Bangor Daily News (Maine) By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff BLUE HILL, Maine — Small-scale farmers and Mainers who buy directly from them held a boisterous rally Friday to support a Hancock County man sparring with agriculture officials over his right to sell “raw milk” and other products from his farm without a license. Farmer Dan… Read more »
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Tide Mill Farm
“It was a very sad day in the late 70s when I watched the cows leave the farm after the bottom went out of milk prices. I never anticipated that they would return,” remembers Jane Bell. Jane moved to Tide Mill Farm after marrying seventh-generation farmer Robert Bell. Their son, Aaron, was born that same… Read more »
Real Organic Milk Being Dumped, Cheap Industrial “Organic” Dominates Big Box Stores
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia has been filing formal complaints about Aurora Dairy, and several other giant certified “organic” operations in the west, for over 10 years. The USDA has sometimes refused to investigate their alleged lack of grazing and confinement conditions, even when Cornucopia provided aerial images of ungrazed, sometimes hayed, pasture. When the USDA has… Read more »
FDA Again Testing for Glyphosate in Food
Cornucopia’s Take: The FDA began limited testing for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, early in 2016 but suspended testing shortly thereafter, citing issues with consistent procedures. Testing has now resumed, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Glyphosate, a suspected carcinogen, is not approved for use in organic agriculture. FDA Resumes… Read more »
What’s the Buzz Around A2 milk?
You may have seen a label becoming more common on your dairy shelves: A2 milk. What is A2 milk, and why do some people claim that it solves gastrointestinal issues they otherwise get from dairy? A2 isn’t really new. In fact, it’s been around for as long as humans have been drinking milk. The difference… Read more »
DHA in ‘Organic’ Milk comes from Algae Fed Corn Syrup
Cornucopia’s Take: Researchers at The Cornucopia Institute discovered that large pharmaceutical companies, and milk bottlers like Dean Foods/Horizon, had quietly begun using an algae-based nutraceutical from Martek Biosciences in certified organic products (including infant formula) without approval. Cornucopia filed a formal legal complaint which led to the exposure of this controversy. Although the USDA stated they… Read more »
Bicentennial Bovine
Over Two Hundred Years of Stewardship [This article was previously published in the fall issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Rachel Zegerius, Communications and Development Associate at The Cornucopia Institute It was a very sad day in the late 70s when I watched the cows leave the farm after the bottom went out of… Read more »
Organic vs. Conventional: Pundits Are Welcome to Their Own Opinion, But Not Their Own Facts
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 and unsupported claims that 80… Read more »
South Dakota’s New Raw Milk Rules Effective Dec. 11
Food Safety News The production, testing and labeling of raw milk will be under new rules in South Dakota effective Dec. 11, 2013. State Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch approved the rules, clearing the way for the changes under consideration since early this year to go into effect. The changes were already passed by the… Read more »
Southern Minn. Organic Farm Attracts Wildlife
Daily Globe GIBBON, Minn (AP)- It has all the markings of a working farm — 70 milk cows, crop fields, tractors, hay baler, combine. But there is so much more on the Martin and Loretta Jaus farm northwest of Gibbon. Marshes are humming with the spring nesting activity of wood ducks, teal and mallards, while… Read more »
