Cornucopia’s Take: Consumers should carefully monitor where their fish and seafood comes from to avoid supporting human trafficking. This new report by Human Rights Watch details continued human rights abuses in Thailand. Thailand: Forced Labor, Trafficking Persist in Fishing Fleets Human Rights Watch Reforms Fall Short of Addressing EU, US Concerns Forced labor and other… Read more »
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Family Farm Defenders in Japan
Cornucopia’s Take: Our friends at Family Farm Defenders recently visited a family operated dairy farm in Japan. We thought you might enjoy this account of their visit to the Two Little Hills farm. “Watch out for the cars, Karen! You can’t trust those old folks’ driving!” my host father warned as he shuffled over to pick… Read more »
Restoring Our Soils by Learning from History
AgriCultures Network by Roland Bunch Source: NRCS Most of our ideas about soils ignore the millions of years before mankind started farming. But what happened during the 99.9% of a soil’s history contains very important lessons. So let us celebrate the International Year of Soils by looking at what that history can tell us –… Read more »
The School Nutrition Association—Opposing Better Nutrition in Schools Since 2013
Union of Concerned Scientists by Karen Stillerman It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. An organization representing tens of thousands of “lunch ladies” nationwide is leading the charge in Congress to roll back key healthy school lunch rules—including requirements for less sodium, more whole grains, and more fruits and vegetables on kids’ school lunch trays…. Read more »
UAVs Awaiting Take-off in US Agriculture
Farmers Guardian by John Wilkes Source: David Rodriguez Martin Like their counterparts in Europe, farmers in the United States see potential for the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in their businesses. However, a ban on the use of drones for commercial purposes is preventing any further development of the technology in agriculture from, quite… Read more »
Everything You Need To Know About Nanopesticides
Modern Farmer by Virginia Gewin Stacey Harper has never been a farmer. In wooded Alsea, Oregon, Harper is more likely to be found hunting elk than sowing seeds. Rather, it’s Harper’s work in the laboratory that links her to the soil. A scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Harper is doggedly researching tiny, human-made… Read more »
Kids and …
The New York Times By Mark Bittman 1. Lunch Credit: Beau Wade Allow me this generalization: Healthy food initiatives threaten profits and are therefore fought or deflected or co-opted at all costs by the producers of hyperprocessed food. This is true even when those costs include producing an increasingly sick population — and a disproportionate… Read more »
Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling
The New York Times by Jennifer Steinhauer WASHINGTON — The farm bill signed by President Obama last month was at first glance the usual boon for soybean growers, catfish farmers and their ilk. But closer examination reveals that the nation’s agriculture policy is increasingly more whole grain than white bread. Within the bill is a significant shift in the… Read more »
Organic Soundbites May Not Be Organic Facts
Cornucopia’s Take: The newsreel spins so fast, it seems even reporters skim the news sometimes. Cornucopia encourages readers to examine studies of interest personally, and not just rely on media coverage. What the latest research actually says (and doesn’t) about organic The Organic Center Source: Casey Lessard Precise analysis of scientific articles isn’t always easy… Read more »
Organic Agriculture: Deeply Rooted in Science and Ecology 66
Grist by Eliot Coleman Organic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, provenance. If you look back at the first flush of notoriety in the 1940s, the names most often… Read more »
