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August 6, 2009

Non-Organic Organic Food

CommonDreams.org by Jim Hightower When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating ...

July 31, 2009

Organic Food Is All That, and More. Just Eat It.

Huffington Post Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute Good news! You can rest assured that the organic food you bought today is every bit ...

June 19, 2009

NAIS Should be Fixed or Forgotten

FarmandDairy.com By Alan Guebert Four days before the seventh and final “listening session” June 1 to gather producer comments on NAIS, the National Animal Identification ...

May 22, 2009

Genetically Modified Foods Pose Huge Health Risk

By Institute for Responsible Technology LOS ANGELES — This week, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the ...

May 4, 2009

Thicke Forms Exploratory Committee for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture

As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity The Cornucopia Institute is stridently nonpartisan and does not take positions in electoral races. However, we wanted to make ...

April 28, 2009

The Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry’s Monstrous Power

Mexico swine flu outbreak should alert us to a highly globalized industry with global political clout Mike Davis guardian.co.uk The Mexican swine flu, a genetic ...

April 21, 2009

Paint It Green with Recycled, Phony Rhetoric

Market researchers seem to have decided that promoting the “green” attributes of your company or products will resonate with consumers. There was certainly an overabundance ...

March 16, 2009

The City that Ended Hunger

A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. Yes! Magazine by Frances Moore Lappe ...

January 29, 2009

USDA Secretary Nominee Causes Dustup in Organic Industry

Obama Administration Challenged to Clean up Bush’s Organic Mess Mark Kastel The Cornucopia Institute While former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack testified before Congress during confirmation ...

January 26, 2009

Agriculture Does Not Need ‘Business as Usual’

Chicago Tribune (link no longer available) George Naylor, National Family Farm Coalition I’m sorely disappointed in George McGovern and Marshall Matz’s disturbing commentary piece, “Agriculture’s ...

January 6, 2009

A 50-Year Farm Bill

New York Times By WES JACKSON and WENDELL BERRY The extraordinary rainstorms last June caused catastrophic soil erosion in the grain lands of Iowa, where ...

December 31, 2008

A Change We Can Believe In – Dumping Industrial Agriculture

CommonDreams.org by Jim Goodman As 2009 approaches, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. ...