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General Mills Buys Annie’s for $820M
Latest acquisition adds to General Mills’ presence in organic and natural foods. Star Tribune by Adam Belz General Mills is buying its way into the natural and organic food market as it wrestles with stagnating demand for its traditional packaged items. The company said Monday that it has agreed to purchase Annie’s Inc., the firm known for its… Read more »
Cornucopia De-Codes Egg Labels
Egg cartons are increasingly cluttered with third-party certification claims and a myriad of potentially misleading statements. Some of these are meaningful to egg buyers, and some of them are nothing more than marketing gimmicks. Source: polaristest The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the agency responsible for ensuring the truthfulness and accuracy in… Read more »
That Weed Free Lawn Comes at a High Price
Cornucopia’s Take: The commonly coveted weed free lawn rarely exists in present-day yards without the use of chemicals which insistently claim to be safe when applied as directed. But it turns out 2,4-D, an active ingredient in many herbicides sold for grass is more easily absorbed into skin treated with sunscreen or insect repellent. Cornucopia… Read more »
The Clear Choice to Protect Children’s Health: Organic Food
Report Cites Scientific Evidence Making a Compelling Case for Organic Diet Click here to read the report The Cornucopia Institute released a report today making the compelling case for protecting children’s health and development by choosing organic foods over their conventional, chemically grown and produced counterparts. The report, Protecting Children’s Health: Choosing Organic Food to… Read more »
How Much of Your Food Labeled as Organic Is Actually Organic?
The Atlantic By Barry Estabrook The USDA keeps a list of inorganic products that can legally go into foods labeled organic, but new board members could change things When is “USDA Organic” not organic? More often than you probably realize. The USDA keeps a “National List” of inorganic products that can legally go into foods… Read more »
Follow the National Organic Standards Board Meeting in St. Paul, MN #NOSB
Join The Cornucopia Institute as we keep you informed via live tweet and web updates from the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in St. Paul, MN October 24-26. We will be sharing the play by play both below and with our Twitter followers, at #NOSB or by simply following our stream. For background on issues up… Read more »
Organic Farming Could Feed The World, If Only We Would Let It
The Huffington Post by Joseph Erbentraut Source: Sarah When it comes to organic farming, many in the agricultural industry are on board in theory, if not in practice. And that’s largely because of low crop yields. For many years, the prevailing perception has been that organic farming — which avoids synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, antibiotics and GMOs, and… Read more »
Cereal Crimes
“Natural” claims in the cereal and granola aisle mislead consumers. A new study from The Cornucopia Institute indicates the “natural” claim is mostly meaningless marketing hype, in contrast to the USDA certified organic label which signifies the food was produced without genetically modified organisms (GMOs), toxic pesticides and other potentially dangerous synthetic inputs. Cornucopia and USDA research… Read more »
This Twenty-Something Hopes to Unleash the Next Green Revolution
Modern Farmer by Andrew Jenner In 2010, a young man on a quest for enlightenment walked into the office of Jerry Hatfield, director of the USDA’s National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. His name was John Kempf, and he was eager to learn more about Hatfield’s plant physiology work, which deals with the… Read more »
