San Francisco Chronicle – Washington Bureau Carolyn Lochhead Davenport, Santa Cruz County — A cell of an insurgency operates from an idyllic little berry farm perched on the coastal terraces north of Santa Cruz. “Chemical strawberries” are doomed, and so is the industrial agriculture model and the politicians who...
Secret USDA Enforcement Action Revealed CORNUCOPIA, WI: In a startling revelation The Cornucopia Institute is making public a new document indicating that not only did the USDA find that the nation’s largest organic factory-farm dairy operator “willfully” violate the federal organic standards, but that one of its certifiers, the...
Seattle Post Intelligencer By Rebekah Denn P-I Restaurant Critic Am I eating a dose of xenophobia and myopia with my edamame tonight, or just a garnish of common sense? My break-time snack this week comes from Willie Greens Organic Farm of Monroe, retailing for $5.50 a pound at the...
Organic farmers fear spread of genetically altered alfalfa Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Rick Barrett [email protected] Wisconsin is a long way from the Pacific Northwest, but Coon Valley farmer Jim Munsch worries that genetically engineered alfalfa grown there could contaminate his farm and harm his organic beef business. Alfalfa is...
Watchdog: Organic Community “Taking the Law into Its Own Hands” CORNUCOPIA, WI: Announcing the filing of additional legal complaints with the USDA, and threatening civil litigation, the nation’s most aggressive organic watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, blasted the USDA for not penalizing the industry’s largest organic milk producer after government...
Artificial Colors, Additives Boost Hyperactive Behavior in Toddlers and Children, Study Shows WebMD Medical News By Kathleen Doheny Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Artificial coloring and preservatives in food can increase hyperactivity in kids, a new British study shows. Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. evaluated...
Human rights, labor and environmental groups find Wal-Mart’s “green” initiatives lack real impact on global warming, employee health and welfare Washington, DC – As Wal-Mart prepares to release its long-anticipated sustainability progress report, 23 environmental, farm, labor, and human rights groups have released their own report, “Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Initiative: A...
On April 16, 2007, the Mark Bradley, the head of the National Organic Program, sent a letter to Marc Peperzak, the CEO of the Aurora Organic Dairy. Mr. Bradley summarized the results of the USDA’s investigation into complaints filed with the Agency by The Cornucopia Institute concerning Aurora’s organic...
We have verified that although some of the milk that Trader Joe’s is buying does indeed come from a factory-farm, milking thousands of cows, that particular farm is not under Aurora’s ownership. All the other brands that The Cornucopia Institute referenced (Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, Safeway, and many others) get...
USDA Requiring Aurora Organics to Reduce Dairy Herd Size and Remove Organic Label from Some Milk At 7:20 p.m. EST, August 29, the USDA issued an emergency news release announcing that they had sent a Letter of Revocation to the Aurora Organic Dairy. In lieu of revoking Aurora’s organic...
Congress just handed petroleum- and chemical-guzzling industrial farms five more years of wrongheaded subsidies, but chef Dan Barber says sustainable, organic food will yet prevail. Salon.com By Eli Rosenberg It’s deceptive to say that you are what you eat. If you were, you would likely be heavily processed, refined...
FOIA Document Indicates Why CA Factory-Farm Lost Organic Certification CORNUCOPIA, WI: Pursuant to a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), The Cornucopia Institute recently secured the Letter of Noncompliance issued by the country’s largest organic certifier, Quality Assurance International (QAI), prior to the decertification of a giant...
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