Cornucopia’s Take: Industrial farms, in this case the hog lobby, have managed to deregulate their industry since the 1990s. Enormous hog CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) spray noxious waste held in “lagoons” on neighboring fields, making local people sick. Research shows that African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are significantly more likely than white residents… Read more »
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Poultry Processing Chemicals Make Workers Sick
Cornucopia’s Take: The story below details the medical horrors visited on poultry plant workers subjected to dangerous antimicrobial sprays at work. The sprays include peracetic acid (PAA), which is used to kill bacteria, like salmonella and campylobacter, commonly found on birds raised in factory farm conditions across the U.S. Many undocumented immigrants work at poultry… Read more »
On Pasture: Where Cows Belong
If you drink milk, your morning glass may conjure images of cows grazing and napping on a bright spring morning. Yet the majority of dairy in the US comes from conventional factory farms where confined cows are fed concentrates, including genetically modified corn and soy, and even waste products from other industries, such as stale… Read more »
A Legacy of Local
86-year-old Hanover Co-op stands with dairy farmers Hanover Co-op Food Stores source $17 million annually out of the New Hampshire and Vermont local foodsheds. A significant portion of those sales comes from organic dairy. Cornucopia recently caught up with Allan Reetz, Hanover Co-op’s director of public and government affairs, to discuss the role of dairy… 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 »
Heartbreak and Hope
The diagnostic story of California Cloverleaf Farms Dairy By Rachel Zegerius California Cloverleaf Farms is the latest casualty in organic dairy. Crushed by the onslaught of industrialized producers, Ward and Rosie Burroughs, with son Zeb and daughter-in-law Meridith, recently closed the doors on their 550-cow operation in the San Joaquin Valley. The loss of such… Read more »
Everything You Wanted to Know about A2 Milk
By Kestrel Burcham, JD There is some buzz in the dairy marketplace about A2 milk — but what is it? And why do some people claim it solves the gastrointestinal issues that drinking cows’ milk usually gives them? A Difference in Milk Proteins The two major types of protein in cows’ milk are casein and… Read more »
The Nutritional Value of 100% Grass-Fed Organic Milk
Dairy products labeled 100% grass fed are gaining popularity in the marketplace for good reason: As with all living things, cattle “are what they eat”! Cattle, along with sheep and goats, are ruminants, meaning they evolved to eat and subsist on green forage. In stark comparison to cows in conventional dairies that are fed grain,… Read more »
The Monsanto Menace
The feds see no evil as a belligerent strongman seeks control of America’s food supply Village Voice By Chris Parker When you’re good at something, you want to leverage that. Monsanto‘s specialty is killing stuff. In the early years, the St. Louis biotech giant helped pioneer such leading chemicals as DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange…. Read more »
Warning Signs: How Pesticides Harm the Young Brain
The Nation by Susan Freinkel The pathbreaking CHAMACOS study has detected developmental problems in children born to mothers who toiled in California’s treated fields—but will anything change? This story was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news organization. Driving along Highway 101 through California’s Salinas Valley, it’s hard to miss the… Read more »
