MeatPoultry.com by Bryan Salvage LOS ANGELES – A lawsuit was filed in the County of Los Angeles Superior Court of the State of California by Made in the USA Foundation Chairman, Joel Joseph against Trader Joe’s Company. Joseph is requesting an injunction against the company on allegations that Trader...
Oregon Live by Yuxing Zheng SALEM — GMO labeling supporters and opponents began trading barbs Wednesday even before supporters submitted an estimated 155,661 signatures in an attempt to qualify the initiative for the November ballot. The attacks offered a preview of each side’s talking points in what many political observers expect...
Organic Matters from NOFAVT on Vimeo. This beautiful video captures the care for the land and humanity inherent in true organic farming. It is a reminder that, where food is concerned, we certainly get what we pay for. Organic Matters reminds the viewer that what we eat and how it...
Down on the Farm with Tom Willey 4 July, 2014 at 5 p.m. KFCF, 88.1 FM Listen to the live stream California Climate and Agriculture Network’s Executive Director Renata Brillinger believes CalCAN to be the only US organization combining words “climate”...
Time by Dr. Alan Greene and Anna Lappé Just in case you’re undecided, we will make the case on why your kids should be eating organic Credit: theloushe A poll out last week from the Organic Trade Association found a sharp decrease in parents who say price is a key factor limiting their...
Friends of the Earth A new report from Friends of the Earth, Gardeners Beware 2014, details the high levels of bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides found in plants being sold as “bee-friendly” in garden centers around the United States. Press release: New tests find bee-killing pesticides in 51 percent of “bee-friendly” plants...
Regulations on pesticides have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, international team of scientists concludes The Guardian by Damian Carrington Systemic Insecticides Photograph: /Guim The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according...
We need your help (confidentially) to identify all current candidates for appointment to the National Organic Standards Board. Congress set up specific stakeholder representation on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to assure that corporations and their lobbyists do not dominate organic governance. However, the seats the law designates...
[NOTE: When the French scientist Gilles-Éric Séralini first published disturbing findings of cancer in rats fed GMO corn (in the peer-reviewed Food and Chemical Toxicology journal), the blowback from the biotechnology industry, and related scientists, was so intense that the journal, in a virtually unprecedented step, withdrew the article....
Modern Farmer by Dan Mitchell Credit: Abalg Last week’s big cheese scare came and went like a lightning bolt, but it left a few scorches behind. It all began when an FDA apparatchik, in what she must have thought was routine fashion, responded to a request for clarification on a the...
by Pamela Coleman, PhD Organic seed should be free of genetically engineered (GE) DNA, because organic regulations prohibit genetic engineering. Unfortunately, organic crops are threatened by inadvertent contamination from GE crops. In response to the threat, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) published a workbook, Protecting Organic Seed...
Lancaster Farming by Philip Gruber CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Trickling Springs Creamery, a modestly sized processor of organic and natural dairy products, exemplifies the rapid growth occurring in the organic milk market. From its retail store and plant in Chambersburg, the company, opened in 2001, distributes a variety of fluid milk...
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