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October 31, 2017

Glyphosate Use as Desiccant Doubles Human Contamination

Cornucopia’s Take: The industry has long disputed the use of glyphosate as a desiccant, or tried to excuse its use. It is now becoming common ...

October 30, 2017

Golden Rice Flops

Cornucopia’s Take: Virtually all of the genetically modified cultivars commercially available provide different advantages to conventional farmers (like being able to spray a crop with ...

October 27, 2017

Monsanto Tries to Hush Weed Scientists Telling the Truth About Dicamba

Cornucopia’s Take: With Monsanto’s dicamba-based GMO seed line already on the market, scientists finally have the opportunity to test the new formulation for volatility. Monsanto ...

October 25, 2017

Researchers Find European Soils Contain Glyphosate

Cornucopia’s Take: Almost half of the samples of arable European land taken in this study contained the most toxic metabolite of glyphosate. It has previously ...

October 25, 2017

European Parliament Bans Glyphosate – For Now

Cornucopia’s Take: Despite Monsanto’s continued attempts to influence European Union (EU) policies on glyphosate, the European Parliament voted this week to ban glyphosate for household ...

October 24, 2017

Monsanto Sues Arkansas Plant Board Over Dicamba Ban

Cornucopia’s Take: The Arkansas Plant Board recently banned the use of dicamba in the state because of the damage being done to farm fields from ...

October 24, 2017

Office of Inspector General Finds NOP’s Import Controls Lacking

Cornucopia’s Take: The Office of the Inspector General released their audit of the National Organic Program (NOP) in September. They found that the NOP’s controls ...

October 23, 2017

Ben & Jerry’s to Go Glyphosate-Free, But Not Organic

Cornucopia’s Take: While Ben & Jerry’s is planning to stop using ingredients made with crops that have been desiccated with glyphosate, it changes nothing about ...

October 23, 2017

Bipartisan ‘Local FARMS Act’ Introduced in Congress

Cornucopia’s Take: The Local FARMS Act was written with the help of several nonprofits, including the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, in order to support the ...

October 18, 2017

U.S. Certified Organic Agricultural Production Up 23 Percent in 2016

Cornucopia’s Take: Consumer’s hunger for good food produced with more meaning continues to grow. 2016 Sales of U.S. Certified Organic Agricultural Production Up 23 Percent ...

October 18, 2017

Pruitt’s EPA Considering Dicamba Ban

Cornucopia’s Take: According to the article below, 3.5% of all soybeans planted in the U.S. were harmed by dicamba this season. The harvest is not ...

October 16, 2017

‘Regenerative Organic’ Label Coming Soon

Cornucopia’s Take: In response to the co-option of the word “sustainable” and the increasing threats to the integrity of the organic label, Rodale and a ...