To view the winners, click here. Real Food Media Project CONTACT: Joanna Dillon, Real Food Media Contest [email protected] 510-281-9023 Haven Bourque, HavenBMedia [email protected] 415-505-3473 REAL FOOD MEDIA PROJECT ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF FIRST-EVER FOOD AND FARMING FILM COMPETITION Revival of Community, Pride in Farming and Respect for Labor at the Heart of Sustainable...
Docket No. APHIS–2013–0042 Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD APHIS, Station 3A–03.8 4700 River Road Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737–1238 March 5, 2014 The Cornucopia Institute is a 501(c)(3) public interest organization engaged in farm and food policy research and education. We are proud to...
MPR News by Elizabeth Dunbar A group of Minnesota beekeepers on Wednesday asked state agriculture officials to suspend the use of corn seeds treated with certain pesticides. The petition signed by 40 beekeepers blames neonicotinoid pesticides for killing honeybees. Currently, Minnesota farmers only have access to seeds treated with...
The Salt on NPR by Dan Charles It’s easy to think of “organic” and “non-GMO” as the best buddies of food. They sit comfortably beside each other in the same grocery stores — most prominently, in Whole Foods Market. Culturally, they also seem to occupy the same space. Both...
EcoNews by EcoWatch The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will finalize its comment period this week on the feasibility of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and non-GMO crops to coexist. Today, to highlight prevalent problems that already exist, Food & Water Watch in partnership with theOrganic Farmers’ Agency for Relationship Marketing (OFARM) released...
The New York Times by Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle FRESNO, Calif. — EVERY Saturday in late December and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed in from family in Vermont, New York and even southern Louisiana, we made weekly pilgrimages to our local beer...
GreenMedInfo by Sayer Ji The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathing… A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online...
Examiner.com Marketing chips and other processed snack foods, sodas, and sugary GMO cereals to registered dietitians is part of big business. Registered dietitians have to keep taking continuing education courses to keep their licenses. So who’s offering a lot of the required continuing education seminars? It’s not organic produce...
New bill provides greater clarity than Proposition 37, giving Californians the right to know what’s in their food and how it’s grown Biosafety Alliance Paul Towers and Stacy Malkan California state senator Noreen Evans Sacramento, Calif – Answering the call for greater transparency and choices in the food system,...
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows for hamburger meat. Food & Environment Reporting Network By Kristina Johnson Credit: USDA NRCS San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo’s business has dried up—literally. Because of the...
NeedToKnowMARYLAND By Kimberly Hartke Annapolis Maryland—The Maryland General Assembly will hold hearings on legislation (HB 1191/ SB0778) that would require food manufacturers to label foods containing Genetically Modified organisms (GMOs). The legislation, introduced by Delegate Ariana Kelly on the House side and Senator Karen Montgomery in the Senate, gives...
Washington Post By Barbara Damrosch Hydroponic gardening could not be more different from organic gardening if it tried. Maybe you’ve seen a hydroponic greenhouse operation, or a home gardener’s kit, in which plant roots are bathed in a solution of chemical fertilizers but never come into contact with any...
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