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November 14, 2018

Arkansas Reapproves Dicamba Use Through 2020

Cornucopia’s Take: Two critics of dicamba use on the Arkansas Plant Board have been replaced by appointees who favor the use of dicamba later into ...

November 12, 2018

Will Wisconsin’s New Governor Address the Dairy Crisis?

Cornucopia’s Take: As a national farm policy group, we don’t universally track state and local political issues. But in the prime organic agricultural production states, ...

November 12, 2018

Organic Pork Remains Largely Out of Consumer Reach

Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional pork producers pen their hogs in overcrowded barns, spray them with pesticides, provide the cheapest feed available, and store their considerable manure ...

November 9, 2018

Stop Agribusiness Mergers: 200+ Advocacy Groups Seek Congressional Support for Introduced Legislation

Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia was among the 213 farm, food, rural, faith and consumer advocacy organizations to seek Congressional support for a temporary halt to agribusiness ...

November 7, 2018

Judge in Landmark Roundup Cancer Case Reduced Awarded Damages and Denied Monsanto’s Appeal

Cornucopia’s Take: After consideration, Judge Bolanos opted not to grant Monsanto a new trial regarding DeWayne Johnson’s allegations that their product, Roundup, caused his cancer. ...

November 6, 2018

Unregulated GMOs Hiding in the Food Supply

Cornucopia’s Take: The USDA has determined that no regulation is needed for food genetically engineered using new technologies like CRISPR. Even after the proposed GMO ...

November 6, 2018

Rural Water Across America Poisoned by Agricultural Runoff

Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional and GMO crop farming and concentrated animal feeding operations create runoff of excess pesticides and fertilizers into watersheds and, ultimately, wells in ...

November 5, 2018

Experts Call for EPA Ban on Organophosphate Pesticides

Cornucopia’s Take: Organophosphate pesticides are the most commonly used insecticides in conventional agriculture and were initially developed as a nerve gas. Extremely effective, even very ...

October 24, 2018

New Study: Organic Diet Lowers Cancer Risk

Cornucopia’s Take: A new French study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who reported eating more organic food were 25% less likely to ...

October 19, 2018

Seven Artificial Flavors Banned by FDA in Response to Lawsuit

Cornucopia’s Take: “Artificial flavors” in ingredient listings on conventional food packaging are a motley crew of synthetic chemicals that processors do not have to name ...

October 18, 2018

Nebraska Farmers Caught, as Part of a Wider Conspiracy, Selling GMO Grain as Organic

Cornucopia’s Take: These farmers and their accomplices who marketed and sold the GMO grain as organic, over eight years, were thankfully caught and are on ...

October 12, 2018

Ex-Monsanto Scientist Decries the Potatoes He Bioengineered for Simplot

Cornucopia’s Take: Caius Rommens, PhD spent his career in bioengineering with Monsanto and JR Simplot. Encouraged by other industry scientists and the companies he worked ...