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April 27, 2011

Can Marketing Orders Improve Leafy Greens Safety?

Food Safety News by Gretchen Goetz In revising a plan that had been criticized by consumer groups and others, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

April 20, 2011

UGA Study Finds Salmonella Less Prevalent in Organic Chicken

Athens Banner-Herald By JOE VANHOOSE Organic chicken isn’t just healthier for you – it’s also safer, according to a new University of Georgia study. Salmonella ...

April 19, 2011

When Is a Hen Organic?

Organic Valley egg farm accused of keeping hens in factory conditions Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel By Karen Herzog A Wisconsin farmer-owned cooperative – the nation’s largest name-brand ...

April 14, 2011

States Look to Ban Efforts to Reveal Farm Abuse

The New York Times By A. G. SULZBERGER Undercover videos showing grainy, sometimes shocking images of sick or injured livestock have become a favorite tool ...

April 12, 2011

“Ecoterrorists” Fighting Toxic Sludge Demand Apology from Sewage Disposal Industry

Practice Explicitly Banned in Organics but Legal and Conventional Food Food Rights Network John Stauber, Senior Adviser, Food Rights Network Sally Brown and BioCycle Magazine, ...

April 11, 2011

GM Maize ‘Has Polluted Rivers Across the United States’

Independent.co.uk By Steve Connor, Science Editor An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the ...

March 18, 2011

Vermonters Protest Government Ban of Butter Making Classes

Citizens Shake their Cream into Butter at the State Legislature Food Politics by Guest Blogger, Jessica Bernier, Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty Our Butter Appreciation ...

March 18, 2011

Francis Thicke and Iowa’s Raw Milk Bill

Blog for Iowa by Paul Deaton Where can legislators across the political spectrum find common ground? It turns out on House File 394, the raw ...

March 17, 2011

New Food Dollar Reveals Farmers’ Small Share

Agriculture.com Cheryl Tevis The American farmers’ share of the food dollar is shrinking. A recently released report by USDA states that only 11.6% of every ...

March 17, 2011

A New Generation of Farmers – Young, Educated, Energetic

GoodFood World Staff When you were 5, what did you want to be when you grew up? A fireman, a ballet dancer, a doctor? Maybe ...

March 14, 2011

Organic Chickens Have Lower Incidence of Salmonella

Scientists at the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety have published a paper comparing the incidence of Salmonella in organic chickens compared to conventional ...

March 14, 2011

The Dry Garden: Teaching Kids How to Grow Food the Farmscape Way

L.A. Times by Emily Green Most people, save Atlantic magazine’s resident contrarian Caitlin Flanagan, agree that school gardens are a good thing. They encourage experimentation, ...