Connecting to Southern Agriculture in Charleston [Previously printed in Acres USA] By Julie Ann Fineman Co-authored by J. Lee Glenn Photography courtesy of Julie Ann Fineman Around the world people are waking up to the negative impacts of our industrialized food system as alarming stories continue to flood the news: a loss of biodiversity, degraded… Read more »
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Veteran Organic Grower Questions What Technologies are Appropriate in Organics
Steve Sprinkel is a certified organic farmer from Ojai, California, where he also operates the Farmer and the Cook, a restaurant and market serving organic fare. He has held numerous leadership positions in the organic movement, including having acted as the board chair of The Cornucopia Institute. He currently sits on Cornucopia’s formal policy advisory… Read more »
Scientists Advising Government on Biotechnology Financially Tied to Outcome
Cornucopia’s Take: Committee scientists with reported and unreported vested interests connected to the biotechnology industry are advising the White House on future biotech policy. These conflicts of interest pose a danger to accurately and clearly assessing the health and environmental issues in biotechnology, especially if they negatively impact biotechnology economics. National Biotechnology Panel Faces New… Read more »
God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and the Three Myths of Precise Genome Editing
Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD CRISPR gene editing involves guide RNA and a protein that can cut DNA. Image source: Georgios Karamanis For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public relations blitz is at full tilt. It concerns an emerging set of methods… Read more »
Follow the National Organic Standards Board Meeting in Stowe, VT #NOSB
Last Updated: 10-29-15, 4:27 p.m. ET Join The Cornucopia Institute as we live tweet from the National Organic Standards Board meeting in Stowe, Vermont. 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 »
How Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Seed Freedom by Dr. Vandana Shiva Source: World Bank Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families. Despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food, big business is doing everything it can to prevent people from accessing their rights…. Read more »
Linux for Lettuce
Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time. OpenSource.com by Lisa Hamilton Image Courtesy of Rich Marolda From a distance, Jim Myers looks like an ordinary farmer. Most autumn mornings, he stands thigh-deep in a field of wet broccoli, beheading each plant with a single, sure swipe of his harvest knife…. Read more »
Wildfires Rage at New Mexican Organic Meetings
Farmers, Consumers and Public Interest Groups Square off Against Corporate Interests ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Passions flared at the semiannual meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the federal advisory panel approved a number of synthetic ingredients for use in organics, over the objection of the majority of… Read more »
Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
Yes! Magazine by Roger Bybee Will Allen is bringing farming and fresh foods back into city neighborhoods. At the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, in a neighborhood of boxy post-WWII homes near the sprawling Park Lawn housing project, stand 14 greenhouses arrayed on two acres of land. This is Growing Power, the only land within the… Read more »
USDA Inspector General Finds Bush Administration Ignored Organic Laws
New Management at USDA Reforms, Strengthens National Organic Program WASHINGTON, DC: After an extensive audit and investigation of alleged improprieties at the USDA’s National Organic Program, the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) made public their formal report, dated March 9, substantiating the allegations of prominent organic industry watchdog groups — that under the Bush… Read more »
