Organic Dairy: Make an Informed Choice
September 11, 2026
Herbruck’s massive “organic” operation in Michigan managing nearly two million birds (Click on image for larger version) Almost a decade after The Cornucopia Institute brought public scrutiny to the issue of giant “factory farms” producing organic eggs and poultry, the USDA has finally released its long-awaited draft rule to constrain ...
NPR – The Salt by Dan Charles Source: Richard Yuan Most food, if we trace it back far enough, began as a seed. And the business of supplying those seeds to farmers has been transformed over the past half-century. Small-town companies have given way to global giants. A new round ...
Nautilus by Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery Source: Anna Fox How a steady diet of fertilizers has turned crops into couch potatoes. Most of us are familiar with the much-maligned Western diet and its mainstay of processed food products found in the middle aisles of the grocery store. Some ...
Consumer Reports by Eric Schlosser Source: USDA During our 80th-anniversary year, Consumer Reports is introducing a series of provocative opinion essays by leading thinkers on urgent consumer issues. We hope you’ll join the conversation with us. Severely obese schoolchildren, E. coli outbreaks, salmonella in ground beef, arsenic in apple juice ...
Food Politics by Marion Nestle Philip H. Howard. Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? Bloomsbury, 2016. I don’t know Philip Howard personally but I have long appreciated his graphic visualizations of the extent of concentration—only a few companies owning fast percentages of the market—in ...
National Geographic by Brian Clark Howard Source: James Brooks Here’s how the world’s depleted fish populations could be turned around. After decades of declines, most of the world’s fish populations could recover in just ten years, while fishermen make more money at the same time, scientists reported in a new ...
The Nation by Liza Gross Source: benketaro As in most states, regulators in California measure the effect of only one pesticide at a time. But farmers often use several pesticides together—and that’s a big, toxic problem. California officials have long touted their pesticide regulations as the toughest in the nation. ...
YouTube by Earthjustice Jim Cochran arrived at work before dawn. He walked out into the strawberry fields. As the sun rose and light hit the field, he began to smell chemicals. His eyes watered. His head spun. He started to shake. He had just walked into a field that had ...
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 ...
Center for Food Safety Source: Ecology Action Centre, Ray Plourde Coalition of Fishing, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Say First-ever Approval of Laboratory-Created Food Animal Violated Laws and Ignored Risks to Wild Salmon and Fishing Communities A broad coalition of environmental, consumer, and commercial and recreational fishing organizations today sued the ...
Wise Traditions Jesse Straight is a local farmer and father of five young children. A few years back, he never would have imagined the life he leads today. As a student at the University of Virginia, Jesse was on a religious studies and pre-med track. Hear what changed the direction ...
The Washington Post by Darryl Fears In the end, Maryland lawmakers couldn’t ignore the same haunting story from beekeepers. “I go into winter with a really strong population, managed them to be fat and healthy, treated for mites, with plenty of food,” said Bonnie Raindrop, a keeper in Baltimore County. ...
