Some Restaurants, Grocers Prefer Food Grown Locally
Washington Post
By Alejandro Lazo
American Flatbread in Ashburn sits a few turns off the Dulles Greenway on the cusp of burgeoning suburbia. Parked in a strip shopping center behind a McDonald’s and sharing a wall with a Glory Days Grill, this is an unlikely place to find a food […]
Some farmers in China are taking advantage of confusing rules to falsely label food
Business Week
By Chi-Chu Tschang
The word “wholesome” doesn’t exactly spring to mind when describing Chinese exports these days. But for years now, Chinese farmers have fed soaring global demand for organic foods. China’s organic exports totaled $350 million in 2005 (the […]
Arrangement puts eggs, milk, veggies from Mennonite, Amish farmers on store shelves
DesMoines Register
By Jerry Perkins
Wellman, Ia. - Farmers farm. Marketers market.
In the case of some Amish and Mennonite farmers in southeast Iowa and the marketing firm Kalona Organics, the twain shall meet to bridge the gap between producers and urban consumers.
Organic food has been the […]
The House is expected to vote on the Farm Bill on Thursday, July 26. Please call your representative immediately to express your support for these key important items:
Urge your representative to support Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), to reject any attempts to weaken or further delay COOL, or to make it voluntary; and to […]