Cornucopia’s Take: While antibiotic resistant bacteria kill an increasing number of humans, the FDA continues to allow antibiotics to be needlessly used in industrial livestock agriculture. Their uses range from growth promotion to prophylactic applications. Cornucopia recommends only certified organic meat for omnivores. Antibiotics are allowed in organic agriculture...
Join Cornucopia’s cofounder at his local farmers market in Viroqua, Wisconsin, searching for the best certified organic and non-certified local food. In this short video he explains the benefits of shopping locally and why you seek out certified organic farmers first, and then use Cornucopia’s new DIY Certification Guide...
Cornucopia’s Take: The article below outlines how companies can limit independent testing when they claim substances are proprietary, meaning they keep their formulas secret in order to protect them from others in the industry. In this case, Monsanto allegedly blocked independent testing of their new dicamba formulation’s likelihood of...
Cornucopia’s Take: The Weston A. Price Foundation is one of Cornucopia’s important allies in the good food movement. Purchase tickets to their annual conference, Wise Traditions, by September 15 to receive early bird pricing. The Weston A. Price Foundation’s Annual Conference Wise Traditions Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, MN – November...
Cornucopia’s Take: Many highly processed plant-based foods are currently on the market masquerading as health food. Cornucopia believes people should have access to the healthiest and most nutritious food, and no matter what your dietary choice, purchasing authentic organic food should be of paramount importance. Eaters should also avoid...
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia strongly supports co-ops and other independent grocers who stock truly local and organic food, pay their staff a fair wage, and grow communities. Many consumers have a choice when it comes to food shopping, and choosing to support a member-owned co-op rewards family-scale farmers and gives you...
Cornucopia’s Take: Lake Erie is forecasted to suffer from severe algae bloom this year, and the Gulf of Mexico will likely see its third-largest dead zone in the 32 years of measurement. One of the largest contributors to algae blooms is agricultural fertilizer runoff. Farmers have been offered grants...
Cornucopia’s Take: Monsanto’s decision to disallow university testing of volatility is unique in bringing herbicides to the market. That decision meant that the volatility of their dicamba-based Xtend technology was only tested by the company itself prior to EPA approval. Dicamba is not allowed in organic agriculture. Dicamba Damage...
Cornucopia’s Take: As organic food gains popularity with informed consumers, Big Ag is transitioning farms to organic. Big Ag makes money from efficiencies in agricultural systems, although efficiencies often require the reinterpretation or watering down of organic standards, including those for outdoor access for livestock. Cornucopia’s scorecards, found in...
Cornucopia’s Take: Our cheap food relies heavily on cheap labor, much of it provided by immigrants and migrant workers. Both conventional and organic farmers talk about how they make far below minimum wage. Supporting local, certified organic CSAs and cooking with unprocessed ingredients like fresh vegetables and bulk grains...
Cornucopia’s Take: For the third time, a bill banning neonics until the EPA can prove their safety for bees and other pollinators has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Backers hope to tack the Saving America’s Pollinators Act of 2017 onto a larger piece of legislation. Cornucopia agrees...
Cornucopia’s Take: This new batch of documents sheds further light on Monsanto’s behind the curtain relationship with regulatory bodies and describes the less-than-robust testing on the chemical formulation of Roundup. Roundup is not allowed for use in organic production. New ‘Monsanto Papers’ Add To Questions Of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific...
The Cornucopia Institute, through research and investigations on agriculture and food issues, provides needed information to family farmers, consumers and other stakeholders in the good food movement and to the media.
