Empowering a consumer response to the “factory-farm takeover” of organic agriculture The Cornucopia Institute is launching a new campaign to showcase dairy producers who use the most ethical, authentic organic farming practices. The “Organic Innovators: Top-Rated Farmers You Can Trust” Dairy Campaign will empower consumers and wholesale buyers to support hard-working farmers who are in… Read more »
News Channel 5 (link no longer available) Nashville, TN NASHVILLE, Tenn.- There is growing concern about a powerful antibiotic the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve for use in treating sick cattle. More than a dozen groups oppose the move, saying the drug’s use poses a serious health risk for humans, according to… Read more »
Cornucopia’s Take: Fungicides sprayed in conventional almond orchards have been found to kill bees that pollinate the trees. Organic almond growers use practices to minimize pests and, when necessary, natural fungicides which are safer for non-target insects. Almond-crop fungicides are harmful to honey bees UPI by Brooks Hays Exposed honey bees were two to three times… Read more »
NOTE: PNS Farms is not producing eggs at this time due to COVID-19 issues. They may restart production in the future. They write: “Our hens are housed in a wooden barn, comparable to the Ritz for people, where they eat high quality certified organic soy free feed (no antibiotics, no hormones, no animal by-products, no… Read more »
The New York Times by Mark Bittman Olivier de Schutter Image Credit: Heinrich Boll Stiftung I wish Olivier de Schutter had the power to match the acuity of his analysis, but it’s great that we’ve had an advocate whose vision is as broad as that of the corporations who have for the last 50 years determined global… Read more »
New York Times by Mark Bittman “Fed Up” is probably the most important movie to be made since “An Inconvenient Truth,” to which it’s related in a couple of ways. One of its producers is Laurie David, who also produced “An Inconvenient Truth.” Climate change, diet and agriculture are inexorably intertwined; we can’t tackle climate… Read more »
The basic issue of the suit — the public’s right to know where money spent in the I-522 campaign comes from — remains unresolved. Seattle Post Intelligencer By Joel Connelly A Thurston County judge has dismissed a lawsuit by supporters of Initiative 522, which charged that the Grocery Manufacturers Association violated state disclosure laws by… Read more »
Nature’s Path’s move “protests” betrayals by the Organic Trade Association The widely respected and leading organic breakfast foods manufacturer, Nature’s Path, announced the company’s resignation from membership in the Organic Trade Association (OTA), a prominent and increasingly controversial lobby group representing business interest in the industry. The announcement came in a letter to the organic… Read more »
Image Source: Martin Deutsch While the No side has been declared the winner, the Yes side is closing the gap as the final ballots trickle in. Here’s the situation: Yes is trailing by 5,200 votes out of 1.5 million cast and the total keeps shrinking (http://oregonvotes.gov/results/2014G/1029276478.html). An automatic recount happens if the tally shrinks below… Read more »
Seattle PI By Joel Connelly The Grocery Manufacturers Association began last December to plot how to defeat Initiative 522, the food labeling measure on Washington’s November ballot, with emphasis a “shielding individual companies from attack for providing funding,” according to a fascinating complaint filed Wednesday by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The AG is claiming… Read more »
