Claims that “organic” milk sold to Target and Wal-Mart was conventional highlight a dispute over dairy-farm practices.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Matt McKinney
Ever wonder how Target Corp. could sell its organic milk for dollars less than other stores? Turns out the milk might not have been truly organic after all.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) […]
Wall Street Journal
By Scott Kilman
Rising prices and surging demand for the crops that supply half of the world’s calories are producing the biggest changes in global food markets in 30 years, altering the economic landscape for everyone from consumers and farmers to corporate giants and the world’s poor.
“The days of cheap grain are gone,” says […]
San Francisco Chronicle - Washington Bureau
Carolyn Lochhead
Davenport, Santa Cruz County — A cell of an insurgency operates from an idyllic little berry farm perched on the coastal terraces north of Santa Cruz.
“Chemical strawberries” are doomed, and so is the industrial agriculture model and the politicians who sustain it, warns Jim Cochran, owner of the […]
Secret USDA Enforcement Action Revealed
CORNUCOPIA, WI: In a startling revelation The Cornucopia Institute is making public a new document indicating that not only did the USDA find that the nation’s largest organic factory-farm dairy operator “willfully” violate the federal organic standards, but that one of its certifiers, the Colorado Department of Agriculture, had, also, […]