Cornucopia’s Take: Many of us in the good food movement are deeply concerned about the potential consequences of GMOs escaping into the environment. A research team from Rice University in Texas has developed a device to detect GMOs in water. New Device Could Detect GMOs That Have Escaped Into Environment Epoch Times by Tara MacIsaac… Read more »
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Straight Talk from a Farmer
Wise Traditions Jesse Straight is a local farmer and father of five young children. A few years back, he never would have imagined the life he leads today. As a student at the University of Virginia, Jesse was on a religious studies and pre-med track. Hear what changed the direction of his life and sparked his… Read more »
Organic, Rooted in Soil
Farming with Natural Complexity [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Linley Dixon, PhD, Farm and Food Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute Source: Adobe Stock Growing up, I told a skeptical family member that I wanted to be an organic farmer. He replied, “Why make life… Read more »
CFS on GE Labeling: “Our hope that the Court can get Trump’s USDA on a timeline”
Cornucopia’s Take: Congress passed the controversial and weak labeling law for foods with genetically modified organisms in 2016. They set a deadline of July 19, 2018 for USDA to issue labeling rules. The date has come and gone, and the Center for Food Safety has filed a legal complaint in hopes of bringing the agency into compliance…. Read more »
Whole Foods taps Longmont’s Earth Balance for soymilk
Boulder Daily Camera By Alicia Wallace, Camera Business Writer Move comes in wake of WhiteWave shifting Silk away from certified organic soybeans Fourteen years ago, a burgeoning Boulder company — White Wave Inc. — was responsible for launching Silk soymilk, a brand that is now the category leader. So when Whole Foods Market wanted to… Read more »
Altered Crops in Europe: At What Cost?
By Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune ALBONS, Spain: Enric Navarro was dumbfounded when the letter arrived from the testing lab of the Spanish organic farmers association in late February, informing him that his organic crop contained 12 percent genetically modified corn. Hearing that his plants had been modified by biotechnology was almost as traumatic for… Read more »
Senate Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring GE Food Labeling, Includes Preemption of States
Beyond Pesticides Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sen. Jeff Merkley Sen. Jon Tester Sen. Patrick Leahy Last week, Senators Jeff Merkley (OR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced legislation to require that consumer food packaging displays genetically engineered (GE) ingredient labeling. The Senators’ legislation, the Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act (S.2621), presents an alternative to the… Read more »
Rumiano Cheese Company
They write: “It all began nearly a century ago when three brothers from Italy, Richard, Fred and John Rumiano, bought a dairy in Willows, California and started making cheese and butter. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, Rumiano Cheese Company began to grow, purchasing several cheese factories in California and Oregon. The company has sold all… Read more »
