Organic Advocates Railing Against Industry/Obama Administration Power Grab As collateral damage spreads, with Congress continuing at loggerheads over a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government, the newest victims include farmers and consumers who depend on the USDA to oversee the propriety and integrity of the organic industry. In a unique regulatory structure, Congress created… Read more »
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FDA Food Safety Rules Threaten to Crush the Good Food Movement
New Report Suggests Proposed Rules Could Drive the Nation’s Safest and Best Farmers Out of Business After years of deliberation in Congress, interagency meetings, lobbyist activity, and a never-ending stream of food poisoning outbreaks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally poised to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). However, according to a… Read more »
Canada Declares Farm Use of Neonicotinoids “Unsustainable”
Beyond Pesticides Last Friday, Health Canada released new measures the agency claims are intended to protect bees from exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides. As with recent regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), beekeepers and environmental groups are criticizing the measures as inadequate, not going far enough to protect domesticated honey bees that both… Read more »
Concerns Over Organic Commodity Check-off Proposal Swirling in Advance of Nation’s Largest Organic Farming Conference
Proposal by Industry Trade/Lobby Group Could Tax Farmers for Research and Promotion La Crosse, WI – As organic farmers and enthusiasts begin gathering for the nation’s largest organic farming conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin, a number of questions and concerns are being posed about a proposal to create a federal market order and commodity check-off… Read more »
Years In the Making: Organic Welfare Rule (Way) Too Little / (Way) Too Late
New Rulemaking Capitulates to Industrial Livestock Interests On January 18 the USDA announced the publication of new regulations purportedly improving the welfare of livestock on certified organic farms. The law, years in the making, was sparked after wide outcry from family-scale organic farmers, and their consumers, concerning “factory farms” producing organic milk, meat, and eggs…. Read more »
Organic Industry Watchdog Asks DOJ to Block Merger
France’s Groupe Danone’s purchase of WhiteWave would combine Stonyfield, Horizon and Wallaby to Dominate the Organic Dairy Market The French dairy giant, Groupe Danone (Dannon in the U.S.) has announced the proposed acquisition of WhiteWave Foods for approximately $10 billion. The deal would combine the world’s largest organic yogurt brand, Stonyfield, with Wallaby, a rapidly… Read more »
Food & Power Newsletter: Is an Organic Checkoff Supported By Farmers?
Food & Power Source: jirotrom There’s a battle happening in organic farming, and it’s not about labeling or the setting of standards. In May, the Organic Trade Association submitted a revised proposal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to impose a special tax on organic farming. Called a “checkoff,” this tax would apply to all… Read more »
Only Anti-GMO Hippies Grow Organic Corn, Right? Wrong.
Farm Journal by Chris Bennett Source: Astrid Albert Hippies and anti-GMO zealots grow organic crops. Right? Wrong. Timothy Gertson kicks up dirt off Texas’ Gulf Coast, southwest of Houston in Wharton County. He’s a young 31, but Gertson is an old-school farmer with no time for ideology and no wish to curb his options. Field… Read more »
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Follow the National Organic Standards Board Meeting in St. Louis, MO #NOSB
Last Updated: 11-18-16, 5:30 p.m. CT Join The Cornucopia Institute as we live tweet from the National Organic Standards Board meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. We will be sharing the play by play with our Twitter followers under #NOSB or simply follow our stream. If you’re not already following us on Twitter, please do so here…. Read more »
