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April 30, 2012

Scientists Cry Fowl Over the FDA’s Regulatory Failure

Overuse of antibiotics in factory farming kills thousands every year, yet the industry is force-feeding chickens pharmaceuticals The Guardian (UK) by Richard Schiffman In 2005, ...

April 30, 2012

Hold onto Your Wallets – Organic Industry Checkoff Being Pushed by OTA and an Agribusiness-Friendly Congress

I’m not afraid of the government taking farmer’s money. I’m afraid of the government issuing a license to steal to the corporations that control the ...

April 25, 2012

Mad Cow California: Stop Weaning Calves on Cattle Blood

[As noted in an earlier post, organic farmers are legally prohibited from feeding animal byproducts to livestock. This is the accepted pathway for the prion ...

April 25, 2012

Dow Weed Killer, Nearing Approval, Runs Into Opposition

The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK To Jody Herr, it was a telltale sign that one of his tomato fields had been poisoned by ...

April 24, 2012

Mad Cow Disease Found in California; USDA Says No Human Threat

[Don’t panic. Go organic! Organic farmers are legally prohibited from feeding animal byproducts to livestock. This is the accepted pathway for the prion disease in ...

April 23, 2012

Coalition Demands Probe on Dow & Monsanto GMOs & Pesticides

Digital Journal By Anne Sewell Farmers and food industry representatives are demanding a probe into the potential outcome of a new genetically modified crop in ...

April 23, 2012

Bacteria Talk, Plants Listen: The Discovery of Plant Immune Receptors, an Interview with Pamela Ronald

Scientific American By Holly Summers A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. ...

April 20, 2012

Monsanto Bt Crops: Genetically Modified Corn Linked To Soil Ecosystem Threat

International Business Times By Ryan Villarreal Bioengineering agricultural giant Monsanto has touted the safety of genetically modified crops, but a new study has found that ...

April 20, 2012

Organic Cotton Production Dips 35%, New Textile Exchange Report Highlights

PR Web Textile Exchange (TE) launches their sixth Farm & Fiber report giving an update on the organic production worldwide. Lubbock, TX — Momentum to ...

April 19, 2012

If the Food’s in Plastic, What’s in the Food?

The Washington Post By Susan Freinkel In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on ...

April 17, 2012

Study Links Autism With Industrial Food, Environment

New research models real-world exposures to environmental cause of autism Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy By Katie Rojas-Jahn and Renee Dufault, FIHRI Minneapolis — ...

April 16, 2012

Worm Waste is Black Gold for Local Businessman

The Portland Press Herald (Maine) By Mechele Cooper, Staff Writer BELGRADE — Jonathan Dyer enjoys introducing visitors to the slithering creatures in his basement. The ...