Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court failed American farmers who had sought protection and their right to self-defense from GE contamination in the landmark lawsuit OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association has printed 5,000 copies of an important handbook dedicated to protecting the organic seed supply. The new… Read more »
Search Results for: Organic Milk Testing
Andrew Weil Says Parents Should be Outraged by USDA Baby Food Pesticide Tests
Examiner.com Kimberly Lord Stewart For the first time since the inception of its pesticide-testing program in 1991, USDA looked at pesticide residues on baby food. Department scientists analyzed about 190 samples each of prepared baby food consisting of green beans, pears and sweet potatoes. This week the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released findings on the… Read more »
USDA Closes Investigation Into a Massive Organic Farm in Colorado — But What Did It Check?
We couldn’t say it better than the headline from the Denver Post when they ran the story (below) that first appeared in The Washington Post. Cornucopia has filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and will report to the organic community on our findings. Aurora Dairy in Dublin, TX An aerial image… Read more »
How Does Your Go-To Organic Milk Stack Up?
Cornucopia’s Take: We are pleased that authoritative sources for cooking and food ingredients have taken note of our investigation into organic dairying. This type of reporting helps consumers make better choices for what they feed themselves and their families. Not All Organic Milk Is Equally Healthy, Says Consumer Group Cooking Light by Christopher Michel Source: Susy… Read more »
Alexandre Kids (Alexandre Family Farms)
They write: “We, the Alexandre kids, start with day old baby chicks that we hand raise in one of our family dairy barns for the first two months, and then all of the chickens are on organic pastures under the watchful eyes of dairy cows. We have three breeds: New Hampshire Reds, Rhode Island Reds,… Read more »
Sewage-Based Fertilizer Safety Doubted
Associated Press By John Heilprin and Kevin S. Vineys, Associated Press Writers It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. Then last week, a federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to… Read more »
Organic Get Out Of Jail Free Card
Please feel free to quote anything in this statement to balance a story you might be already working on. You are also welcome to run this in its entirety as an op-ed. Photo of Mr. Kastel available upon request. Organic Get Out Of Jail Free Card — USDA exonerates largest “organic” factory dairy To the… Read more »
Organics Boom Sprouts Retail Rivalry
Industry leader Whole Foods has a challenger in Wal-Mart By MARIA HALKIAS The Dallas Morning News PLANO – Walter Robb studies weekly sales from every Whole Foods market nationwide, but he’s been pulling Plano store numbers more often since an experimental Wal-Mart Supercenter opened two miles away. “I’m all over it, and so far I… Read more »
USDA-Backed “Factory Farm” Takeover of Organic Milk Production Crushing Family-Scale Farmers and Forcing Them Out of Business
Newly Released Report, and Associated Organic Dairy Brand Scorecard, Enables Defrauded Consumers and Wholesale Buyers to “Vote with Their Pocketbooks” When commercialized in the 1980s, the organic dairy movement was viewed by many farmers as opting out of a rapacious agricultural marketing system that had already driven the majority of dairy farm families off the… Read more »
Stalking a Killer in Our Greens
Earthbound Farm grew the tainted spinach that left three dead last year. The firm is on a safety crusade but knows that threats always lurk. Los Angeles Times By Marla Cone, Staff Writer SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, CALIF. – On a hot, bone-dry afternoon — not unlike the one last summer when something went horribly wrong… Read more »
