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December 20, 2011

Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg

The Daily Mail – UK By Vincent Graff Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside ...

December 19, 2011

Monsanto Spent $2 Million Lobbying Gov’t in 3Q

Business Week WASHINGTON — Monsanto Co. spent $2 million in the third quarter to lobby the federal government on issues including regulations for genetically engineered ...

December 9, 2011

Veterans Sowing Seeds of Farming Success

USA Today By Jens Manuel Krogstad, The Des Moines Register With help from a growing national network of farmer support groups, the 26-year-old Albers plans ...

December 9, 2011

Aroostook Farmer the Face of Organic Growers’ Fight Against Monsanto

[NOTE: The Cornucopia Institute is also part of the lawsuit challenging Monsanto’s patenting of life.] Bangor Daily News By Kathrynn Ohmstead I have wanted to ...

December 7, 2011

Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Corn Falsely Labeled as Organic

U.S. Department of Justice Defendant Sold 4.2 Million Pounds of Conventional Corn Falsely Labeled As Organic Eugene, Ore. – Harold Chase, 54, of Springfield, Oregon, ...

December 2, 2011

USDA Appoints New Members to the National Organic Standards Board

Agricultural Marketing Service – USDA Soo Kim WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2011 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture appointed five new members to the National Organic ...

November 29, 2011

Monsanto’s Caribbean experiment

El Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico) (link no longer available) Written by Eliván Martínez The largest producer of transgenic seeds in the world is ...

November 23, 2011

What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?

Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day. AlterNet / By Martha Rosenberg So far, 2011 has ...

November 22, 2011

Research Proves Equal Yields, Higher Profits From Organic Farming

FreshPlaza.com Organic crop systems can provide similar yields and much higher economic returns than a conventional corn-soybean rotation, according to thirteen years of data from ...

November 12, 2011

Junk Food Can Hijack Brain Like Drugs Do, Experts Say

The Wichita Eagle (Kansas) By Robert Langreth and Duane D. Stanford A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that ...

November 9, 2011

Supreme Court Tackles Conflicting Federal, State Laws on Animal Treatment

All Headline News Reporter: Tom Ramstack The Supreme Court’s justices seemed ready to overturn a California law intended to protect livestock from abuse after arguments ...

November 9, 2011

Resistance to Roundup is Increasing

Farmer’s Weekly Interactive by Louise Impey Weed resistance to glyphosate has increased fivefold since 2007 and is developing at a rate of one new weed ...