Cattle Network Whether you’re a foodie or just a food lover … Whether your tastes lean towards comfort food or haute cuisine, the POV (Point of View) series invites you to get your pots, pans, televisions, computers and friends ready for the special broadcast of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., on Wednesday, April 21,… Read more »
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Business as Usual?
Why we shouldn’t forget the Farm Bill Grist by Aimee Witteman Last Wednesday, Monsanto announced that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) approved a pilot program that will give farmers a 20 percent discount on insurance premiums if they plant a majority of their corn acres with seeds featuring Monsanto’s trademarked YieldGard Plus with Roundup… Read more »
The Cornucopia Institute Alleges Factory Farms Violating Federal Organic Law
CORNUCOPIA, WISCONSIN: The Cornucopia Institute, today, filed a formal complaint with the USDA’s National Organic Program asking them to initiate an investigation into alleged violations of the federal organic law by a factory farm operating in Colorado. At issue is whether it is legal to confine cows in an industrial setting, without access to pasture,… Read more »
Letter to the Editor from Anna Blythe Lappe
Letter to the Editor from Anna Blythe Lappé, Small Planet Institute A good friend of Cornucopia, Anna Blythe Lappé, Food and Society Policy Fellow, WK Kellogg Foundation and Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute takes one of the most relentless, and ideologically unwavering, critics of organic food, Alex Avery, to the woodshed… Dear Editor, I don’t… Read more »
A Brief History of Parity Pricing and the Present Day Ramifications of the Abandonment of a Par Economy
By Kevin Engelbert, Organic Dairy Farmer, Nichols, NY The basic premise of parity pricing is the belief that the selling price of a product or produce should go up or down in the same amount as the prices of the inputs used in its production. Another way to phrase the idea of parity price: the… Read more »
Amazon Meeting with Grass-fed Beef Producers in Georgia
Cornucopia’s Take: It remains to be seen what Amazon has in store for grass-fed beef producers. We will share the results of this secret meeting when the story is available. What’s on the table at Amazon’s secret meeting with cattle ranchers? The New Food Economy by Joe Fassler Source: USDA Another day, another sign of… Read more »
Misgivings About How a Weed Killer Affects the Soil
The New York Times by Stephanie Strom Source: canvas blank ALTON, Iowa — The puny, yellow corn stalks stand like weary sentries on one boundary of Dennis Von Arb’s field here. On a windy day this spring, his neighbor sprayed glyphosate on his fields, and some of the herbicide blew onto Mr. Von Arb’s conventionally… Read more »
Why a Food You Have Never Heard of Could be Key to Feeding the World
The Washington Post by Joe Yonan Source: Brian Moen If you’re trying to shift your diet toward more nutritious foods — and, especially this time of year, who isn’t? — you need to make friends with dried beans, chickpeas and lentils, if you haven’t already. Their nutritional benefits are legendary. Just one example: Studies of… Read more »
14 Food Resolutions to Bring in The New Year
Food Tank By Danielle Nierenberg As we enter 2014, there are still nearly one billion people suffering from hunger. Simultaneously, 65 percent of the world’s population live in countries where obesity kills more people than those who are underweight. But these are problems that we can solve and there’s a lot to be done in the new year! 2014 was declared… Read more »
Misgivings About How a Weed Killer Affects the Soil
New York Times By Stephanie Strom ALTON, Iowa — The puny, yellow corn stalks stand like weary sentries on one boundary of Dennis Von Arb’s field here. On a windy day this spring, his neighbor sprayed glyphosate on his fields, and some of the herbicide blew onto Mr. Von Arb’s conventionally grown corn, killing the… Read more »
