From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars. Foreign Policy BY LESTER ...
Associated Press By ALEXA OLESEN BEIJING (AP) — Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth ...
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund by Judith McGeary, Esq. The case against genetically modified (GM) crops has been growing for years. While there are no long-term ...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Over a billion tonnes squandered each year Rome – Roughly one third of the food produced in ...
The New York Times By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL AGUA AZUL, Honduras — A common Bible story says Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two ...
Wayne Post Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York Albany, N.Y. — A marketplace agreement advanced by USDA would give false assurances to consumers about ...
IB Times UK (link no longer available) Visit this company: www.wsu.edu PULLMAN, Wash – May 5, 2011 – A group of leading scientists, economists and ...
The Atlantic By Barry Estabrook Most people think farmers’ markets are more expensive than supermarkets—but studies don’t always support that conclusion. In fact, they’re often ...
Press Democrat (link no longer available) By ROBERT DIGITALE Should an organic chicken be allowed to scratch outside in the native earth? Federal farm experts ...
The Tennessean (link no longer available) Written by Ronnie Barron For The Times “Locally grown,” “organic” and “eat fresh” have become common buzz words in ...
Grist by Eliot Coleman Organic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the ...
The New York Times By CARL ZIMMER Correction Appended In the early 1900s, scientists discovered that each person belonged to one of four blood types. ...
