The Cornucopia Institute

The following is the exact language that the National Organic Standards Board adopted on August 16 for pasture and dairy cows and other ruminants.

Twenty-nine groups and organizations have endorsed the proposed pasture guidance document for dairy cows and other ruminants and have urged the National Organics Standards Board (NOSB) to adopt it at its August 15-17 meeting in Washington, D.C .

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 herbicides, believing many of them aren’t necessary and possibly are dangerous, and he decries modern plumbing because it fails to recycle the nutrients in human waste, which when composted properly can be turned into fertilizer.

Despite his off-the-grid lifestyle, Harvey has used the most conventional of means to turn the nation’s booming organic industry on its head.

THE GREAT, life-saving medical advance of the 20th century was the discovery of antibiotics. Now, in the 21st century, the effectiveness of these miracle drugs is being undercut by their misuse in both people and animals.