Organic Dairy: Make an Informed Choice
September 11, 2026
How Citizen Lobbyists Made a Difference at the recent National Organic Standards Board Meeting By Charlotte Vallaeys, Director Farm and Farm Policy At the most recent National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting, in April in Portland, Oregon, The Cornucopia Institute helped force a careful review that resulted in blocking the ...
The Oregonian By Elizabeth Case As the estimate of dead bees rose to 50,000, the Oregon Department of Agriculture confirmed the insecticide Safari caused the deaths in a Wilsonville earlier this week. A landscaping company sprayed 55 linden trees in a Target parking lot to control for aphids, said Dan ...
[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 ...
Food Safety News By Mark Kastel Because Food Safety News holds an important perspective in the industry, I was surprised to see the website publish a commentary by Mr. Mischa Popoff. Mr. Popoff has spent the last few years promoting his self-published book, Is It Organic. He has made irresponsible ...
New York Times By Kathryn Shattuck BASSETT, Neb. — Isolation comes with the territory in the Sandhills of Nebraska, where grassy dunes laced with wet meadows undulate above the Ogallala Aquifer, and the thinning towns are few and far between. In the four years since he settled here, Prescott Frost ...
Young and Beginning Farmers Plant Roots of Sustainability and Community By Elizabeth Wolf, Communications and Development Director Over the past century, the total number of American farmers has plummeted to less than 1% of the U.S. population. For each individual farmer under the age of 35, there are six over ...
Oregon Live By Elizabeth Case, The Oregonian An estimated 25,000 bumblebees have been found dead in a Target parking lot in Wilsonville since Saturday, the largest known incident of bumblebee deaths in the United States, according to the Xerces Society. Preliminary information suggests pesticides may be at fault. The Oregon ...
[Note from Mark Kastel: Since Dean Foods purchased the Silk product line they took a company that was 100% organic and switched it to virtually 100% conventional ingredients for their soy, almond, coconut and other “plant-based beverages.” They even experimented with a non-organic yogurt, aimed specifically at toddlers with their ...
Digital Journal By Anne Sewell Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE) commissioned a series of urine tests on people in 18 countries across Europe. The results were released on Thursday and FoE is asking, “Why is there weed killer in our bodies?” The findings from these tests raise serious concerns ...
Prominent Canadian geneticist David Suzuki outlines the lack of any conclusive research proving GMOs are safe for human consumption and makes the argument that we should be able to choose in the marketplace (labeling). And he “speaks truth to power” in his messaging to the Monsanto. Click here to view ...
Brattleboro Reformer By Jon Potter BRATTLEBORO — Time was when “organic” was a word of the lunatic fringe, and nobody had ever heard of “localvores.” Time was when there weren’t co-ops or CSAs or farmers’ markets in our local food system when nobody was even thinking there was such a ...
Pandora’s Lunchbox, by former New York Times business reporter Melanie Warner, offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processed foods industry. – Charlotte Vallaeys, Director, Farm and Food Policy By exploring exactly how the edible concoctions sold to us as “food” are made, the book sheds light on why we ...
