Accolades from the American Cheese Society, the United States Championship Cheese Contest, and the UK’s World Jersey Cheese Awards, among others, line an entire wall of the cheese house at Thistle Hill Farm in North Pomfret, Vermont. By way of a Boston law firm (John) and EPA subcontracting (Janine), these unlikely cheesemakers have created a… Read more »
Cornucopia’s Take: Despite heavy pressure from industry, regulatory bodies, and food safety agencies, Christopher Portier, a carcinogenicity expert with over 30 years of research experience, continues to decry the use of chemical industry research to declare the safety of glyphosate. His insistence has put him, and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer… Read more »
Cornucopia’s Take: With Monsanto’s dicamba-based GMO seed line already on the market, scientists finally have the opportunity to test the new formulation for volatility. Monsanto is blaming farmers for spraying incorrectly, and now has the EPA on board, but weed scientists are deeply troubled by their testing results as well as the unprecedented number of… Read more »
Cornucopia’s Take: Solo vegetable farming is a dicey business, big growers have made it more difficult to find buyers, and the Amish lifestyle cultivates separation from the world, making internet advertising and timely phone calls impossible. Against these odds, a group of Amish farmers sell designer produce to restaurateurs in Washington, DC. How a small… Read more »
Fix by Tafline Laylin Source: Brad Smith The importance of bees to humanity’s long-term survival is impossible to overstate, yet their numbers are plummeting. In the past five years alone, the United States has lost 31 percent of its total bee population.1Each year – because of climate change, mites, pesticides, colony collapse disorder (CCD), and… Read more »
Scientific Reports by Mailin Gaupp-Berghausen, Martin Hofer, Boris Rewald & Johann G. Zaller Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 12886 (2015); doi:10.1038/srep12886 Received:02 February 2015; Accepted:07 July 2015; Published online:05 August 2015 Source: Dodo-Bird Abstract Herbicide use is increasing worldwide both in agriculture and private gardens. However, our knowledge of potential side-effects on non-target soil organisms, even on such eminent ones as earthworms,… Read more »
[For the full article, including all graphics and figures, click here.] Source: Martin LaBar Plos One by Carolina Mengoni Goñalons and Walter Marcelo Farina Materials and Methods Study site and animals The study was carried out during the summer-autumn seasons of 2012 to 2014 in the experimental field of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of… Read more »
