Newsday.com By Delthia Ricks Antibiotic use in poultry processing has been controversial for decades, but researchers now say workers who handle “broiler chickens” in manufacturing plants are at risk of contracting drug-resistant E. coli and spreading it in communities. Public health investigators at Johns Hopkins University estimate that workers...
United Press International FLORIDA CITY, Fla. — A new product marketed as SmartGrow uses human hair imported from China and India to help people with their horticultural efforts. Tropical Research and Education Center researchers at the University of Florida said the new horticultural product has been proven to be...
Associated Press By Shannon Dininny YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) – It comes as no surprise to anyone that the number of organic farms is booming to meet consumer demand for healthy food. In Washington, a state known more for its apples than any other crop, there are 45 organic dairies....
USDA weighing compromise proposal In late November, Cornucopia staff arranged a meeting with USDA Undersecretary Bruce Knight to discuss concerns and problems with the now-implemented mandate requiring pasteurization of all raw almonds grown by domestic producers for sale in the U.S. For more than an hour, Cornucopia’s two codirectors...
Higher food prices, led by milk, are hitting consumers where it hurts – in the stomach. CNNMoney.com By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Food prices are climbing and Americans are seeing it on their grocery store shelves. The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose...
More Than 70 Consumer Groups, Dairies and Environmental Organizations Contact Governor Contacts: Naomi Starkman, CU, 917.539.3924 John Bianchi, Goodman Media, 212.576.2700 More than 70 dairy farmers, food processors and retailers, and consumer, farm and agricultural, public health, animal protection and environmental organizations, today wrote to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland...
The Way We Live Now New York Times Magazine By Michael Pollan The word “sustainability” has gotten such a workout lately that the whole concept is in danger of floating away on a sea of inoffensiveness. Everybody, it seems, is for it whatever “it” means. On a recent visit...
The 8th annual Texas Conference On Organic Production Systems is to be held at the Hilton Conference Center in College Station, TX February 1-3, 2008 The largest sustainable AG conference in Texas will be facilitated by the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (TOFGA), bringing together the farmers, ranchers,...
New industry rules for leafy greens aim to protect consumers from E. coli. Farmers and conservationists question the science behind the standards San Francisco Chronicle by Carl Nagin Late in August 2006, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta began investigating cases of severe food poisoning...
Seattle Post Intelligencer By Gene Johnson Associated Press Writer SEATTLE — Some of the nation’s biggest retailers and grocery chains – Costco Wholesale Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp., Safeway Inc. and Wild Oats Markets Inc. – sold “organic” milk that wasn’t organic, according to recently filed lawsuits. The...
Feeding ethanol waste to cows Grist by Tom Philpott Perhaps the most persistent debate around corn ethanol involves its “net energy balance” — that is, whether it consumes more energy in production than it delivers as a fuel. Even the studies that credit the fuel with a robust energy...
FoodNavigator.com By Stephen Daniells A mother’s likes and dislikes, particularly for fruit and vegetables, is passed on to her infant during breastfeeding, suggests new research from the US. A study of 45 infants, just under half of which were breastfed, showed that a baby’s preference for a certain food...
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