamental decision-making process impacting organic food and agriculture. Miles… Read more »
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 Patents NEW YORK: Last week, the Public Patent Foundation filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al… Read more »
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 work investigating this controversial ingredient. If it’s in our food, it must be safe to eat, right? We can say that about countless ingredients that have been proven to be… Read more »
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) involve breastfeeding. It is a truly magical and priceless bonding experience. And for someone who loves good, “real” food as much as I do, there could be nothing more satisfying… Read more »
CSA in the USA: The Next Quarter Century
[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] Image Courtesy of Stonebridge Farm CSA Is the “C” in Community Supported Agriculture Slipping? By Steven McFadden By now we have well over 8,500 CSA farms in the USA, according to national databases. Community Supported Agriculture… Read more »
Saving Seed
[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] Image Courtesy of Matthew Goldfarb and Petra Page-Mann In the blink of the past 50 years, chemical corporations have come to control over 50% of the global seed supply. It’s a sharp departure from human history:… Read more »
Linley Dixon Joins Cornucopia Policy Staff
Cornucopia is pleased to welcome farmer and soil scientist Linley Dixon, PhD to our team as Food and Farm Policy Analyst. Linley owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado, with her husband Peter and 4-year-old daughter Raina. Prior to farming, she spent 15 years… Read more »
Cedar Summit Farm Third-Generation Dairy
[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] My Road to Organics Do you remember what sparked your decision to farm organically? Or to switch from heavily processed food to fresh, local, organic fare? Perhaps it was illness. Or concern for the environment… Read more »
Cornucopia Comments to USDA on GE Apple Proposal
The comment period for GE Apples has been extended to 11:59 P.M. ET on December 16. For more, please click here for our action alert. Docket No. APHIS–2012–0025 Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD APHIS, Station 3A–03.8 4700 River Road Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737–1238 December 9, 2013 The Cornucopia Institute is a 501(c)(3) public interest… Read more »
USDA Extends Comment Period on GMO Apple Through December 16
This Action Alert is Over. Contacted by Cornucopia staff, the USDA today confirmed that they have extended the comment period through Monday, December 16 on the controversial genetically engineered Arctic Apple®. The federal website comment portal had been experiencing availability problems and was cited as the reason for the extension. Okanagan Specialty Fruits has developed… Read more »
