New York Times Op-Ed Contributor By MICHAEL POLLAN Berkeley, Calif. — To listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures,… Read more »
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Toxic Melamine Is Suspected In A Seafood From China
Industry experts and businesspeople in China say that the industrial chemical has been routinely added to fish and animal feed to artificially boost protein readings. LA Times By Don Lee and Tiffany Hsu Reporting from Los Angeles and Shanghai — Melamine in Chinese-produced milk powder has sickened hundreds of thousands of children and added to… Read more »
Harmful Pesticides Found in Everyday Food Products
Mercer Island children tested in yearlong study Seattle Post-Intelligencer By Andrew Schneider P-I Senior Correspondent Government promises to rid the nation’s food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren’t doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children. The peer-reviewed study found that the… Read more »
Farming the Future
We’ve been waiting 32 years for the state to map and protect Hawai‘i’s Important Agricultural Lands. The moment may be at hand. Honolulu Weekly By Ragnar Carlson Hawaii ‘78 The 1978 Constitutional Convention was the most significant moment in Hawaii politics since statehood. Among other sweeping reforms–the creation of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the… Read more »
A Shorter Link Between the Farm And Dinner Plate
Some Restaurants, Grocers Prefer Food Grown Locally Washington Post By Alejandro Lazo American Flatbread in Ashburn sits a few turns off the Dulles Greenway on the cusp of burgeoning suburbia. Parked in a strip shopping center behind a McDonald’s and sharing a wall with a Glory Days Grill, this is an unlikely place to find… Read more »
Is This the End of Organic Coffee?
Thanks to a recent hush-hush USDA ruling, your clean-conscience, fair-trade, organic latte may soon be a thing of the past Salon By Samuel Fromartz Enjoy your organic coffee now, while it’s hot — because it may not be around for long. Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly released a ruling that alarmed organic… Read more »
Hype vs. Hope
Is Corporate Do-Goodery for Real? Bill McKibben Mother Jones November/December 2006 Issue Ten percent of a two-year-old’s nouns are brand names; by the time an American child heads to school, he or she can recognize hundreds of logos. Disney is now putting its cartoon characters on fresh fruit, arguing (perhaps correctly) that it’s the only… Read more »
An Organic Cash Cow
The New York Times By KIM SEVERSON Alexis Gersten, a Long Island dentist, never thought about what she poured over her cereal until her son turned 1. “Having a new milk drinker, I sort of wanted to start him off on the right foot,” she said. Ms. Gersten worried about what synthetic growth hormones, pesticides… Read more »
American Prairies and Grasslands Disappearing Faster than Amazon Rainforest
Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional meat requires vast plots of feed, often grown using the most soil- and water-damaging agricultural practices ever used. Fertilizer runoff now taints the water of more than half of the U.S. population and is responsible for the largest Gulf of Mexico dead zone in history. Time to support organic farming – and… Read more »
Trying to Convince Chickens to Vote for Colonel Sanders: OTA Knows What’s Best for Producers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2000 Robo-calls Bother Organic Farmers During Spring Planting: Latest Push for Check-off by Powerful Organic Lobby Group https://www.cornucopia.org/2014/06/robo-calls-bother-organic-farmers-during-spring-planting Cornucopia, WI – The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has launched the next phase of its push for an organic check-off program. The industry lobby group, funded by the likes of General… Read more »
