Is Corporate Do-Goodery for Real? Bill McKibben Mother Jones November/December 2006 Issue Ten percent of a two-year-old’s nouns are brand names; by the time an American child heads to school, he or she can recognize hundreds of logos. Disney is now putting its cartoon characters on fresh fruit, arguing (perhaps correctly) that it’s the only… Read more »
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An Organic Cash Cow
The New York Times By KIM SEVERSON Alexis Gersten, a Long Island dentist, never thought about what she poured over her cereal until her son turned 1. “Having a new milk drinker, I sort of wanted to start him off on the right foot,” she said. Ms. Gersten worried about what synthetic growth hormones, pesticides… Read more »
Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
Independent Science News by Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman Source: Kate Ter Haar Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray. There may even be shouting. Such is the current state of affairs between two camps of scientists: health effects… Read more »
New Tool Helps Retailers Gauge Human Right Violations in Seafood
Cornucopia’s Take: Seafood Watch has published a Seafood Slavery Risk Tool to help corporate seafood buyers determine which fisheries are at higher risk for human rights abuses. Buyers are encouraged to work with those suppliers to end the troubling practices. Being able to tell your customers that the seafood sold in their store was not procured with… Read more »
What’s Up with Organics?
Cornucopia’s Take: John Ikerd is a policy advisor to The Cornucopia Institute and a leading figure in the sustainability revolution. The author of six books and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, he contends that soil is the “very foundation of authentic organic production.” JohnIkerd.com by John Ikerd John Ikerd How can crops… Read more »
Big Ag to Co-opt the Microbiome?
Cornucopia’s Take: While Cornucopia appreciates this potential move away from chemistry to biology, the industry remains committed to its mechanized viewpoints while ignoring the interconnected nature of life – both in the soil and above-ground. Big Ag insists that we need more food, yet ignores the vast waste in the food distribution system (no sales… Read more »
Report Finds Toxins/Carcinogens in Popular Brands of Toothpaste
Scorecard Identifies the “Dirtiest” and Safest, Even Organic, Alternatives The latest report by The Cornucopia Institute, an organic industry watchdog, uncovers serious problems in cosmetics industry regulations. Regulatory weaknesses and loopholes allow for the use of questionable, even harmful ingredients in personal care products, such as toothpastes, that could negatively impact the health of the… Read more »
Is Quinoa California Farmers’ New Kale?
Los Angeles Times by Geoffrey Mohan Source: LID, by Jonas Ingold Bryce Lundberg is elated, which is saying a lot for a California farmer these days. “Hop on in,” he says, wading into eight acres of ragged stalks, their seed tassels turning russet in the desert sun. Lundberg, 54, soon is chest-high in quinoa, a… Read more »
How Americans Gardened 260 Years Ago
Rodale’s Organic Life by Therese Ciesinski Source: Sarah Elliott Colonial Williamsburg shows us that when it comes to technique, not much has changed. The wooden yoke around my neck doesn’t hurt at first. I winch up two brimming wooden buckets from the well and attach them to the yoke. Now carrying 40 extra pounds of… Read more »
A Tale of Three Farms—in the Shenandoah Valley
by Mark Kastel I admit I’m kind of crazy. I don’t take too many vacations. But I do get out of my office frequently and really enjoy the opportunity to meet our members, and new folks, around the country while visiting their farms. In the middle of August I was invited to speak at the… Read more »
