By Jill Ettinger It’s a fairytale story if ever there was one: budding, idealistic farmers meet in the high peaks of Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains and ...
Sparks really flew at the National Organic Standards Board meeting in Portland, Oregon yesterday. In one of the most contentious issues to come before the ...
USDA is deliberating these questions right now in Portland, OR Is the Use of This Material a Threat to Human Health? There is no debate ...
By Mark Kastel How sweet. DSM (the parent of Martek Biosciences) partners with our friends at Monsanto to bring you new novel life forms to ...
New York Times By Mark Bittman Genetic engineering in agriculture has disappointed many people who once had hopes for it. Excluding, of course, those who’ve ...
New York Times A COURT has struck down, at least for now, New York City’s attempt to slow the growth of obesity by limiting the ...
The Atlantic Cities By RomanGaus On an early June morning in 2010, I stood outside the Aquaponics research facility at the University of Applied Sciences, ...
Dear organic advocates, The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the governing board created by Congress that serves as a protective buffer and reviews all synthetic ...
By Jim Riddle If an organic check-off is implemented, I am concerned that organic agriculture could be forever relegated to a niche market status, when ...
Don’t believe the hype: GM is in the grip of a few firms that profit from selling the chemicals they engineer their seeds to resist ...
By Kevin Engelbert, Organic Dairy Farmer, Nichols, NY The basic premise of parity pricing is the belief that the selling price of a product or ...
Common Dreams By Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more ...
