Cornucopia’s Take: Pesticide drift is a known problem for organic farmers—and it’s also a problem for the health of all children. These toxic synthetic pesticides are not allowed in organics. In California’s farm belt, ‘pesticide drift’ has residents worried about their health CBC News by Kim Brunhuber Source: Tony Masiello Residents want new laws to… Read more »
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Produce Trucks to Make Fresh Foods More Accessible
Detroit Free Press By Joe Rossiter A pilot program designed to offer Detroiters healthier food choices and easier access to fresh fruits and vegetables was announced Tuesday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm outside Peaches & Green, a produce store in Detroit. Operating much like ice cream vendors, trucks bearing fresh fruits and vegetables and sporting logos… Read more »
Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
[Cornucopia has re-posted this article for its sole merit, which does not imply endorsement of the author’s opinions expressed elsewhere.] Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Source: Nerissa’s Ring Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that… Read more »
Demand Real Organic Food from Real Organic Farmers
Sign the Proxy Asking Major Retailers to Offer Genuine Organic Choices We need the stores we shop at to quit trying to sell us fake organic food from inhumane livestock factories, masquerading as organic, or hydroponic vegetables fertilized with conventional soybeans and grown in ground up coconut waste … or even ground up recycled plastic!… Read more »
Demand Real Organic Food from Real Organic Farmers!
[Download the proxy here.] Sign the Proxy Asking Major Retailers to Offer Genuine Organic Choices We need the stores we shop at to quit trying to sell us fake organic food from inhumane livestock factories, masquerading as organic, or hydroponic vegetables fertilized with conventional soybeans and grown in ground up coconut waste … or even… Read more »
Tyson Foods Dumps More Than 18 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Into America’s Waterways Each Year
Natural News by Jonathan Benson Source: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project Our most precious natural resource, clean water, is threatened by the continued environmental release of toxic chemicals from heavy industry, which includes the factory food industry. Four of the top 10 worst polluters in the U.S. today, according to a new report, are food manufacturing companies,… Read more »
Lone Star Organic All-Stars
by Elizabeth Wolf [Cameron Molberg manages Coyote Creek Farm, just east of Austin. It is the only commercial source of organic feed between Texas and North Carolina. In early 2015 he was nominated for a position on The Cornucopia Institute’s formal Policy Advisory Panel.] Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill was founded in 2007 Today the mill… Read more »
Record Crowd Tours Organic Farms
Just One Seed and Purely Meats hosted the second in a series of farm tours around Bucks County Doylestown-Buckingham-New Britain Patch [PA] By Ann Biggs A record-breaking crowd that spanned all ages feasted on summer dishes and learned about organic farming just north of Doylestown on Wednesday. From the tiniest infant carried in its mother’s… Read more »
Organic Manifesto, by Rodale Chairman & CEO Maria Rodale
Rodale EMMAUS, Pa.– Rodale has announced the release of Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe by Rodale Chairman & CEO Maria Rodale. Organic Manifesto cuts through the confusion and misinformation to provide an indispensable and highly readable look at why chemical-free farming unquestionably holds the… Read more »
Global Organic Foods & Beverages Market to Exceed $86 Billion by 2009
San Jose, CA — The global organic foods and beverages market is delivering strong double-digit annual growth as health and well-being moves up high on the consumer’s priority list. Outbreak of recent food scares, rising awareness of the long-term health impact of pesticidal residues in food, unhealthy ingredients such as carbohydrates, fat, calories and hydrogenated… Read more »
