Attention shoppers: it’s going to take more than consciousness at the checkout line to fix our broken food system Whole Life Times By Christopher D. Cook Bacterial scares aside, these are propitious days for good food. Burgeoning interest in organic, nontransfatty, local, slow, GMO-free foods suggests a ripening of consciousness that could transform today’s corporate… Read more »
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Food Giant’s Power Tactics
Confidential agreements show tough terms for smaller companies Salon.com By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated Press Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.’s business practices reveal how the world’s biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found. With Monsanto’s… Read more »
Fall 2018 NOSB Meeting – Webinar: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Cornucopia staff members attended the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) pre-meeting webinar today, where the NOSB heard comments from the public. Cornucopia’s notes from this meeting are below. You can also view our notes from the Tuesday webinar. Ten of 15 NOSB members present at the beginning of the call: Source: Hideya Hamano Ashley Swaffar Jesse… Read more »
What Organic Beef Is — and Isn’t
The organic label offers unique assurances about how food was grown, raised, and processed. As ruminant livestock, beef cattle are more regulated than any other certified organic animal, with clear requirements for pasturing and diet. What the organic standards, rules, and regulations promise The Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) sets a regulatory floor for all… Read more »
Industrial Farming Alone Cannot Feed the World
Cornucopia’s Take: Organic farming plays an important role in sequestering carbon, building soil fertility, conserving water, providing high-nutrient food, and mitigating the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Industrial farms pump out billions of bushels of GMO corn and soy to feed sick livestock in massive CAFOs to flood markets with cheap bacon, hamburger, milk,… Read more »
Open Source Seeds Champion the Future of Biodiversity
Cornucopia’s Take: While corporations continue to lock down patents on plant characteristics and merger mania encompasses agribusiness seed companies, forward-minded breeders worldwide are promising the traits and genes they work with to future generations, free of charge. HOW “OPEN SOURCE” SEED PRODUCERS FROM THE U.S. TO INDIA ARE CHANGING GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION Ensia by Rachel… Read more »
Turmoil Shakes National Organics Standards Board Meeting in Texas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Will Fantle, 715-839-7731 Board Decision Making Colored by Restrictions to Authority and Governance Imposed by USDA CORNUCOPIA, WI – Protests, an arrest and parliamentary maneuvers marked the beginning of the semi-annual meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). After the initial turmoil subsided its members wrestled with the implications… Read more »
India Puts GM Crop Trials On Hold
BJP-led government gives in to demands from nationalist RSS to not surrender country’s food security to foreign companies The Guardian by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Credit: Meena Kadri The battle over testing of genetically modified crops in India took a new turn this week with the Bharatiya Janata party-led government putting field trials on hold. The move reverses the… Read more »
GM Salmon’s Global HQ – 1,500m High in the Panamanian Rainforest
Supersized genetically modified salmon grown fast and fat and after years of wrangling, are ready for market – but is the market ready for them? And why is the firm hidden away in Panama? The Guardian By Suzanne Goldenberg It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting for genetic experimentation or for raising… Read more »
