Action Alert: Get Carrageenan Out of Organic Foods!
September 17, 2026
Calls “Animal Welfare” Rulemaking a Betrayal to Farmers and Consumers After years of delay, the United States Department of Agriculture recently released their long-anticipated draft rule to address lapses in organic animal welfare standards. The nation’s most prominent organic industry watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, blasts the proposal as being designed ...
This action alert is over. Broilers, Layer Standards Could Lock-in Favorable Treatment for Factory Farms Comments due by July 13 [Extended from June 13] One of the reasons consumers are willing to pay premium prices for organic milk, meat, and eggs is because they think animals are cared for in ...
OSGATA The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) is a national non-profit membership organization committed to protecting, promoting, and developing the organic seed trade and its growers, thereby assuring that the organic community has access to excellent quality organic seed, free of genetic contaminants and adapted to the diverse ...
The New York Times by Stephanie Strom For the handful of companies working to develop plant-based alternatives to meat, finding a hearty stand-in for the humble hamburger is the holy grail. One of those companies, Beyond Meat, says it has come up with that burger. The company will begin selling ...
Should Corporate Agribusiness Lobbyists and Money Drive Organic Policy? Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) & Pat Roberts (R-KS) Source: USDA Representatives of the largest trade associations in the beef, pork, turkey, and egg industries testified before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. They told Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and ranking minority ...
Center for Food Safety Source: es.dengue.info Public health, food safety and environmental groups including Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth and the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a new and more thorough review of ...
[Cornucopia has re-posted this article for its sole merit, which does not imply endorsement of the author’s opinions expressed elsewhere.] Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Source: Nerissa’s Ring Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco ...
NPR – The Salt by Catherine Welch Source: USDA In Florida, homeowners have a propensity for landscaping. They take great pride in the green carpet of grass in front of their homes. But one Florida man is working on a project that’s turning his neighbors’ lawns into working farms. Chris ...
The Intercept by Sharon Lerner Source: Mike Mozart John Sanders worked in the orange and grapefruit groves in Redlands, California, for more than 30 years. First as a ranch hand, then as a farm worker, he was responsible for keeping the weeds around the citrus trees in check. Roundup, the ...
Los Angeles Times by Geoffrey Mohan Source: LID, by Jonas Ingold Bryce Lundberg is elated, which is saying a lot for a California farmer these days. “Hop on in,” he says, wading into eight acres of ragged stalks, their seed tassels turning russet in the desert sun. Lundberg, 54, soon ...
Rodale’s Organic Life by Therese Ciesinski Source: Sarah Elliott Colonial Williamsburg shows us that when it comes to technique, not much has changed. The wooden yoke around my neck doesn’t hurt at first. I winch up two brimming wooden buckets from the well and attach them to the yoke. Now ...
YouTube by Beyond Pesticides Maine organic potato farmer and Cornucopia advisor Jim Gerritsen speaks to the issue of organic integrity. His remarks were given at the Beyond Pesticides annual conference in April.
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