Washington Post By Barbara Damrosch Hydroponic gardening could not be more different from organic gardening if it tried. Maybe you’ve seen a hydroponic greenhouse operation, ...
The New York Times by Mark Bittman The relatively new notion that around a third or more of the world’s population is badly (“mal”) nourished ...
Grist by Tom Philpott Before I respond to Nathanael Johnson’s assertion that the “stakes are so low” in the debate over GMOs, I want to ...
National Organic Coalition National Organic Certification Cost Share (NOCCS) is a top item for Farm Bill Conference. The House Bill repeals Certification Cost Share and ...
New York Times By Mark Bittman That “good” news you may have read last week about the Food and Drug Administration’s curbing antibiotics in animal ...
New England Journal of Medicine By Aidan Hollis, Ph.D., and Ziana Ahmed, B.A.Sc. Antimicrobial resistance is a critical threat to public health. The value of ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Dr. M. Jahi Chappell The comment period recently closed on the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan ...
Massive corporate consolidation continues in the organic sector (Commentary by the Cornucopia Institute’s Mark Kastel) WhiteWave CEO, and former Dean Foods CEO, Gregg Engles knows ...
New York Times Sunday Review By Jim Robbins ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some ...
Food Safety News By Daniel B. Cohen The deadline for comments on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Produce Safety Rule is Nov. 15, 2013. ...
Protecting and improving the health of soil is even more important today than it ever has been, says the Soil Association’s Helen Browning, especially coupled ...
Food Safety News By Michele Simon With the disappointing results now in from I-522, the initiative in Washington state that would have required labeling of ...
