Modern Farmer by Brian Barth Source: Bill Benzon Some urban farmers find out the hard way that the zoning regulations of many municipalities don’t allow just any type of agricultural activity inside city limits — people have been fined and threatened with jail time. In some cities it’s still illegal to grow a few vegetables in… Read more »
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Kew’s Growth Strategy: Hybrid Crops Without the Genetic Modification
Plan to crossbreed crops with their wild cousins to help boost resistance to climate change The Independent By Tom Bawden British researchers are leading an unprecedented global project to track down and store wild relatives of common crops – to help breed hybrids with higher yields that could be resistant to the effects of climate… Read more »
Natural Foods Retailer Nutiva Challenges DEA, Embraces Hemp
Bloomberg By Greg T. Spielberg In August 1999, the U.S. Customs Service — acting on a Drug Enforcement Administration order — seized a Canadian hemp-food exporter’s truck with 20 tons of hemp seeds entering Detroit from Ontario. The nongerminating seeds, en route to U.S. natural food businesses, have always been legal to import, though illegal… Read more »
The Ag Gag Laws: Hiding Factory Farm Abuses From Public Scrutiny
A former HSUS investigator details the dangers of HR 589, makes it illegal for investigative reporters to take jobs at factory farms in Iowa. The Atlantic By Cody Carlson Earlier this month, politicians in Iowa bowed to corporate pressure when they passed a law designed to stifle public debate and keep consumers in the dark…. Read more »
Nevada County Organic Farmer Saves Heirloom Trees for Food and History
The Union (CA) By Laura Brown It was 1871 when a “testy little Frenchman” named Felix Gillet first opened his Barren Hill Nursery to the public on 16 acres of logged property at the top of Nevada Street. During Gillet’s lifetime, he imported and bred thousands of varieties of old world fruit and nuts from… Read more »
New National Organization Publishes First Food Policy Scorecard
Food Policy Action Sara Sciammacco Tracks Food and Farm Votes, Identifies Good Food Champions in Congress Washington, D.C. – Chef Tom Colicchio and other healthy food advocates, animal welfare and anti-hunger champions launched a new organization on National Food Day (Oct. 24), devoted to holding members of Congress accountable to the public interest for their… Read more »
Glyphosate Found in Human Urine
GM Watch According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for drinking water. As well as… Read more »
Dairy Debate
USDA investigation into local company puts spotlight on fight over organic labeling By Ben Ready The Longmont Daily Times-Call PLATTEVILLE — Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are formally investigating a local dairy after receiving complaints last year from a Wisconsin farming activist group made up of organic purists. But as much as the… Read more »
Berry Farmer’s Suit Stuns Organic Goliaths
Lax labeling claim gains steam in court By Andrew Martin Tribune national correspondent August 11, 2005 HARTFORD, Maine — Arthur Harvey, an organic blueberry farmer, lives in a 168-year-old house with an outhouse out back and a solar panel on the roof, which he uses to power his computer. He doesn’t care for pesticides or… Read more »
Conventional Cattle on Factory Dairies Producing “Organic” Milk
Illegal Practice Damaging Family Farmers and Defrauding Consumers CORNUCOPIA, WIS: A Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, The Cornucopia Institute, announced this week that it is filing a formal legal complaint in an attempt to immediately halt the USDA from allowing factory farms producing “organic” milk from bringing conventional dairy cattle onto their farms. Cornucopia claims… Read more »
