The Wall Street Journal By Jane Zhang in Washington, John W. Miller in Brussels and Lauren Etter in Chicago Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring. After more than six years of wrestling with the question of whether meat and milk from them are safe to… Read more »
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Don’t Toss That Sour Milk! And Other Tips To Cut Kitchen Food Waste
NPR – The Salt by Allison Aubrey One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. As we show in the video above, this is what chef Dan Barber demonstrated earlier this year, when he temporarily turned Blue Hill, his Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City, into an incubator for garbage-to-plate dining. Barber’s intent was to raise… Read more »
American Grassfed Association Rejects New USDA Grassfed Label
Partners with Food Alliance for More Rigorous Standard and Certification Program Denver, CO – The American Grassfed Association (AGA), representing more than 300 grassfed livestock producers, today rejected standards for grassfed claims announced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), protesting rules that allow confinement of animals and the use of hormones and antibiotics…. Read more »
(ALERT OVER) – Tell the FDA No to Cloned Animals
The Food and Drug Administration has given preliminary approval to the use of cloned animals for food. According to the agency’s chief of veterinary medicine, milk and meat from cloned cows, pigs and goats, and from their offspring, are as safe to eat as the food we eat every day. Consumers and the public now… Read more »
Microbes in the Soil and in Our Guts
Cornucopia’s Take: Please enjoy this review of The Hidden Half of Nature by David Montgomery and Anne Biklé. Given the science and practical work of microbes in soil, it is clear that soil is crucial to our health. Our friend Fred Kirschenmann suggested this book. The scientists whose garden unlocked the secret to good health The… Read more »
Which Chicken Breeds Are Right for You?
Rodale Wellness by Lissa Lucas & Traci Torres of My Pet Chicken Learn how to read the breeds so you can build your best backyard flock. Source: Marilyn Brinker You’re the Casting Director of Your Flock Let’s take a look at how chicken breeds are described in catalogs–and how to decode what those descriptors mean. We’ll… Read more »
Another Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish
The New York Times By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL AGUA AZUL, Honduras — A common Bible story says Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish, which scholars surmise were tilapia. But at the Aquafinca fish farm here, a modern miracle takes place daily: Tens of thousands of beefy, flapping tilapia are hauled out of… Read more »
Chicken Farmers Make the Leap From Factory to Pasture
National Geographic, The Plate by Maryn McKenna It’s never too late to change something that’s not working for you. That’s what farmer Teresa Herman has learned. Herman’s grandparents raised chickens. So did her husband’s. So did their parents, and just about everyone else they knew in their tiny town of Taylorsville, North Carolina and in… Read more »
Defending Organics
How Citizen Lobbyists Made a Difference at the recent National Organic Standards Board Meeting By Charlotte Vallaeys, Director Farm and Farm Policy At the most recent National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting, in April in Portland, Oregon, The Cornucopia Institute helped force a careful review that resulted in blocking the approval for use in organics… Read more »
Organic Policy Wonks Square Off in Stowe, Vermont
Fight Over Organic Integrity Pits Corporate Agribusiness Lobbyists Against Farmers/Consumers Scorecard of Votes by Organic Policymakers on the NOSB Released Stakeholders in the organic industry will descend on the small resort community of Stowe, Vermont next week in a ritual that has taken place for two decades. The focus will be on the semiannual meeting of… Read more »
