Search Results for: Organic Milk Testing
USDA Testing for Glyphosate in Limbo
Cornucopia’s Take: While the USDA claims glyphosate is harmless, and therefore hardly worth the expense of testing for, they did start limited testing for the herbicide last year. According to this article, a FOIA request gathered information about alarmingly high levels of glyphosate in honey and in oatmeal. Testing was to commence in earnest this… Read more »
The Number One Question for Determining the Integrity of Your Organic Dairy
The number of times a day your favorite dairy brand milks its cows speaks volumes about the integrity of its operation. Organic dairy cows are required to have access to pasture for the entire grazing season. The 5 cow dairies on The Cornucopia Institute’s Organic Dairy Scorecard ensure their animals graze well-tended pasture, focusing on… Read more »
FDA to Begin Testing for Glyphosate Residue
Feedstuffs Source: Chafer Machinery Recently, the Food & Drug Administration developed streamlined methods to test for glyphosate. The agency is now preparing plans for fiscal 2016 to measure glyphosate in soybeans, corn, milk and eggs, among other potential foods, according to FDA spokesperson Jason Strachman Miller. “The FDA has not routinely looked for glyphosate in… Read more »
Organic Pastures Dairy Company
Company: Organic Pastures Dairy Company Market Area: California Location: Fresno, CA Web site: www.organicpastures.com Phone: 877-RAW-MILK They write: Organic Pastures Dairy Company is a rapidly growing fourth-generation family-operated, highly specialized organic raw milk dairy, creamery, distribution, and marketing company with hundreds of retail outlets in California. These include all the natural food co-ops, Whole Foods,… Read more »
Inexpensive Technology Can Spot Fake Organic Milk – Will the USDA Look?
Cornucopia’s Take: Spectroscopy offers hope for truly organic dairy farmers. It provides a fast and inexpensive way to show, scientifically, whether milk comes from cows pastured on grass. Cornucopia has, in the past, filed numerous complaints against “organic” livestock operations who are in our judgement flouting the organic pasture rules. This is based on flyover images… Read more »
Raw Milk: Perfect Food or Public Health Threat?
Rapid City Journal By Mary Garrigan Josh Simpson pours raw milk from Black Hills Milk on his cereal every morning and drinks a tall glass of it before he goes to bed each night. The 11-year old Rapid City boy loves the milk’s fresh, creamy taste and his mom, Val, loves that it is a… Read more »
My Love Affair with Soil
by Jack Lazor of Butterworks Farm in Westfield, Vermont Butterworks Farm Cattle on Pasture We celebrate forty years on our farm this summer. Four decades of Earth stewardship has taught us many lessons—some easy and obvious, others more difficult and involved. Originally, we bought our farm because we wanted to be self-sufficient homesteaders producing everything… Read more »
Arsenic In (Conventional and Organic) Food: Recent Research Highlighting Contamination Warrants Concern
Arsenic in (Conventional and Organic) Food Recent published research and news stories are shining a light on the emerging story of both naturally occurring and man-made arsenic contamination in our food and water. Arsenic, which can be found naturally in soil and water, is a suspected carcinogen and thus these reports have been concerning. Furthermore,… Read more »
World’s Number 1 Herbicide Discovered in U.S. Mothers’ Breast Milk
Sustainable Pulse Credit: Occlusion Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10 times higher than in Europe Initial testing shows Monsanto and Global regulatory bodies are wrong regarding bio-accumulation of glyphosate, leading to serious public health concerns Testing commissioners urge USDA and EPA to place temporary ban on all use of Glyphosate-based herbicides to protect public… Read more »
