Partners with Food Alliance for More Rigorous Standard and Certification Program Denver, CO – The American Grassfed Association (AGA), representing more than 300 grassfed livestock producers, today rejected standards for grassfed claims announced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), protesting rules that allow confinement of animals and...
Class Action Suits Seek Damages from Sale of Fraudulent Milk ST. LOUIS, MO / DENVER, CO Acting on behalf of organic food consumers in 27 states, class action lawsuits are being filed in U.S. federal courts, in St. Louis and Denver, against the nation’s largest organic dairy. The suits...
Chicago Tribune By Stephen J. Hedges | Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – As alarm bells sounded for the second-largest hamburger recall in history, the nation’s top food safety officials were in Miami setting the “course for the next 100 years of food safety.” The fact that so many U.S. Department...
Boulder County Business Report (link no longer available) by Barbara Hey BOULDER – Despite threats of legal action, the vitriol continues between Boulder-based Aurora Organic Dairy and the company’s critics in the organic community – chief among them the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based advocacy group. The current conflagration concerns a...
Crops are getting less nutritious and farming methods are partly to blame Boulder, CO – Today’s farmers raise more bushels of corn, pecks of apples, and pounds of broccoli from a given piece of land than they did decades ago. But those crops are often less nutritious, according to...
Neuromarketers use sophisticated brain-imaging technology to test consumer response and help clients fine-tune their strategies BusinessWeek.com by Amber Haq Do you ever get the creepy feeling that advertisers know how to put a lump in your throat, inspire subconscious brand loyalty, or make your mouth water? Just wait: It...
Wedge to expand Garden’s community and education outreach, ensure preservation of the Minnesota farm MINNEAPOLIS – The Wedge Co-op, a Minneapolis-based natural and organic food cooperative with more than 13,000 member-owners, today announced its intent to purchase Gardens of Eagan, a celebrated certified organic farm in Farmington, Minn. As...
TRENDS| City of Big Shoulders shows signs of becoming a national player in food movement Chicago Sun Times By Kevin Nance, Critic-at-Large Chicago may be the City of Big Shoulders, but it’s also the City of the Cast-Iron Stomach. The stockyards are gone, but their legacy lingers as a...
Why we shouldn’t forget the Farm Bill Grist by Aimee Witteman Last Wednesday, Monsanto announced that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) approved a pilot program that will give farmers a 20 percent discount on insurance premiums if they plant a majority of their corn acres with seeds featuring...
Now that his dairy company has settled charges that it violated organic food standards, Aurora president Mark Retzloff wants to muzzle foes. Fortune’s Marc Gunther reports. Fortune (this link no longer available) By Marc Gunther, Fortune senior writer (Fortune) — Mark Retzloff, a pioneer of the $16.7 billion organic food...
Claims that “organic” milk sold to Target and Wal-Mart was conventional highlight a dispute over dairy-farm practices. Minneapolis Star Tribune By Matt McKinney Ever wonder how Target Corp. could sell its organic milk for dollars less than other stores? Turns out the milk might not have been truly organic...
Wall Street Journal By Scott Kilman Rising prices and surging demand for the crops that supply half of the world’s calories are producing the biggest changes in global food markets in 30 years, altering the economic landscape for everyone from consumers and farmers to corporate giants and the world’s...
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