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 »
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Robo-Calls Bother Organic Farmers During Spring Planting:
Latest Push for Check-off by Powerful Organic Lobby Group 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 Mills, WhiteWave, Organic Valley and Smucker’s, has been working the phone lines, robo-calling thousands of organic farmers across… Read more »
Scientists Frustrated by Factory Farms: Scientific Evidence of their Non-Sustainability Mounts
Pulse by Jim Lundstrom A factory dairy near Phoenix, AZ Professor Robert Lawrence is in a select company of researchers. “I think the only other group of scientists who probably are more frustrated than we are are the climate scientists,” Lawrence said in a recent telephone call. Lawrence is director of the Johns Hopkins Center… Read more »
Horizon “Organic” Factory Farm Accused of Improprieties, Again
Selective Enforcement by USDA Alleged — Kid Glove Treatment for Dean Foods/WhiteWave In an open letter published today and addressed to USDA National Organic Program chief Miles McEvoy, The Cornucopia Institute accused the regulatory agency of abdicating its enforcement responsibilities. Cornucopia, an organic industry watchdog, charged that the USDA had allowed Dean Foods and its… Read more »
Horizon “Organic” Factory Farm Accused of Improprieties, Again
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2042 Horizon “Organic” Factory Farm Accused of Improprieties, Again Selective Enforcement by USDA Alleged — Kid Glove Treatment for Dean Foods/WhiteWave https://www.cornucopia.org/2014/02//horizon-organic-factory-farm-accused-improprieties CORNUCOPIA, WIS: In an open letter published today and addressed to USDA National Organic Program chief Miles McEvoy, The Cornucopia Institute accused the regulatory agency of abdicating… Read more »
10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
Huffington Post By Lester R. Brown October 16 is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is… Read more »
‘Pink Slime’ Returns to School Lunches in 4 More States
Politico By Bill Tomson and Helena Bottemiller Evich Kids are going back to school and so is the ground beef filler dubbed “pink slime.” Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured beef. Their action followed… Read more »
Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected
New York Times By Stephen Castle and Doreen Carvajal GREAT DALBY, England — Invisible from the roadway, hidden deep in the lush English countryside, Moscow Farm is an unlikely base for an international organized crime gang churning out a dangerous brew of fake vodka. But a quarter of a mile off a one-lane road here,… Read more »
Dow Weed Killer, Nearing Approval, Runs Into Opposition
The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK To Jody Herr, it was a telltale sign that one of his tomato fields had been poisoned by 2,4-D, the powerful herbicide that was an ingredient in Agent Orange, the Vietnam War defoliant. “The leaves had curled and the plants were kind of twisting rather than growing straight,”… 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 »
