Bioscience Resource Project Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD, The Bioscience Resource Project’s Executive Director and Science Director have joined over 90 other scientists, academics, and physicians in signing the Statement described in today’s European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) Press. There is no scientific consensus on the safety of… Read more »
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NRDC Announces the Winners of the 2012 “Growing Green Awards”
National Resources Defense Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: Jackie Wei Awards celebrates leaders and innovators in the field of sustainable food and agriculture SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 16, 2012) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today honors four remarkable food visionaries for their trailblazing work to make our food systems healthier and more… Read more »
Organic: Corporate Control/Corporate Ownership Tracking the Shifting Sands of the Organic Industry
By Mark Kastel A thought-provoking question came in from an astute observer of the natural foods industry regarding my article in the July/August Cooperative Grocer: “Reclaiming the True Meaning of Organic.” She wanted to know about some of the corporate ownership stakes in familiar organic brands. Are megacorporations, including Heinz, General Foods, Dean, Campbell’s, and… Read more »
Organic Farming at Risk
“Organic without soil is like democracy without people.” Organic farmers from all over New England rallied in Vermont on Sunday, October 30, to protest the eroding organic standards of the USDA—particularly the federal government’s decision to permit labeling of hydroponic fruits and vegetables as “organic.” Senator Leahy speaking U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, a long time… Read more »
Food Security Index Shows Huge Disparity Between Nations
Drovers CattleNetwork John Maday, Managing Editor Imagine if it took 70 percent of your disposable income to put food on your family’s table, leaving just 30 percent for all other expenses. It is hard for us to imagine, but that’s the reality for the average person in Congo, Cambodia or Nepal, according to the Food… Read more »
Coastal Farmer Gives a Big Raspberry to ‘Chemical Strawberries’
San Francisco Chronicle – Washington Bureau Carolyn Lochhead Davenport, Santa Cruz County — A cell of an insurgency operates from an idyllic little berry farm perched on the coastal terraces north of Santa Cruz. “Chemical strawberries” are doomed, and so is the industrial agriculture model and the politicians who sustain it, warns Jim Cochran, owner… Read more »
Trump Administration Pressing Africa to Adopt GMO Agriculture
Cornucopia’s Take: A U.S. State Department trade-policy specialist recently traveled to Africa to encourage officials to ease restrictions against, and encourage the use of, GMO seeds. The work of trade representatives is to develop and coordinate U.S. international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy. This trip benefits the biotech industry in the U.S., down to… Read more »
5 Essential Steps to Sustainable Eating
Care2 by Jenna Zimmerman On our planet of 7 billion people, everyone must eat in order to survive. Food is not a luxury; it is a necessity. It is a pillar of our lives upon which all else depends. As our youth move into adulthood, feeding the world in a way that is sustainable for… Read more »
More US farmers Planting Non-GMO Soybeans This Year
For the first time since 1996, acres of Roundup Ready genetically modified soybeans could drop as more farmers decide to plant non-GMO. The Organic & Non-GMO Report Low commodity soybean prices, attractive premiums, and rising prices for genetically modified soybean seed are leading American farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO soybeans this year. Representatives… Read more »
Crop Flops: GMOs Lead Ag Down the Wrong Path
Grist by Tom Philpott Before I respond to Nathanael Johnson’s assertion that the “stakes are so low” in the debate over GMOs, I want to address a smaller point. “The debate isn’t about actual genetically modified organisms — if it was we’d be debating the individual plants, not GMOs as a whole,” Johnson writes. That’s a good… Read more »
