KTIC 840 Rural Radio Nebraska WASHINGTON (AP) – Milk from cloned cows is no longer welcome at the nation’s biggest milk company. Although the government has approved meat and milk from cloned animals while it conducts further studies, Dean Foods Co. of Dallas said Thursday that its customers and consumers don’t want milk from cloned… Read more »
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Fresh, Unprocessed Apple Cider Available in Wisconsin: Unique Seasonal Treat Survives Controversy
CORNUCOPIA, WI – Enjoying fresh apple cider is a wonderful fall tradition in Wisconsin. But lately, some individuals have noticed that fresh cider seemed absent from farmer’s markets and farm stands around the state. After some Wisconsin food safety inspectors misinterpreted state laws as prohibiting the sale of raw apple cider at farmers markets, many… Read more »
19 Organic Food Organizations and Businesses Working to Protect Consumers and the Global Environment
[NOTE: The Cornucopia Institute is one of the 19 groups FoodTank named as working to protect the integrity of organic food and agriculture.] FoodTank by Danielle Nierenberg and Emily Nink The Organic Trade Association (OTA), a membership-based organization of organic food companies, is working to bust myths about organic food. “Despite organic sales and accessibility at all-time… Read more »
If the Food’s in Plastic, What’s in the Food?
The Washington Post By Susan Freinkel In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on a three-day diet of food that hadn’t been in contact with plastic. When they compared urine samples before and after the diet, the scientists were stunned to see what a… Read more »
Minnesota Farm Uses Conservation to Make Each Acre Count
USDA NRCS by Julie MacSwain Credit: USDA NRCS When studying abroad in France and Spain, Sarah Woutat developed a love for organic farming after working on farms in both countries. The love was so strong, she retired from her New York City life working for an environmental publishing business and returned to farming. After an apprenticeship… Read more »
Direct Farm Marketing Still Offers Great Rewards In a Depressed Economy
AgriNews (link no longer available) By Carol Stender STAPLES, Minn. — Despite challenging growing conditions, bad weather and a lackluster economy, many direct marketers had a good year last year. How did they do it? Good advertising, including use of Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Good demand for locally grown foods helped sales, said direct marketing expert… Read more »
Food Inc. Movie To Be Broadcast On PBS & The Web
Cattle Network Whether you’re a foodie or just a food lover … Whether your tastes lean towards comfort food or haute cuisine, the POV (Point of View) series invites you to get your pots, pans, televisions, computers and friends ready for the special broadcast of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., on Wednesday, April 21,… Read more »
Antibiotic Use on Farms Is Up, Despite Promises to Kick the Drugs
[NOTE: Antibiotics are not allowed in the production of organic food] NPR – The Salt by Dan Charles Source: UGA College of Ag and Environmental Sciences If you go by their declarations and promises, meat producers are drastically cutting back on the use of antibiotics to treat their poultry, pigs and cattle. Over the past… Read more »
Sikkim is India’s First Organic State
Organic-Market.info Traditional Meal in Sikkim, India Source: ButForTheSky.com All of Sikkim’s farmland has been certified organic under the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) regulations by the end of 2015. “Sikkim has already achieved that feat of living in harmony with nature, and is therefore a model of development which also protects nature,” Prime Minister… Read more »
Yogurt Scorecard FAQ
by Jason Cole In December of 2014, Cornucopia released its latest report, Culture Wars: How the Food Giants Turned Yogurt, a Health Food, into Junk Food. The report accuses marketers such as Dannon, Yoplait, and Chobani of misleading consumers into purchasing yogurts with very high levels of sugar and a wide variety of potentially unsafe… Read more »
