Many family-scale organic and direct marketing farmers consider this an economic threat to their businesses The USDA continues to hold public meetings to discuss its “new framework” for animal traceability (formally known as the National Animal Identification System or NAIS). The agency has stated that this new framework will apply only to animals that cross… Read more »
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Produce Safety Bill May Make Farmer’s Markets A Thing Of The Past
The Raleigh Telegram By Olivia Barrow RALEIGH – With the U.S. Senate preparing to overhaul the nation’s food safety laws through a bill that passed committee called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (S510), Senator Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) has co-sponsored an amendment to exempt small farmers from the added safety requirements of the bill…. Read more »
Corporate Baking Giant Sara Lee Hijacks Organics
“EcoGrain” Marketing Blitz — Greenwashing New Bread Produced with Toxic Agrochemicals as Something Better Than Organic Cornucopia, Wisconsin: With the growing success of organics, and increasing consumer interest in buying foods that were grown on sustainable farms without toxic chemicals, Sara Lee Corporation has launched, with much fanfare, a marketing campaign for its EarthGrains bread,… Read more »
Scientists Study Possible Link Between Ethanol Byproduct and E. coli
The Des Moines Register By Philip Brasher Register Washington Bureau Washington, D.C. – A nationwide surge in beef recalls has pointed the finger at an unlikely culprit – the nation’s fuel ethanol industry. Studies at two universities suggest that feeding cattle a byproduct of ethanol production known as distillers grains may increase levels of a… Read more »
Factory Farm Producing “Organic” Milk Shut Down
Industry Coalition Demanding Organic Integrity Prevails PIXLEY, CA: After a seven-year-long battle between organic farmers and consumers and the USDA, the first of a handful of industrial-scale dairies, producing what they claimed was organic milk, has been shut down by regulatory authorities. It was announced today by an organic industry watchdog group that a 10,000-cow… Read more »
Organic Watchdog, USDA Headed to Court
Agency Accused of Refusing to Enforce Law CORNUCOPIA, WI: In a letter sent today, the Cornucopia Institute informed the USDA of their intention to file a complaint in federal district court accusing the agency of ignoring the organic regulations, and the intent of Congress, by their failure to enforce the law. The impending lawsuit is… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) – USDA Unveils Grass-Fed Meat Label
Farmer and Consumer Feedback to USDA Needed by August 10 Consumers and family-scale farmers and ranchers could be big winners if a proposed new USDA standard for grass-fed livestock wins approval. But for this to occur, the USDA must hear from consumers that they want simple changes made to the draft that clarifies the grass-fed… Read more »
Altered Crops in Europe: At What Cost?
By Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune ALBONS, Spain: Enric Navarro was dumbfounded when the letter arrived from the testing lab of the Spanish organic farmers association in late February, informing him that his organic crop contained 12 percent genetically modified corn. Hearing that his plants had been modified by biotechnology was almost as traumatic for… Read more »
Dairy Debate
USDA investigation into local company puts spotlight on fight over organic labeling By Ben Ready The Longmont Daily Times-Call PLATTEVILLE — Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are formally investigating a local dairy after receiving complaints last year from a Wisconsin farming activist group made up of organic purists. But as much as the… Read more »
Berry Farmer’s Suit Stuns Organic Goliaths
Lax labeling claim gains steam in court By Andrew Martin Tribune national correspondent August 11, 2005 HARTFORD, Maine — Arthur Harvey, an organic blueberry farmer, lives in a 168-year-old house with an outhouse out back and a solar panel on the roof, which he uses to power his computer. He doesn’t care for pesticides or… Read more »
