Boston’s NPR – On Point With Jane Clayson in for Tom Ashbrook Aired 11:00am EST Monday, October 10, 2011 Farmer/philosopher Joel Salatin says get off your laptop, get in the dirt and live with it. Joel Salatin is heralded as the high priest of the pasture. And for good...
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Hello Cornucopia members and organic stakeholders, Have you ever purchased “natural” Kashi breakfast cereal or Bear Naked granola? Did you know they were manufactured by Kellogg’s? Have you ever purchased Back to Nature granola (Kraft) or something “natural” from Quaker Oats (PepsiCo)? You won’t find the names of any...
Food Safety News by Cookson Beecher The much-anticipated Raw Milk Institute has gone live. The brainchild of Mark McAfee, co-owner of Organic Pastures near Fresno, CA, the institute introduced its website — www.rawmilkinstitute.org — on Tuesday. Simply put, the goal of the institute is to use science-based food-safety principles...
Brattleboro Reformer – Brattleboro, VT By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN WESTMINSTER — About 40 years ago a group of farmers got together, high in a field in Westminster West, to pool their resources and buy some compost. The compost was made in Pennsylvania, by an Amish company that produced a chemical-free...
Courthouse News Service SAN DIEGO (CN) – A $5 million class action disputes the link Dean Foods has tried to fasten between Horizon organic DHA-fortified milk and purported improvement to “brain health” in adults and children. The consumer complaint says that Dean and its subsidiary, Whitewave Foods, sell a...
CBS News (link no longer available) (AP) TOPPENISH, Wash. — Call it a hops revolution. Northwest farmers have begun planting new varieties of the key flavor ingredient in beer and working with researchers to develop ways to grow the crop without pesticides. The movement stems from a federal decision last...
The chair of Cornucopia’s board Steve Sprinkel is profiled in this story, along with his wife Olivia Chase. Los Angeles Times By David Karp Reporting from Ojai— Most native-born French recoil from chiles as if from snakes, but in the Basque country of the Pyrenees foothills, five miles from...
CNBC WASHINGTON – Monsanto Co. spent $1.71 million in the second quarter to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure report. That’s much less than the $2.18 million Monsanto spent a year earlier but slightly more than the $1.44 million it spent during previous quarter. The world’s largest...
The results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every measure. The 30 year trial: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/fst30years
The Nation Vandana Shiva We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied their right to food. Industrial agriculture is pushing species to extinction through the use of toxic chemicals that...
CALPIRG San Francisco, CA – federal subsidies for commodity crops are also subsidizing junk food additives like high fructose corn syrup, enough to pay for 19 Twinkies per taxpayer every year, according to Apples to Twinkies, a new report by CALPIRG. Meanwhile, limited subsidies for fresh fruits and vegetables...
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