Cornucopia is the most vocal and engaged watchdog of The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). The 15-member NOSB is an expert citizen panel created by Congress, charged with advising the Secretary of Agriculture on organic policy. Cornucopia closely monitors the NOSB’s biannual meetings and activities. One of the NOSB’s most important tasks is to determine… Read more »
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Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?
NY Times By Stephanie Strom Ann Arbor, MI — Michael J. Potter is one of the last little big men left in organic food. More than 40 years ago, Mr. Potter bought into a hippie cafe and “whole earth” grocery here that has since morphed into a major organic foods producer and wholesaler, Eden Foods…. Read more »
Busting the “Organic Is Expensive” Myth
The Cost of Organic Food Is Worth It and—Surprise—It’s Not Always Higher By Charlotte Vallaeys “Organic food is too expensive.” It’s a complaint we, as organic farmers and advocates, hear all too often. And we’ve practiced and often repeated our defense of organic food’s higher price tag: it’s worth every extra penny in terms of… Read more »
Big Sugar has been Manipulating Scientific Views since the 1960s
Cornucopia’s Take: It’s become an all too common practice for industries to fund science seeking results that they want. According to documents found in a Harvard library’s basement, big sugar has been doing this since the 1960s. We are seeing this happen with the carrageenan industry and regulation today. Independent research is crucial to public… Read more »
National Organic Standards Board Votes to Reject More Synthetic Additives in Infant Formula
Positive news for organic consumers from the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting currently taking place in Providence, Rhode Island: the NOSB has rejected the petitions to allow synthetic versions of the nutrients taurine, lycopene, lutein and l-carnitine in organic foods, including organic infant formula. The NOSB also rejected the petitions for two synthetic preservatives… Read more »
Non-profit Decodes the Sticky Mess in the Yogurt Wars Between Chobani, Yoplait, and Dannon
Report Helps Identify Which Yogurts are Health Food Versus Junk Food A report, Culture Wars: How the Food Giants Turned Yogurt, a Health Food, into Junk Food, issued by The Cornucopia Institute, accuses Dannon, Yoplait, Chobani, and other major marketers of misleading parents, who are looking for healthier foods for their families, into purchasing yogurts loaded… Read more »
USDA Secretary to Organic Farmers: Get the Hell Out!
Cornucopia’s Take: That’s a real public servant! Bring legitimate complaints about cheating in organics to the USDA, and the Secretary of the agency suggests that you are a crybaby-socialist and should move out of the country. – Mark A. Kastel Trump’s USDA Is Killing Rules That Organic Food Makers Want Bloomberg by Andrew Martin and Shruti… Read more »
New York Times Ramps up Pressure on NOSB as Meeting Opens
On the eve of the National Organic Standards Board Meeting, The New York Times published a story focusing on the debate between traditional organic farmers, growing in soil, and high-tech “organic” corporate interests hydroponically producing fruits and vegetables in water/liquid fertilizer. The Times story should ramp up the pressure on the USDA’s National Organic Standards… Read more »
Not Your Grandma’s Curds and Whey
Cottage Cheese, the Dairy Delight Said to be Making a Comeback [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Anne Ross, JD Director of International Policy at The Cornucopia Institute In the early 1970s, the average American ate five pounds of cottage cheese per year. Since then,… Read more »
FOIA Reading Room
The Cornucopia Institute has submitted dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests over the years in an effort to shine a light on the inner workings of the National Organic Program. Over and over we have seen the same response from the USDA: frequent delays far beyond what is permitted by federal law, overuse… Read more »
