Cornucopia’s Take: Rural Iowa Senator, David Johnson, in concert with Bill Stowe, the head of public utility Des Moines Water Works, is calling for stricter regulation of farm run-off. Nitrate and phosphate pollution from agricultural run-off has soared in Iowa since 2002, and more than half of the rivers in the state have now been… Read more »
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Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii’s Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops
The Guardian by Christopher Pala Source: Alexis Baden-Mayer Local doctors are in the eye of a storm swirling for the past three years over whether corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides is a source of prosperity, as companies claim, or of birth defects and illnesses Pediatrician Carla Nelson remembers catching sight of the… Read more »
Nation Watching GMO Labeling Fight in Vermont
Burlington Free Press by Dan D’Ambrosio Attorney General William Sorrell is well aware of the high stakes involved in his defense of Vermont’s labeling law for genetically modified organisms against a lawsuit by the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Source: Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center Across the nation, farmers, corporate executives at giant multinational food companies… Read more »
Farmacology
Johns Hopkins researchers are investigating a troubling potential source of resistant pathogens: the American farm Johns Hopkins Magazine By Dale Keiger Ellen Silbergeld, Eng ’72 (PhD), recalls that she did not want to go to the seminar. She was a professor of epidemiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1999 when her… Read more »
The Frankenfood Conspiracy: Secret Summit Where Slick Lobbyists for Bio-Tech Giants Seduced Tory Ministers into Changing Their Tune on GM Food
[Note: The British government has recently grown very outspoken in its new-found support for GMO foods. Here’s a revealing look at what changed.] The Daily Mail By Guy Adams Even by the standards of an industry that claims to be able to end hunger, prevent environmental catastrophe and bring prosperity to the developing world, it… Read more »
Calls for GMO Labeling Keep Cropping Up
Food Safety News by Cookson Beecher Like a persistent mosquito that keeps coming back no matter how many times you bat it away, the controversial issue of mandated labeling for genetically engineered foods in the United States just won’t go away. The latest example of that persistence is legislation proposed in Washington state that would… Read more »
Food Sovereignty and Farmers of Color: An Interview with Natasha Bowens
FoodTank by Claudia Urdanivia Food Tank interviews Natasha Bowens, author of the new book, The Color of Food. In The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming, farmer and community activist Natasha Bowens explores the intersections between food and race as she tells the story of Black, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous farmers and food… Read more »
GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty
FieldQuestions by Glenn Davis Stone As the latest controversy over GMO’s unfolds – this time it’s about a House Bill that would ban labeling laws – it’s time for a moment of honesty about science and safety. Of course safety is hardly the only bone of contention in GMO debates, but safety is the issue… Read more »
Wendell Berry: A Strong Voice For Local Farming and the Land
Wendell Berry stands before his solar panels on his Kentucky farm Image credit: Guy Mendes Yale Environment 360 by Roger Cohn For six decades, writer Wendell Berry has spoken out in defense of local agriculture, rural communities, and the importance of caring for the land. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about… Read more »
Grass-fed Beef Bearing the U.S. Flag Likely Comes from Australia or South America
Cornucopia’s Take: When Obama’s USDA jettisoned the country of origin labeling law (COOL), under industry pressure, they opened the door for deceptive labeling. Foreign beef processed in the U.S. can legally be labeled “product of the U.S.A.” Shoppers are being lied to, and domestic grass-fed beef producers have almost been shut out of their own… Read more »
