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December 15, 2008

Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What ...

November 25, 2008

Shoppers Pay While Food Processors Profit

Western Farm Press The release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October proves what too many Americans already have learned the hard way: input ...

October 30, 2008

Farmer in Chief

The New York Times Magazine By MICHAEL POLLAN Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much ...

October 18, 2008

McCain and Obama Need to Talk Real Farm Policy

OpEdNews.com by Jim Goodman John McCain and Barack Obama need to start talking farm policy. With less than a month before the November elections in ...

October 16, 2008

Comments on the 2009 Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Programs and WIC

by Charles Benbrook, PhD Chief Scientist The Organic Center These comments are submitted on behalf of The Organic Center, a nonprofit organization carrying out research ...

October 9, 2008

Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children

Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 116, Number 10, October 2008 An increasingly vast body of evidence shows that some chronic conditions such as birth defects, cancers, ...

October 7, 2008

Dispatch From NC: Notes On the Food Crisis

The Ethicurian by Elanor Starmer It’s been a whirlwind few days on the campus of North Carolina State University, where I attended “The Politics of ...

September 9, 2008

National Organic Program Is Undermining Materials Review Authority Granted to the NOSB to Help Define Organic and Guarantee Its Integrity

The Organic Broadcaster: By Roger Blobaum The authority Congress gave the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to help define organic and guarantee organic integrity is ...

September 2, 2008

Funds For Organic Certification Cost Assistance Available to Producers in 16 States

USDA Joan Shaffer The Agricultural Management Assistance Program, authorized by the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524), will allocate funds to the 16 states ...

August 19, 2008

Going Organic: Pioneering Spirit Alive and Well in Hidden Springs Community Farm — Community Focus

Idaho Business Review By Paul Hosefros and Roxanne Gail Beach The pioneer spirit of the Oregon Trail across Idaho seems well and alive in the ...

August 11, 2008

On Salmonella and Food: Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

NaturalNews Mike Adams Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged ...

August 5, 2008

Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod

NaturalNews by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep ...