Arla signs organic milk deal with Lidl Dairy group Arla Foods has signed an organic dairy supply deal with discount retailer Lidl, as big food firms increasingly move in on rising consumer demand for organic food. Arla will use some of its 347m kg of organic milk it handles in Denmark to supply private label… Read more »
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Farmers, Advocates Launch Raw Milk Institute
Food Safety News by Cookson Beecher The much-anticipated Raw Milk Institute has gone live. The brainchild of Mark McAfee, co-owner of Organic Pastures near Fresno, CA, the institute introduced its website — www.rawmilkinstitute.org — on Tuesday. Simply put, the goal of the institute is to use science-based food-safety principles to shore up a strong foundation… Read more »
Monsanto Tries to Hush Weed Scientists Telling the Truth About Dicamba
Cornucopia’s Take: With Monsanto’s dicamba-based GMO seed line already on the market, scientists finally have the opportunity to test the new formulation for volatility. Monsanto is blaming farmers for spraying incorrectly, and now has the EPA on board, but weed scientists are deeply troubled by their testing results as well as the unprecedented number of… Read more »
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 »
Former Dairy Farmer Jim Goodman: My Retirement was Mostly Voluntary
Mark Kastel and Jim Goodman with Jim’s Cows Cornucopia’s Take: I’m proud to call Jim Goodman a valued friend. We met 25 years ago, when I worked as a lobbyist for the Farmers Union and Jim was an activist with Family Farm Defenders. He’s a good man. Intellectually powerful, as you can tell by his writing,… Read more »
Trump Supports Taxes on Foreign Food
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia will earnestly engage with the Trump administration pick for USDA Secretary, Sonny Perdue, once he is confirmed and other agency appointments are made. It remains unclear how Trump’s support for tarrifs, under the guise of food safety, will sit with consumers. Leaked Audio: Trump Cares About Food Safety But Only If the Food… Read more »
Don’t Toss That Sour Milk! And Other Tips To Cut Kitchen Food Waste
NPR – The Salt by Allison Aubrey One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. As we show in the video above, this is what chef Dan Barber demonstrated earlier this year, when he temporarily turned Blue Hill, his Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City, into an incubator for garbage-to-plate dining. Barber’s intent was to raise… Read more »
Neighbors Raise Stink Over Strawberry Farm’s Pesticide
The Tampa Tribune by Yvette C. Hammett Source: Isaac Shepherd DOVER — Ronnie Young spent hours over the past couple of weeks knocking on neighbors’ doors. He was not making social calls. Young, a farmer in east Hillsborough County, was alerting neighbors that he was about to apply fumigant to a portion of the 400… Read more »
Using Company Science and Lawyers to Protect Industry Dishonesty
Cornucopia’s Take: Industry frequently makes its own science to back its products. Cornucopia has watched, in the food sector, industry players stack the regulatory deck in their favor. When corporations cannot circumvent the law, they hire lawyers to do it for them. Cornucopia remains committed to speaking truth to power and helping citizens vote with… Read more »
How To Bring Back Butterflies: Make Vineyards Sustainable
Modern Farmer by Dan Nosowitz Source: millerm217 Butterfly numbers have taken a disastrous plummet in recent years. But a new study finds that lower pesticide use in vineyards leads to hugely increased numbers of everyone’s favorite insect. Butterfly numbers are frighteningly low around the world; last year found that numbers of monarch butterflies in Mexico,… Read more »
