Cornucopia’s Take: Organic soil-based farmer Dave Chapman of Long Wind Farm offers this update on keeping the soil in organic. Public comments to the USDA are due by 11:59PM (ET) this Thursday, March 30. The Battle for Soil in Organic Agriculture Long Wind Farm by Dave Chapman Dave Chapman testifies at the spring 2016 NOSB… Read more »
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Action Alert — Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15
[This alert is over–comment period now closed] In response to recent widespread, and sometimes deadly, outbreaks of foodborne illness, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) charging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with improving their oversight of the food industry. But the intense blowback the FDA received last year from family-scale farmers and… Read more »
Food Safety
[This Alert Is Over] Action Alert — Food Safety Modernization Act: New Draft Rules Comments Due on December 15 UPDATE 12-20-14: Read Cornucopia’s full comments to the FDA on the draft food safety rules. Click Here. In response to recent widespread, and sometimes deadly, outbreaks of foodborne illness, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act… Read more »
Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. These statements about journalism are especially… Read more »
Golden Rice Flops
Cornucopia’s Take: Virtually all of the genetically modified cultivars commercially available provide different advantages to conventional farmers (like being able to spray a crop with herbicides, for weed control, that would otherwise kill the plant). Golden Rice was one of the few promises of GE food that would have some benefit to eaters. Evidently, it… Read more »
Agrobiodiversity is Key to Nutrition and Sustainability
Cornucopia’s Take: Bioversity International’s new report describes how biological diversity of food can help nourish the world, rather than just feed the world. This distinction is becoming increasingly important as scientists and consumers question the nutrient density of our food. Tutwiler: “Agrobiodiversity holds the key to future food security Food Tank Bioversity International released a new report analyzing… Read more »
Leader of USDA Organic Program Subject of Ethics Investigation
Industry Watchdog Re-files Legal Complaints against 13 “Factory Farms” After a request to the USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), sworn law enforcement agents from the regulatory agency’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) have begun an ethics investigation into the conduct of the head bureaucrat at USDA’s National Organic Program, The Cornucopia Institute reported. Deputy Administrator… Read more »
GMOs and the Puppetmasters of Academia – What The New York Times Left Out
NOTE: The article below is in response to this New York Times article. The Ecologist by Dr. Jonathan Latham This one goes all the way to the top: Prof. Nina Fedoroff of Penn State, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, shown with President G W Bush. Source: Penn State The NYT’s expose of… Read more »
The Way Food Should Be
The Wire (this link no longer available) by Matt Kanner Mainers are leading a national push to restore family farming It was 20 degrees below zero when farmer Jim Gerritsen got up on the early morning of Feb. 13. Gerritson operates Wood Prairie Farm in rural Bridgewater, Maine, near the Canadian border in Aroostook County, the… Read more »
Biotech and Agribusinesses Spending Heavily to Defeat State GMO Food Labeling Votes
Final Infographic Spotlights Dueling Food Brands on Colorado and Oregon Initiatives For the third election cycle in a row, biotech corporations and large agribusinesses narrowly defeated statewide citizen initiatives that would have mandated the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food packages. This time the electoral showdowns took place in Oregon, where it was… Read more »
