Advocates are cheered by the growing appeal of organic foods. But shoppers, confused by labels, don’t always get what they think they paid for. By Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CHICAGO – Buying organic milk these days – or organic apples, eggs, or beef –...
The boom in demand for organic milk is transforming farming villages in the Upper Midwest — and milk producers are trying to persuade conventional farmers to convert. Minneapolis Star Tribune Matt McKinney It’s not like Byerly’s to leave customers wanting, but for weeks this spring, the chic St. Louis...
The New York Times By MELANIE WARNER Starting this summer, there will be a lot more organic food on supermarket shelves, and it should cost a lot less. Most of the nation’s major food producers are hard at work developing organic versions of their best-selling products, like Kellogg’s Rice...
Wall Street Journal By SARAH NASSAUER Last month, Peter Miller stood in a small agricultural extension office, pleading his case for more organic dairy farming to a few dozen farmers from New York’s Orange County. “We could use a lot more milk right now and we are looking for...
By Willie Nelson As one of the founders of Farm Aid, I have watched with admiration and a good amount of satisfaction the growth of what many now call the “Good Food Movement” — the growing interest in and demand for organic, humanely-raised and family farm-identified food that is...
A Profile of Eden Foods Striving to eat locally can often hit a wall when we yearn to spice things up a bit, but wasabi, tamari, plum paste and sea vegetables, even grains and flours haven’t exactly made their way into our local production system. Fortunately, one Michigan-based company...
ALEX PULASKI The Oregonian MONMOUTH — Jon Bansen unleashes a long call into a biting wind, his eyes scanning across rolling green hillsides dotted with bare oaks. For long seconds he has no answer. Then they come: curious Jersey heifers by the dozen, trotting toward him over wet spring...
If Federal Agency Fails to Fix Pasture Standards CONTACT: Urvashi Rangan ; Charles Margulis Washington DC–As the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) gets ready to hold a hearing on the issue, national surveys from The Center for Food Safety and Consumers Union (CU) project a significant drop...
Cornucopia Institute Seeks Records on Lack of Organic Food Standards Enforcement Contact: Will Fantle, 715-839-7731 Gary Cox, 614-233-4850 CORNUCOPIA, WI: The Cornucopia Institute has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to compel the USDA to provide public records sought through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests....
USDA investigation into local company puts spotlight on fight over organic labeling By Ben Ready The Longmont Daily Times-Call PLATTEVILLE — Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are formally investigating a local dairy after receiving complaints last year from a Wisconsin farming activist group made up of organic...
Pasture Production Better for the Environment, Higher in Omega-3 Fatty Acids than Conventional Beef and Milk The Union of Concerned Scientists has released the first comprehensive study that confirms that beef and milk from animals raised entirely on pasture have higher levels than conventionally raised beef and dairy cattle...
Published on Saturday, March 4, 2006 by the Inter Press Service by Stephen Leahy TORONTO, Canada—Organic foods protect children from the toxins in pesticides, while foods grown using modern, intensive agricultural techniques contain fewer nutrients and minerals than they did 60 years ago, according to two new scientific studies....
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