Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional pork producers pen their hogs in overcrowded barns, spray them with pesticides, provide the cheapest feed available, and store their considerable manure in giant anaerobic lagoons where it is open to the environment and frequently pollutes local watersheds. These cut corners make conventional pork a very “cheap” meat. In contrast, organic hogs… Read more »
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Unregulated GMOs Hiding in the Food Supply
Cornucopia’s Take: The USDA has determined that no regulation is needed for food genetically engineered using new technologies like CRISPR. Even after the proposed GMO labeling law goes into effect, slated for 2019, companies using these new technologies are exempted from labeling their products as genetically modified (see Cornucopia’s GMO Voting Scorecard to learn how… Read more »
FSMA Gets Clearer, But Your Comments are Still Needed
Cornucopia’s Take: New guidance has been released to help farmers make sense of the Food Safety Modernization Act, and we think NSAC’s blog post below provides useful information for farmers. Farmers and other interested parties can comment on the supplemental draft guidance until October 19. FOOD FACILITY REGISTRATION Q&A ADDS CLARITY TO FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS… Read more »
U.S. Government Scientists Find “Inerts” in Roundup More Toxic than Glyphosate Alone
Cornucopia’s Take: The U.S. National Toxicology Program is now analyzing, for the first time, the top-selling glyphosate-based herbicides on the market. They are finding the inert ingredients, added to enhance application and effectiveness of glyphosate, among other things, make the formulations markedly more toxic than glyphosate on its own. Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, has… Read more »
Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy
New York Times By Nicholas D. Kristof FOOD can be depressing. If it’s tasty, it’s carcinogenic. If it’s cheap, animals were tortured. But this, miraculously, is a happy column about food! It’s about a farmer who names all his 230 milk cows, along with his 200 heifers and calves, and loves them like children. Let… Read more »
Organic Group Challenged to Remove Former Board President/Speaker
Celebrity Doctor, Alan Greene, Accused of Unethical Conduct ANAHEIM, CA: On the heels of an emerging corporate influence peddling scandal that has undermined the integrity of the federal organic rulemaking process, The Cornucopia Institute, an industry watchdog, has requested that a speech by Alan Greene, a well-known pediatrician, be canceled at the Natural Foods Expo,… Read more »
How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet
TIME By Lisa Abend On a farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it’s little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it’s finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep. None of this would be remarkable… Read more »
Peanut scare could cost growers $1 billion
Farm Press – Editorial Staff By Paul L. Hollis The impact of the nationwide peanut butter recall has been far reaching and could ultimately cost America’s peanut producers up to $1 billion in lost production and sales, said Don Koehler, executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission, testifying before Congress last month. “Farmers, as small… Read more »
Un-busy Bees a Disaster for Almost Everyone
San Francisco Chronicle By Carolyn Lochhead, Washington Bureau Washington — Could strawberry ice cream disappear from our lives? What about vanilla Swiss almond? The folks at Haagen-Dazs are worried enough that they and others have mounted a campaign to halt the shocking decline of honeybees and other pollinators of strawberry plants, almond trees and the… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) Big Ag/USDA Could Run Organic Leafy Green Growers out of Business!
National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Comments: Due July 28 Action Alert Corporate agribusiness wants to tell the rest of us how to farm, and shut anyone out of the market who does not follow their one-size-fits-all “food safety” standards for leafy green vegetables. The USDA is supporting their plan, which, if accepted, will allow a… Read more »
