Beyond Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides, August 7, 2014) Residents of St. Louis, Michigan aren’t used to seeing large excavators and dump trucks haul piles of dirt from their front yards or entire blocks of big, neighborhood trees felled. What they are used to seeing are dead birds —sometimes even spontaneous, mid-flight deaths of the birds— and… Read more »
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The F.D.A.’s Blatant Failure on Food
New York Times By Ruth Reichl EVERY year, antibiotic-resistant infections kill at least 23,000 Americans and make another two million sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s why a recent ruling by the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals is so appalling. It allows the federal Food and Drug Administration… Read more »
Roundup Chemical Doubles Your Risk of Lymphoma
A major new review finds this “safe” weed killer is anything but harmless. Rodale News by Leah Zerbe There’s been a striking increase in the number of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases over the past three decades, and a major new scientific review suggests chemical pesticides—particularly glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup—are playing an… Read more »
The Other Bees
Modern Farmer by Kristin Ohlson Credit: Rennett Stowe There are thousands and thousands of bees that are not honeybees out there, pollinating our flowers and helping plants produce food. Who knew? Hear that hum as a bumblebee settles onto a tomato blossom? It’s a faint but powerful sound: The bee is working hard. It’s grabbing… Read more »
Farmacology: What Business Can Learn From Sustainable Farming
Medical and business communities can take surprising lessons from farming and improve employee wellbeing and productivity The Guardian By Judith D Schwartz Frustrated that conventional medicine had little to offer many of her patients, Daphne Miller, a practicing physician and professor of family medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, decided to take… Read more »
Gene-Altered Food Fight Rages On as Oregon Takes Lead
Bloomberg.com By Alison Vekshin The battle over genetically modified food labeling that’s drawn almost $85 million in campaign donations in little more than a year is moving to Oregon after industry opponents defeated drives in California and all but certainly in Washington state. Oregon advocates are pushing ahead with a pair of labeling initiatives for the 2014… Read more »
Florida Farm Workers Allege Pesticide Exposure Is Giving Them Cancer
Fox News Latino By Carmen Sesín Marta Cruz left Michoacán, Mexico with her husband and 1-year-old son a decade and a half ago to work in the fields of Homestead, Florida, picking lemons and tomatoes as farm workers. A couple of years ago, she began suffering from headaches but figured it was from the long… Read more »
Rep. Ellen Story Seeks Labels for Foods Made With Genetically Modified Organisms
GazetteNet.com (MA) By RICHIE DAVIS Gazette Contributing Writer On the one hand, Rep. Ellen Story, D-Amherst, says her constituents include scientists who insist there’s no health danger from eating genetically engineered foods in small quantities. On the other hand, plenty of her constituents are very concerned that genetically modified foods are dangerously toxic or at… Read more »
‘Plowing Old Ground’ Exhibit Puts Focus on Vermont’s Organic Farming Pioneers
Brattleboro Reformer By Jon Potter BRATTLEBORO — Time was when “organic” was a word of the lunatic fringe, and nobody had ever heard of “localvores.” Time was when there weren’t co-ops or CSAs or farmers’ markets in our local food system when nobody was even thinking there was such a thing as a “local food… Read more »
Consumer Reports Tests: Bacteria On Turkey Raised Without Antibiotics Showed Significantly Less Antibiotic Resistance Than Bacteria On Conventional Turkey
Ninety percent of samples had one or more of the five bacteria for which CR tested Consumer Reports Yonkers, NY — In its first-ever lab analysis of ground turkey products, Consumer Reports found potential disease-causing organisms in most of the samples it tested, many of which proved resistant to more than three antibiotic drug classes…. Read more »
