The New York Times by Andrew Pollack and Chad Bray Source: UGA College of Ag and Environmental Studies Over the last two decades Monsanto has cast off its century-long history as a chemical company and refashioned itself as an agricultural life sciences company, led by its genetically engineered seeds. But with its $45 billion bid… Read more »
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Millennials’ Hunger for Fresh Foods Eats Into Food Giants’ Profits
Food giants’ sales slide as millennials lead shift toward niche brands. Star Tribune by Mike Hughlett Source: 406604 Breann Tierschel has expelled Lucky Charms from her family’s table in favor of oatmeal. The 30-year-old accountant, who lives on St. Paul’s East Side with her husband and young daughter, has reconstructed her family’s eating plan over… Read more »
A Bee of a Different Color
Native pollinators feel the sting of habitat loss U-T San Diego by Deborah Sullivan Brennan Sweat Bee Credit: John Baker In James Hung’s collection at UC San Diego is a kaleidoscope of native bees, many of which bear little resemblance to the honeybees and bumblebees we know. The biggest are grape-sized and glossy black, while… Read more »
Subterfuge: FDA’s Phase Out of Antibiotics for Animal Growth Purposes Ineffective — Will Disadvantage Small Farmers
[This action alert is now closed] [Please note that we have updated the previously incorrect docket number on the sample letter.] On December 11, 2013 the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a new draft guidance that asks animal-drug makers to voluntarily discontinue marketing antibiotics to farmers for faster livestock growth, limiting their use… Read more »
Subterfuge: FDA’s Phase Out of Antibiotics for Animal Growth Purposes Ineffective — Will Disadvantage Small Farmers
On December 11, 2013 the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a new draft guidance that asks animal-drug makers to voluntarily discontinue marketing antibiotics to farmers for faster livestock growth, limiting their use strictly to therapeutic uses. Will this billion-dollar industry make voluntary changes in order to protect the efficacy of important antibiotics used… Read more »
Unease in Hawaii’s Cornfields
New York Times by Andrew Pollack WAIMEA, Hawaii — The balmy tropical isles here seem worlds apart from the expansive cornfields of the Midwest, but Hawaii has become the latest battleground in the fight over genetically modified crops. The state has become a hub for the development of genetically engineered corn and other crops that… Read more »
The Costs of Cheap Meat
The Chicago Tribune By Monica Eng, Tribune reporter Critics of factory farms say we pay a high price for low-cost food If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we’ve also never paid such a high price. U.S. Department… Read more »
The Cost of Organic
Burlington Free Press (link no longer available) By Terri Hallenbeck, Free Press Staff Writer NORTH HERO — Behind the lettuce, beans and zucchini that sit in bins at Amanda Gervais’s farmstand was a lot of planning and paperwork. Before the heads of broccoli and Swiss chard ever emerged from the ground, Gervais had to document their… Read more »
Why Small Farms Are Safer
The Atlantic by Josh Viertel In 2006 I was–among other things–a vegetable farmer. In New Haven, Connecticut, using Ivy League labor, we grew and sold over 300 varieties of vegetables. Today I am struck with memories of one in particular: a gorgeous crop of spinach we couldn’t sell. During the summer of 2006, an intelligent,… Read more »
To Save Organic Dairy, Obama Must Change the USDA Mindset
Excerpted from The Milkweed Mark Kastel The state of the (organic) dairy nation is not good. That shouldn’t be too much of a surprise since the entire dairy industry, and general economy, is in freefall. But for many of us who have been involved in building the organic dairy sector over the last two decades,… Read more »
