Vermont Digger by Dave Rogers Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Dave Rogers, policy adviser for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT). By ...
The Atlantic By Ari LeVaux The real dispute is over valid but competing priorities. On April 23, the science journal Nature published a paper titled ...
Neither debate nor dictum have stopped bankers betting on the world’s food supply, leaving criminalisation as the only option The Guardian by Frederick Kaufman Recent ...
[Don’t panic. Go organic! Organic farmers are legally prohibited from feeding animal byproducts to livestock. This is the accepted pathway for the prion disease in ...
The New York Times By Nicholas D Kristof Let’s hope you’re not reading this column while munching on a chicken sandwich. That’s because my topic ...
The New York Times, Opinion By MARK BITTMAN The oldest and most common dig against organic agriculture is that it cannot feed the world’s citizens; ...
Environmental Working Group – Agriculture Posted by Kari Hamerschlag For too long, funding provided by the United States’ most far-reaching food and farm legislation has ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Jay Feldman “First do no harm,” a concept central to medical ethics, is important in an age when indicators of agricultural ...
The Atlantic By Barry Estabrook The USDA keeps a list of inorganic products that can legally go into foods labeled organic, but new board members ...
PEW Charitable Trusts Much of the pollution in U.S. rivers and streams today comes from improperly handled manure generated by CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), ...
Big Food’s Co-optation of Nutrition Professionals Food Safety News by Michele Simon, Opinion For years now, I have been hearing about the food industry’s influence ...
The Nation Vandana Shiva We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding ...
