Choosing the Healthiest Organic Snack Bar Brands [This article was previously published in the summer issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Linley Dixon, PhD, Senior Scientist at The Cornucopia Institute Source: Adobe Stock Snack bars are a highly profitable $8 billion industry, posting double-digit annual growth rates. A small, but growing, percentage of the… Read more »
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Conventional Dairy Image Belies Toxic Reality
Cornucopia’s Take: The image of tranquil cows gladly giving their healthy milk is only PR spin hiding the reality of many conventional cows living on concrete and eating toxins. Consumers’ first choice should be organic dairy. Will Allen & Michael Colby: Dairy Marketing vs. Reality VT Digger by Will Allen and Michael Colby Editor’s note:… Read more »
Food Issues Still Not on Politicians’ Radar
Cornucopia’s Take: With the public increasingly concerned with food quality, sustainability, and food safety, these issues don’t grab much attention from elected officials (outside of GMO labeling and ethanol). But food politics cuts across political lines and may yet provoke more attention from lawmakers. When Will Food Issues Be on Politicians’ Plates? The New York Times… Read more »
Cornucopia Response: Washington Post Opinion Writer Misses the Mark on Organics
Tamar Haspel’s recent opinion piece on organic versus conventional agriculture missed the handicap that organics has in documenting its many benefits to society. Ms. Haspel suggested she was using “neutral” scientists to make an (organic) apple to (conventional) apple comparison. However, relying on the USDA, overwhelmingly committed to biotechnology and agrochemicals, or land-grant university researchers,… Read more »
U.S. Forced to Import Corn as Shoppers Demand Organic Food
Chicago Tribune by Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg News Source: Paul Townsend & OR Dept. of Agriculture Washington — A growing demand for organics, and the near-total reliance by U.S. farmers on genetically modified corn and soybeans, is driving a surge in imports from other nations where crops largely are free of bioengineering. Imports such as corn… Read more »
Unreleased FDA Testing Reveals Glyphosate in Common Household Foods
Cornucopia’s Take: As glyphosate is sprayed on corn, soy, wheat, and oat crops in rising amounts, it is finding its way into cereals, crackers, and many other products on grocery store shelves. Unfortunately, the FDA is under no obligation to share their full findings with public, unless the public files a freedom of information request,… Read more »
Can You Clone an Organic Cow?
By Jim Riddle On December 28, 2006, the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Draft Risk Assessment on meat and milk from cloned animals. The FDA concluded that animal cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), “results in an increased frequency of health risks to animals… Read more »
Stop the USDA Political Bureaucrats and Corporate Lobbyists from Hijacking the Independence of the National Organic Standards Board
This Action Alert is over. [See Cornucopia’s comprehensive analysis, including a side-by-side comparison of the new draft and existing PPM] Act by 11:59 PM (Eastern) this Thursday, April 14 Fall 2015 NOSB Meeting Tell NOSB members to table changes to their policy and procedures manual (PPM) The National Organic Standard Board’s (NOSB) Policy and Procedures Manual (PPM) was… Read more »
Organic Farming at Risk
“Organic without soil is like democracy without people.” Organic farmers from all over New England rallied in Vermont on Sunday, October 30, to protest the eroding organic standards of the USDA—particularly the federal government’s decision to permit labeling of hydroponic fruits and vegetables as “organic.” Senator Leahy speaking U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, a long time… Read more »
Dirty Money, Dirty Science
FoodTank by Doug Gurian-Sherman Source: Capt. Spaulding The biotech industry’s web of attempts to buy credibility, by laundering its messages through supposedly independent academic scientists, is unraveling and beginning to reveal the influence of huge amount of industry money on the independence of academic agricultural science. Some of this process was revealed recently in The… Read more »
