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June 20, 2007

The Organic Divide

Corporate Executives and Organic Community Hold “Dueling” Summits Below, please find an open letter from the participants in the Organic Community Summit. The letter grew ...

June 20, 2007

Keeping an Eye on Transgenic Crops

Rocky Mountain Outlook By David Suzuki Did you know that genetically modified, or “transgenic” crops are now commonplace on North American farms? According to a ...

June 14, 2007

Ethanol Booms, Farmers Bust

Alternet Lisa M. Hamilton From the news these days you’d think farmers have never had a better friend than ethanol. Headlines holler that corn prices ...

May 25, 2007

The Wal-Mart Effect on Food Safety

FoodProcessing.com By Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief “We’re rolling back prices — on food safety.” Two serious food contamination incidents have bowed the food industry ...

May 16, 2007

Organic Animal Agriculture Threatened by Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

by Jim Munsch The Cornucopia Institute By now many farmers producing organic milk or meat from ruminants have seen the news about the federal court ...

April 24, 2007

You Are What You Grow

The New York Times By Michael Pollan A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the ...

March 23, 2007

Filling Their Sales

If organic food is so popular, why are so few farms transitioning their land? Grist By Tom Philpott On a recent trip to Austin, I ...

February 13, 2007

A Wild Bird Chase

The Guardian by Peter Melchett All through the main bird migratory season last autumn, and during this winter, the U.K. government has been testing wild ...

February 5, 2007

Voting Beyond Our Forks

Attention shoppers: it’s going to take more than consciousness at the checkout line to fix our broken food system Whole Life Times By Christopher D. ...

February 5, 2007

Organics at a Crossroads in 2007

By Mark Alan Kastel Now that annual sales of organic food products have reached $16 to $17 billion, and increased marketplace demand is causing ramped-up ...

January 16, 2007

Amber Fields of Bland

The New York Times By Dan Barber Tarrytown, N.Y. THERE’S invariably something risky, if not risible, about allowing Congress to decide what’s for dinner. Bad ...

January 12, 2007

Is the National Animal Identification System Mandatory or Voluntary?

By Judith McGeary Numerous sources have reported that the National Animal Identification System, or NAIS, is voluntary. But is that really true? On November 22, ...