Cornucopia’s Take: Codirector Mark Kastel was recently interviewed by Public Radio’s Bonnie North for her program, Lake Effect. Enjoy this 15 minute recording of their conversation below discussing organic standards for food and agriculture. Defining and Maintaining Organic Standards WUVM, Milwaukee Public Radio by Bonnie North Listen to the interview at WUVM by clicking on the… Read more »
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Food Manufacturers and Organic Industry Lobbyists Circle the Wagons
Defend Organic Scofflaw in Court to Protect Corporate Takeover of Organics CORNUCOPIA, WI – Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Association, recently intervened as friends of the court in a federal consumer class-action lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest supplier of private-label organic milk of… Read more »
New Animal Welfare Rules Could Harm Family-Scale Dairy Farmers
This action alert is over. Broilers, Layer Standards Could Lock-in Favorable Treatment for Factory Farms Comments due by July 13 [Extended from June 13] One of the reasons consumers are willing to pay premium prices for organic milk, meat, and eggs is because they think animals are cared for in a more humane manner. Rules… Read more »
Pesticides in Produce
Consumer Reports Source: Remster 9 Consumer Reports’ new guidelines show you how to make the best choices for your health—and for the environment Across America, confusion reigns in the supermarket aisles about how to eat healthfully. One thing on shopper’s minds: the pesticides in produce. In fact, a recent Consumer Reports survey of 1,050 people… Read more »
What is My Certifier Hiding?
A Farmer’s Plea for Certifier Transparency [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] Source: AdobeStock Neal Laferriere, owner of Blackberry Botanicals, walks his organic farm in rural West Virginia. When Laferriere walks, he thinks. As he strolls along the rolling hills, he thinks about his family, their farm,… Read more »
Feed Supply, Costs Squeeze Organic Livestock Farmers
The Des Moines Register (link no longer available) by Phillip Brasher, Register Washington Bureau Facing sky-high crop prices, some in the organic food industry are borrowing an idea from their conventional counterparts. CROPP Cooperative, best known for Organic Valley milk, seeks organic grain growers willing to sign three-year contracts to supply feed to the La Farge,… Read more »
State of Fever: Monsanto’s GMO Policy Infecting All Levels of Government
By Will Fantle, Codirector From the Summer issue of The Cultivator From the USDA to foreign policy, Congress, state governments, elections and the courts, the feverish politics of genetically modified foods (GMOs) have infected decision making and dramatically tilted policies towards the desires of Monsanto and the Biotech industry. Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 promised… Read more »
Why the Next President Will Need a National Food Policy
Future of Food by Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador, Olivier De Schutter Courtesy of Harmony Farm Last November, we published an op-ed article in the Washington Post calling on the president to establish a National Food Policy (NFP). Given that the production and consumption of food has a bigger impact on Americans’ well-being than… Read more »
USDA Enforcement Action At Nation’s Largest Dairy Fails to Levy Fines or Yank Certification – Findings of Investigation Appear to Constitute Fraud
Watchdog: Organic Community “Taking the Law into Its Own Hands” CORNUCOPIA, WI: Announcing the filing of additional legal complaints with the USDA, and threatening civil litigation, the nation’s most aggressive organic watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, blasted the USDA for not penalizing the industry’s largest organic milk producer after government regulators found that they have perpetrated… Read more »
Mother Nature’s Daughters
The New York Times by Michael Tortorello If you wanted to find someone picking a fat tomato this week in the City of New York, you could go see Esther and Pam, near the kiddie-pool planters on the rooftop of the Metro Baptist Church in Hell’s Kitchen. Or Maggie, Benia, Iyeshima and Kristina at the Bushwick Campus… Read more »
