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July 23, 2010

Bee Heaven owner: Organic farming is good for the foodie — and the land

Miami Herald By Ana Veciana-Suarez On a muggy summer day, as bruised clouds gather overhead, Margie Pikarsky wends her way through her five-acre farm pointing ...

July 21, 2010

Farming the Future

We’ve been waiting 32 years for the state to map and protect Hawai‘i’s Important Agricultural Lands. The moment may be at hand. Honolulu Weekly By ...

July 20, 2010

Meat With Antibiotics Off the Menu at Some Hospitals

Concerned about drug-resistant pathogens, medical professionals push to limit antibiotic use in animal farming The Chicago Tribune By Monica Eng The evening’s menu featured grass-fed, ...

July 16, 2010

Field Report: A Michigan Teen Farms Her Backyard

New York Times By CHRISTINE MUHLKE Lawn mowing and baby-sitting are standard summer jobs for the enterprising teenager. Alexandra Reau, who is 14, combines a ...

July 16, 2010

Antibiotics in Livestock Affect Humans, USDA Testifies

Des Moines Register (link no longer available) By PHILIP BRASHER There is a clear link between the use of antibiotics in livestock and drug resistance ...

July 15, 2010

Physicians, Nurses, Clinicians, Hospitals Ask Congress to Enact Legislation Prohibiting Non-therapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Animal Production

Requests Come on Eve of Congressional Hearing on Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture Health Care Without Harm PR Newswire WASHINGTON– More than 1000 physicians and ...

July 14, 2010

A Life Engulfed by Pesticides

The Atlantic by Barry Estabrook — Barry Estabrook was formerly a contributing editor at Gourmet magazine. Stints working on a dairy farm and commercial fishing ...

July 12, 2010

Produce Safety Bill May Make Farmer’s Markets A Thing Of The Past

The Raleigh Telegram By Olivia Barrow RALEIGH – With the U.S. Senate preparing to overhaul the nation’s food safety laws through a bill that passed ...

July 11, 2010

The New Frontier: Genetically Modified Oil Wars

GMO Journal Consumer Beware: the next generation of biotech crops focus directly on you. Unlike most of GM crops currently on the market, which are ...

July 11, 2010

Saving the World, One Morsel At a Time

Wausau native pens book, promotes sustainable food practices Wausau Daily Herald Keith Uhlig Many people become immersed in the organic food movement because they are ...

July 9, 2010

Calif. Aims to Boost Enforcement of Organic Rules

Capital Press (link no longer available) ROBIN HINDERY, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It’s been barely a year since Luis Miranda began selling organic ...

July 9, 2010

Safeway Pulls Plug on Mock Farmers’ Market

Triple Pundit.com Leon Kaye In a doomed marketing move that some would find cheeky and others, deceitful, a Safeway store in Kirkland, Washington, decided to ...