ABC News By Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows. That’s a problem even though bumblebees aren’t trucked from farm to farm like honeybees. They provide a significant chunk of the world’s...
IPS By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (IPS) – An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. Mirroring a...
Dean Foods, WhiteWave, Accused of Damaging Farmers and Organic Reputation LA CROSSE, WIS: Regardless of the weather, the heat has been turned up at the La Crosse Center, which will host the largest organic farming conference in the United States, starting February 27. A prominent organic industry watchdog, The...
Farmers in northern Poland are demanding the right to sell the food they produce in local shops, fighting oppressive sanitary regulations, picketing the Land Agency for access to prime farmland, and resisting GMOs. The Ecologist By Julian Rose & Jadwiga Lopata A fight-back by farmers is gathering momentum in...
Jack Hitt is a Peabody-winning American author. Michael Pollan is a Professor of Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. They have a conversation about cooking, eating and writing during a lecture from the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities.
Food Safety News By Dan Flynn Labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients might be a federal issue at some point, but the states are not done with it yet. Next month, two state capitals within easy earshot of the major media outlets – Albany, NY, and Annapolis, MD –...
Selective Enforcement by USDA Alleged — Kid Glove Treatment for Dean Foods/WhiteWave In an open letter published today and addressed to USDA National Organic Program chief Miles McEvoy, The Cornucopia Institute accused the regulatory agency of abdicating its enforcement responsibilities. Cornucopia, an organic industry watchdog, charged that the USDA...
Prominent Info Graphic Decoding Corporate Ownership in Organics Updated (click on the poster image above to view a quick loading larger version, and then click on it again for even larger detail) Download High Resolution PDF for printing purposes In 1995 there were 81 independent organic processing companies in the...
Corporate Parent, WhiteWave, Announces Non-Organic Horizon Products WhiteWave Foods, the former branded products division of the dairy giant Dean Foods, announced today that they had introduced non-organic grocery products under their Horizon label. Horizon Organic, primarily marketing dairy products, is the largest organic label in the marketplace and, up...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule on February 12 creating an exemption for residue tolerance levels in soy foods and feed for the biological pesticide Bt used in GMO crops. Similar exemptions have already been approved for corn and cotton food and products. The bacterium Bacillus...
Carrageenan is a common food additive extracted from red seaweed. For the past four decades, scientists have warned that the use of carrageenan in food is not safe. Animal studies have repeatedly shown that food-grade carrageenan causes gastrointestinal inflammation and higher rates of intestinal lesions, ulcerations, and even malignant...
Environmental Health News Synopsis by John Peterson Myers Mesnage, R, N Defarge, J Spiroux de Vendômois, and G-E Séralini. 2014. Major pesticides are more toxic to human cells than their declared active principles. BioMed Research International 2014 Article ID 179691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/179691 Testing of pesticides focuses on the active ingredient....
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