To see how Cornucopia rates your favorite poultry brand, access our mobile-friendly scorecard. More information is available in Cornucopia’s report, For the Birds: How to Recognize Authentic Organic Chicken and Turkey. Background: Organic chicken and turkey Chicken is a “gateway meat” into organic eating. According to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, organic chicken is purchased by more… Read more »
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USDA Rejects Advice of Expert Panel
Inflammatory/carcinogenic food additive carrageenan reapproved for use in organics Report Exposes Food Industry Cover-up: Widespread Contamination Present in the Common Food-Grade Ingredient A highly controversial natural food substance, carrageenan, a seaweed derivative used in conventional, “natural,” and some organic foods, was just reapproved by USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue. This move overrides the recommendation of the… Read more »
Turmoil Shakes National Organics Standards Board Meeting in Texas
Board Decision Making Colored by Restrictions to Authority and Governance Imposed by USDA CORNUCOPIA, WI – Protests, an arrest and parliamentary maneuvers marked the beginning of the semi-annual meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). After the initial turmoil subsided its members wrestled with the implications of widely criticized changes to its authority… Read more »
Are These Nicotine-Like Insecticides Killing Bees?
Modern Farmer by Brett Essler Source: William Warby Halfway between Düsseldorf and Cologne lies Monheim am Rhein, Germany, a town of about 40,000 tucked into a bend of the Upper Rhine River. Here you will find the Bayer CropScience Facility, a sprawling, 160-acre campus that is home to the Bee Care Center, where the 150-year-old company’s top… Read more »
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World’s Best Eggs (Coyote Creek Farm)
They say: “World’s Best Eggs brand pasture raised, organic eggs are produced at Coyote Creek Organic Farm. All World’s Best Eggs laying hens live outdoors. The hens enjoy sunshine every day and are able to fully express their natural chicken behaviors like scratching in the dirt, hunting for bugs, and foraging for plants in the… Read more »
GM crop escapes into the American wild
Transgenic canola found growing freely in North Dakota Nature Natasha Gilbert A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United States. Transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North Dakota, researchers told the Ecological Society of America conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, today. The scientists… Read more »
Great EGGspectations
Flavor Magazine (this link no longer available) by Adrienne Wichard-Edds Nine years ago, after the birth of my first son meant that I was responsible for the nutrition of another life form, I began educating myself on the reasons to eat organic, local, and grass-fed. “You better not mess this up” was the sign that flashed… Read more »
