Cornucopia’s Take: Organic tomato farmer Dave Chapman discusses the co-evolution of fungi and plants in the soil, the corporate profit motive that is changing organic regulations, and the absurdity of thinking farmers can recreate soil conditions with water and a few bags of fertilizer. How the Hydroponics Industry Is Undermining Everything the Organic Farming Movement… Read more »
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Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Independent Science News by Jonathan R. Latham, PhD cspB, from the Bacillus subtilis bacterium, inserted into the genome of corn plantsSource: BASF By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my… Read more »
GM Cotton: A False Promise for Africa’s Farmers
The Ecologist by Arya Tajdin Used clothing imported in bales harms the local cotton and textile industry. Image source: Judy and Ed The idea that GMO cotton offers hope to Africa’s impoverished cotton farmers is facile and fraudulent, writes Arya Tajdin. In fact it only adds to their vulnerability. Their real problems lie in the structural… Read more »
Day Three (Wednesday) Report: Kowtowing to Corporate Agribusiness?
NOP Deputy Administrator Miles McEvoy Source: USDA Wednesday was the third day of the four-day National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California. At least twice a year the 15-member expert stakeholder panel meets at different locations around the country. The NOSB was created by Congress to represent… Read more »
New Herbicide and GE Seeds: EPA and USDA Poised to Approve Herbicide with Insufficiently Unexamined Cumulative and Long-Term Health Effects
The Pump Handle by Elizabeth Grossman Credit: NRCS If the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) give their approval to a new herbicide called Enlist Duo and to corn and soybean seeds genetically engineered (GE) to resist that chemical, the United States could see a significant increase in what is already one of the country’s most… Read more »
Demand Grows for Hogs That Are Raised Humanely Outdoors
New York Times by Stephanie Strom Credit: LouGold at Visionshare SHUSHAN, N.Y. — Turn down the road to Flying Pigs Farm here, and two or three of Michael Yezzi’s pigs are probably standing in the middle of it. “They’re the welcoming committee,” Mr. Yezzi explained recently. These particular pigs, three Gloucestershire Old Spots that could easily find… Read more »
Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
RT.com By William Engdahl On May 31 world media headlines read “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” But before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. The original source for the story is attributed… Read more »
NOSB Oral Comments, Fall 2024
October 15, 2024 Terry Shistar – Beyond Pesticides (Misc) Hi, my name is Terry Shistar, and I’m on the board of directors of Beyond Pesticides. Please feel free to ask me or Jay about our written comments. What does “Beyond Pesticides” mean? We hope it means “Organic.” We’re focused on 3 intertwined existential crises in… Read more »
Bugs Damaging Monsanto Corn May Do Same to Syngenta Crops
Bloomberg News By Jack Kaskey Rootworms, the most costly pest affecting the U.S. Corn Belt, are showing signs of resistance to Syngenta AG (SYNN)’s genetically modified corn just as they do with crops developed by Monsanto Co. (MON), researchers said at a conference. Switzerland’s Syngenta, the world’s largest producer of crop chemicals, and St. Louis-based… Read more »
‘Pig MRSA’ Came From Humans, Evolved Via Farm Drugs
Wired By Maryn McKenna In the summer of 2004, a 6-month-old girl who lived in the southeastern part of the Netherlands — prime, intensive hog-farming country — went in for surgery for a birth defect of her heart. As is routine in the Netherlands, which has excellent hospital infection control, she was checked before surgery… Read more »
