The Cornucopia Institute's national survey of organic products in the dairy case showcases ethical family farm producers and exposes factory farm producers and brands that threaten to take over organic dairying. With this Web-based rating tool, you can see which brands and dairy products found in your region are...
The Sacramento Bee By Ngoc Nguyen – [email protected] THE ISSUE Colony collapse disorder continues to vex researchers and decimate beehives. At stake is the routine pollination of many farm crops by honeybees. More than half of the nation’s 2.4 million bee colonies each year pollinate California’s almond crop. Bob...
Natural Products Insider by Steve Myers WASHINGTON – FDA announced after extensive study and analysis it concluded cloned animals are as safe a food source as their conventionally bred counterparts. Via the release of three documents, a risk assessment, a risk management plan and a guidance for industry, the...
San Francisco Charonicle Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff Writer This might come as a shock to devotees of the Church of Michael Pollan, but his next article will be about orchid sex, not food. And his next book may not be about food, either. “My wife says it’s time for...
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Eli Penberthy The Cornucopia Institute Consumer demand for shrimp is soaring. In 2006, the US alone imported 1.3 billion pounds of farm-raised shrimp, more than any other seafood. The results are wreaking havoc on the environment, threatening the livelihood of fishing communities, and significantly contaminating the water and food...
Morning-Times Daily (link no longer available) By Matt Hicks, Times Reporter NICHOLS – For five generations the Engelbert family farm has stood as a beneficiary in Southern Tier New York. The farm was first established in 1848 by the Engelberts’ German forefathers in Conklin, N.Y. In 1860 at the start...
As Americans hunger for healthier food, new efforts to define the term turn messy Chicago Tribune By Mike Hughlett | Tribune staff reporter Federal meat regulators this month are soliciting public comments on a label they believe will better define “natural” meat. The label, dubbed “naturally raised,” would attest...
The Wall Street Journal By Jane Zhang in Washington, John W. Miller in Brussels and Lauren Etter in Chicago Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring. After more than six years of wrestling with the question of whether meat and...
Newsday By Delthia Ricks Resistance to antibiotics is so pervasive that scientists now report having found evidence of drug-repelling E.coli in Arctic birds, the bacteria having been passed by migratory fowl that circumnavigate the globe along centuries-old flyways. Reporting in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, scientists in Sweden traveled...
Energy woes and climate change will present challenges Dubuque Telegraph Herald By Alan Guebert Every fence or barn built by a rancher, every tractor purchased by a farmer is an act of faith in the future because that fence, barn or tractor is an investment in 20, 30, maybe...
New West By Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel This Christmas season those who play naughty received an early gift from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On December 21st the EPA announced a proposed rule change that would exempt large livestock operators from the need to report releases of hazardous substances to...
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