The Sunday Independent via www.iol.co.za By Eleanor Momberg Chickens refusing to eat the maize they had been fed has led to the discovery that their feed had been genetically modified to include a well-known weed and insect killer. Strilli Oppenheimer was recently approached by Dawid Klopper, the head gardener at the family estate, Brenthurst, informing… Read more »
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the USDA — No Illegal/Unreviewed Synthetics in Organics!
[This Action Alert is Over] Sneaking Synthetics into Organics Close the Loophole – Submit a Comment to the National Organic Standards Board Comments due Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (11:59 pm EST) Think you’re avoiding synthetic ingredients like sodium benzoate and polysorbate 80 by choosing organic? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. The organic law clearly… Read more »
The Final Chapter of Dean Foods: Bankruptcy
Dean Foods, the largest domestic milk producer, announced on November 12 that it was filing for bankruptcy. The company’s organic portfolio is anemic after packaging its former branded products division as WhiteWave Foods in 2013. In 2017, Organic Valley controversially partnered with Dean Foods on a joint bottling venture. After Dean’s bankruptcy announcement, Organic Valley… Read more »
Los Angeles May Become Largest GMO-Free Area in the US
RT.com Los Angeles is considering a ban on the cultivation, sale and distribution of genetically modified organisms, which would make the city the largest GMO-free zone in the US. Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell introduced Friday a motion to curb growth and proliferation of GMO seeds and plants within the city…. Read more »
Action Alert: Genetically Engineered Salmon
(This Action Alert is Over) FDA Seeks Public Comment UPDATE: The FDA has extended the comment deadline to April 26! FDA poised to approve genetically engineered salmon despite unknown risks to human health. Inevitable accidental release of transgenic fish into the wild could devastate native fish populations and ecosystems! The DNA of the top fish… Read more »
Glyphosate/Roundup & Human Male Infertility
The Permaculture Research Institute by Dr Mae-Wan Ho A steep decline in human male sperm count concomitant with rise in testicular germ cell cancer, congenital malformations of the male reproductive tract and drop in serum testosterone levels, all pointing towards increasing exposure to glyphosate/Roundup herbicides during the past decades, now corroborated by lab findings. A fully… Read more »
Linley Dixon Joins Cornucopia Policy Staff
Cornucopia is pleased to welcome farmer and soil scientist Linley Dixon, PhD to our team as Food and Farm Policy Analyst. Linley owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado, with her husband Peter and 4-year-old daughter Raina. Prior to farming, she spent 15 years… Read more »
U.S. Continues to Allow Harmful Food Additives Banned in Europe
Cornucopia’s Take: Food processors add “value” to baked goods, cereals, packaged snack foods, and other foods often in part by adding preservatives, flavorings, added vitamins and minerals, and food coloring. Some products containing additives allowed by the FDA in the U.S. have been reformulated without them for sale in Europe. The article below details some… Read more »
Canada Declares Farm Use of Neonicotinoids “Unsustainable”
Beyond Pesticides Last Friday, Health Canada released new measures the agency claims are intended to protect bees from exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides. As with recent regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), beekeepers and environmental groups are criticizing the measures as inadequate, not going far enough to protect domesticated honey bees that both… Read more »
Prop 37: California Soil Scientist Says Label Up!
Huffington Post Annie Spiegelman This November, Californians will vote on a historic proposal that would require genetically modified foods in supermarkets to be labeled. For some reason, Proposition 37, or The Right to Know Genetically Engineered Foods Act, has the food, biotech and pesticide industries shaking in their fancy, fat-cat boots. They’ve already spent $25… Read more »
