North America is on the verge of losing one of its most spectacular phenomena, Chip Taylor tells Salon Salon by Lindsay Abrams Credit: Captain Tucker Monarch butterflies are pretty impressive insects: Aside from that whole metamorphosis thing, they’re famous for their annual winter migration, an up to 3,000-mile journey across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. The breathtaking spectacle… Read more »
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The F.D.A.’s Not-Really-Such-Good-News
New York Times By Mark Bittman That “good” news you may have read last week about the Food and Drug Administration’s curbing antibiotics in animal feed may not be so good after all. In fact, it appears that the F.D.A. has once again refused to do all it could to protect public health. For those… Read more »
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
Independent Science News By Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years? In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly… Read more »
FOIA Reading Room
The Cornucopia Institute has submitted dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests over the years in an effort to shine a light on the inner workings of the National Organic Program. Over and over we have seen the same response from the USDA: frequent delays far beyond what is permitted by federal law, overuse… Read more »
Fall 2018 NOSB Meeting – Webinar: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Cornucopia staff members attended the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) pre-meeting webinar today, where the NOSB heard comments from the public. Cornucopia’s notes from this meeting are below. You can also view our notes from the Tuesday webinar. Ten of 15 NOSB members present at the beginning of the call: Source: Hideya Hamano Ashley Swaffar Jesse… Read more »
Go ask Alice
Are Alice Waters’ gastronomic principles — shop locally, eat organically — too hard to live by? A frank talk with the renowned guru of fresh food. Salon.com By Farhad Manjoo I had been prepared to skewer Alice Waters. Though I have eaten some of the best food I’ve ever encountered at her Berkeley restaurant Chez… Read more »
NOSB Webinar — Recap of Public Comments (and Postmortem)
Below, please find the roster of all those who testified at the National Organic Standards Board’s webinar/teleconference on Thursday, November 3. These notes were prepared by Kestrel Burcham, a policy analyst and attorney on our staff. The leadership at the USDA’s National Organic Program, with concurrence from members of the NOSB, have cut down the… Read more »
The Next Great GMO Debate
Technology Review by Antonio Regalado Deep inside its labs, Monsanto is learning how to modify crops by spraying them with RNA rather than tinkering with their genes. The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf a day, and left unchecked it will strip a plant… Read more »
The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
Independent Science News By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, PhD Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. On another occasion, Smith was… Read more »
Monsanto and EPA (Allegedly) Collude About Glyphosate Safety
Cornucopia’s Take: The article below gives the history of glyphosate toxicity testing and the uncomfortably cozy relationship between EPA management and Monsanto. Monsanto has apparently simply refused to participate in any truly independent research on glyphosate safety, and the EPA has repeatedly capitulated to their noncompliance since 1973. How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted… Read more »
