The New York Times THE FEED By Andrew Martin The traditional idea of agricultural cooperatives is that farmers have more muscle to negotiate prices when they band together. At the nation’s largest dairy cooperative, the Dairy Farmers of America, it hasn’t always worked that way. The group’s executives have often seemed more concerned about pleasing… Read more »
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America’s Largest Corporate Dairy Processor Muscles Its Way into Organics
Clout-Heavy Dean Foods Kills USDA Investigation of Their Horizon Label The Cornucopia Institute CORNUCOPIA, WI: After a three-and-a-half year battle with Dean Foods regarding the legality of milk it labels as Horizon Organic, the country’s most aggressive organic industry watchdog filed additional legal actions today. Dean, the nation’s largest dairy processor, with nearly $12 billion… Read more »
Inspectors Didn’t Catch Cattle Abuse in California
The Des Moines Register (link no longer available) By Philip Brasher, Register Washington Bureau Washington, D.C. — The undercover videos were bad enough: packing-plant workers abusing sick or disabled cattle and dragging at least one of the cows to be slaughtered, a violation of federal food-safety standards. But consumer advocates say what’s also disturbing is what… Read more »
NEWS ADVISORY: 90% Sprout Contamination Conventional, Not Organic (Linked to Factory Farm Livestock Production)
AP 6-6-11: “In a surprising U-turn, German officials said initial tests published Monday provided no evidence that sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany were the cause of the country’s deadly E. coli outbreak.” Quotations attributable to Mark A. Kastel, Codirector and Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy research… Read more »
EU to Vote on Admitting GM Food
Wall Street Journal By Caroline Henshaw LONDON—After years of political wrangling by European Union policy makers, rising food prices may be putting genetically modified, or GM, food on the menu. Officials are set to vote Tuesday on whether to allow trace amounts of unauthorized GM material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say could herald… Read more »
Free trade: As U.S. corn flows south, Mexicans stop farming
McClatchy Washington Bureau Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers SAN JERONIMO SOLOLA, Mexico — Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast areas of Mexico, and one sees few young men, just elderly people and single mothers. “The men have gone to the United States,” explained Abel Santiago Duran, a 56-year-old municipal… Read more »
5 Myths about hunger in America
Washington Post By Robert Egger No one goes hungry in America. 1. Hunger is supposed to happen in other places – in distant countries where droughts or storms or famine compel us to donate money and oblige our government to send relief workers and food aid. In reality, hunger also hits much closer to home…. Read more »
Local, Organic Farms Are the Future
Litchfield County Times By Cynthia Rabinowitz “Math Lessons For Locavores,” an Op-Ed by Stephen Budiansky in the Aug. 20 New York Times, missed the mark, I believe, on eating locally. Using facts and figures, Mr. Budiansky refuted the claim that eating locally is beneficial. But, by limiting his observations to only one issue, that of… Read more »
On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control
Science Centric Proponents of organic farming often speak of nature’s balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naive. At the other end of the spectrum are those who see farms as battlefields where insect pests and plant diseases must be vanquished with the magic bullets of modern… Read more »
Should Whole Foods, like Google, get out of China?
The Energy Collective by Marc Gunther Google is exiting China for a number of reasons, including the hacking of its data, but fundamentally, Google found that it couldn’t live up to its values of openness in a repressive society. Whole Foods Market has a different China problem: The company imports lots of organic food from… Read more »
