A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. Yes! Magazine by Frances Moore Lappe “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL In… Read more »
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Known Health Concerns About Glyphosate, the Main Ingredient in Roundup
Cornucopia’s Take: Use of the herbicide glyphosate has skyrocketed around the world since the introduction of crops genetically engineered to be Roundup Ready (resistant) in 1996. While the EPA insists that glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans, some research reviews have come to different findings. U.S. Right to Know seeks transparency in the food… Read more »
USDA Sued for Corporate Hijack of Organic Industry Governing Board
[View Cornucopia’s legal complaint here.] Watchdog: Business Executives Appointed to Seats Congress Reserved for Farmers Operating an organic farm? Source: NEC Corp. of America The Cornucopia Institute has filed a lawsuit challenging the USDA’s appointment of non-farmers to positions reserved by Congress for organic farmers on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). The NOSB is… Read more »
Chemical Industry Attacks Science with Spies and Lies
Cornucopia’s Take: The article below details Monsanto’s systematic campaign to discredit and potentially de-fund the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the agency tasked by the World Health Organization with identifying carcinogens. The information contained here underscores the need for individuals to educate themselves and to vote for politicians who are devoted to public… Read more »
The New Geopolitics of Food
From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars. Foreign Policy BY LESTER R. BROWN In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2 loaf of… Read more »
Organic Agriculture: Deeply Rooted in Science and Ecology 66
Grist by Eliot Coleman Organic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, provenance. If you look back at the first flush of notoriety in the 1940s, the names most often… Read more »
Track the Fireworks at the USDA Organics Meeting in TX #NOSB
Last update: 12:47 p.m., May 2 Join the Cornucopia Institute as we live tweet from the National Organic Standards Board meeting in San Antonio, Texas. We will be sharing the play by play with our Twitter followers under #NOSB or simply follow our stream. If you’re not already following us on Twitter please do so here…. Read more »
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
A Times reporter and photographer find that thousands of laborers at Mexico’s mega-farms endure harsh conditions and exploitation while supplying produce for American consumers. First of four stories. Please click on the link below to view this story with all images on the LA Times website. Source: Rusty Clark LA Times by Richard Marosi The tomatoes,… Read more »
On Pasture: Where Cows Belong
If you drink milk, your morning glass may conjure images of cows grazing and napping on a bright spring morning. Yet the majority of dairy in the US comes from conventional factory farms where confined cows are fed concentrates, including genetically modified corn and soy, and even waste products from other industries, such as stale… Read more »
The GMO Fight Ripples Down the Food Chain
Facing Consumer Pressure, More Firms Are Jettisoning GMOs From Their Foods The Wall Street Journal by Annie Gasparro Two years ago, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. initiated a plan to eliminate genetically modified ingredients from its ice cream, an effort to address a nascent consumer backlash and to fulfill its own environmental goals. This fall, nearly a… Read more »
