Cornucopia’s Take: At levels found in drinking water within a mile of fracking operations, the chemicals used to extract oil and gas disrupt the endocrine ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Germany’s ex-minister of agriculture Christian Schmidt played a major role in the recent re-licensure of glyphosate in the European Union, despite the German ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Spectroscopy offers hope for truly organic dairy farmers. It provides a fast and inexpensive way to show, scientifically, whether milk comes from cows ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Twenty-three million conventional hogs are currently kept in confinement in Iowa. Massive lagoons of manure and chemicals on those operations leech into the ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Strips of planted wildflowers in fields encourage insect predators of crop pests, allowing farmers to spray less pesticide. These type of practices are ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Seafood Watch has published a Seafood Slavery Risk Tool to help corporate seafood buyers determine which fisheries are at higher risk for human ...
Cornucopia’s Take: A recent study found controversial neonicotinoid insecticides in tributaries of the Great Lakes system. Neonicotinoids are harmful to wildlife and are linked to ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The federal law that created ‘USDA Organic’ states that organic farming operations must submit organic plans containing “provisions designed to foster soil fertility.” ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The Montana Organic Association‘s (MOA) mission is to advocate and promote organic agriculture for the highest good of the people, the environment and ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Organic tomato farmer Dave Chapman discusses the co-evolution of fungi and plants in the soil, the corporate profit motive that is changing organic ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Newsweek has recently posted a sensational article, “The Campaign for Organic Food is a Deceitful, Expensive Scam,” by the infamous Dr. Henry I. ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The story below highlights the possibilities for curbing food waste when consumers have access to less-than-perfect food that typically never makes it to ...
