[This action alert is over.] Cornucopia, WI — The nation’s leading organic farming watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, is challenging what it calls a “conspiracy” between corporate agribusiness interests and the USDA that has increasingly facilitated the use of questionable synthetic additives and even dangerous chemicals in organic foods. In its new white paper, The Organic… Read more »
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Food Allergies are Expensive and Not Always Understood
Cornucopia’s Take: Food allergies and intolerances are a terrible burden to the afflicted. Cornucopia has reported on carrageenan, a common food ingredient which makes people ill, and DHA which sickens some infants from formula. Pesticide exposure is another possible culprit for food sensitivity. Cornucopia recommends a whole food, organic diet. A simple diet also helps… Read more »
USDA Power Grab
[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] National Organic Program Guts Synthetic Materials Decision-Making Process By Will Fantle The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) stands accused of a power grab due to changing a fundamental decision-making process impacting organic food and agriculture. Miles… Read more »
What the Starbucks?! Tell Starbucks to Serve Only Organic Milk From Cows Not Fed GMOs
GMOinside.org Green America’s campaign, GMOinside, launches a petition asking Starbucks to serve only certified organic milk. Sign here. Starbucks. Easily one of the world’s most popular and widespread coffeehouse brands, Starbucks has paved the way for the modern mass coffeehouse industry with its promotion of its corporate social responsibility and consistently strong branding. One area… Read more »
Natural Foods Retailer Nutiva Challenges DEA, Embraces Hemp
Bloomberg By Greg T. Spielberg In August 1999, the U.S. Customs Service — acting on a Drug Enforcement Administration order — seized a Canadian hemp-food exporter’s truck with 20 tons of hemp seeds entering Detroit from Ontario. The nongerminating seeds, en route to U.S. natural food businesses, have always been legal to import, though illegal… Read more »
Editing Genes at Home
Cornucopia’s Take: As gene editing technology has moved ahead, it has become a cheap hobby for the science-minded. Meanwhile, little attention has been paid by government entities around the world, and anyone can buy self-cloned DNA fragments online for their at home scientific experimentation. The main concern is the creation of dangerous organisms, deliberately or… Read more »
BREAKING NEWS! Senate Could Strike the “Monsanto Protection Act” – Contact Your Senators Today!
Center for Food Safety Thanks to your calls and emails, and the leadership in the Senate, today Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, will propose an alternative short term government funding bill that would repeal the “farmer assurance provision,” otherwise known as the “Monsanto Protection Act.”[1] The Continuing Resolution, passed… Read more »
Unregulated Gene Editing Technique Causes Unintended Gene Mutations
Cornucopia’s Take: CRISPR gene editing is an inexpensive technology now available to anyone with the equipment. It is billed by biotech companies as a very exact process, and U.S. regulatory bodies have so far chosen not to include organisms modified using CRISPR in GMO regulation and labeling. The study below actually found significant unpredictability in… Read more »
Top 10 USDA Organic Crimes
Dear good food advocates, I’ve always said that the organic seal is the best guide to good food when you can’t talk to the farmer directly. I still say that, and I mean it. If you follow the work we do at Cornucopia, you know we’re vocal watchdogs of organic policy because we want to… Read more »
Finch Family Farm
This brand did not participate in Cornucopia’s survey. This farm may also have a dba of DBA Elderberry Hill Farm. They say: “We are a small family farm practicing regenerative agriculture. We currently produce milk, beef, and pork.” Cornucopia’s investigation found some limited information about this brand and associated farming practices, but was not able… Read more »
