Grain by La Via Campesina Click here to download full-size poster Seeds are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. Seed saving, a thousand-year-old practice which forms the basis of farming, is fast becoming criminalised. What can… Read more »

Fast Company by Adele Peters A food desert in Louisville will soon become one of the biggest havens for local food in the country. Louisville Skyline Source: David Kidd A factory in Louisville, Kentucky, made chewing tobacco for over a century before folding in 2009. Now the abandoned site is a symbol of how the… Read more »

Symposium Free for the Public and Government Officials through Live Streaming Weston A. Price Foudnation Source: Denis Gustavo The annual raw milk symposium presented by the Weston A. Price Foundation will be available to the public and to government officials through livestreaming (and archived). The session will feature raw milk experts and activists, including Mark… Read more »

Voice of America By Deborah Block BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND — In June, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a federal strategy to promote the health of bees and other pollinators that have been declining. The honeybee has been waning due to parasites, disease, pesticides and farming. Wild bees may be used to take over their role… Read more »

“Our Raw Milk in Jeopary” Says Lawyer The Complete Patient By David Gumpert Despite my disparaging view of the prosecution in the Alvin Schlangen case, the six-person jury had its own view, and it wasn’t the same as mine or others on this blog. After nearly four hours of deliberation on Thursday, it convicted the… Read more »

The Telegraph (GA) By Dean Fosdick — For the Associated Press An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but maybe less so if you spray. That’s why organic fruit management is becoming more common in commercial and home orchards, industry analysts say. “The problem with using chemicals to fix problems is that the chemicals… Read more »

The Daily Journal Written by Michele S. Byers Do you know who grows your food? Chances are, it’s a farmer nearing retirement. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study shows that the average age of the American farmer is 55 … and climbing. At the same time, young farmers under 25 are declining. That should not… Read more »

[Note:  The use of antibiotics in the production of organic food from organic livestock is expressly prohibited in the U.S.] Daily Mail (UK) By Christine Show The roughly eight million women developing bladder infections in the United States every year may be getting a form of the illness resistant to antibiotics from the chicken they… Read more »

National Farmers Organization Ray Scheesley Nestled in the rolling foothills of Allegany County on the outskirts of the two-college town of Alfred, NY, lays a small but quaint 50 cow Certified Organic dairy farm named Sunny Cove. Jerry and Dottie Snyder, along with their 8 children, operate a not so typical “raw milk permitted” Organic… Read more »

Examiner.com Seattle Pet Laws Examiner: Jean-Pierre Ruiz In testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Dr. Dean Wyatt testified as to how the agency supports unhealthy practices at the national slaughterhouses and endangers the nation’s meat food supply. Dr. Wyatt, a public health supervisory veterinarian with the USDA’s Food and Safety Inspection… Read more »