Sustainable Food News Allegations against Grocery Manufacturers Assoc. constitute largest political funding concealment case in Washington state’s history Washington state’s attorney general has asked a court to penalize the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) for its “intentional subterfuge” in an alleged effort to elude state campaign-finance laws. At issue is Washington, D.C.-based GMA’s financing of a 2013… Read more »
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Organic Farmer and Cornucopia Board Chair Steve Sprinkel Speaks Out on GMO Food
People Speak: Organic farmers push California bill to label ‘Frankenfoods’ Fox News By Douglas Kennedy To Steve Sprinkel, you are what you eat. “It’s important (to know),” he said as he looked out across his organic farm in Ojai, Calif. “That’s how I’ve lived my entire life.” Sprinkel has been an organic farmer for 26… Read more »
New Research Links Neonicotinoid Pesticides to Monarch Butterfly Declines
Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Source: Joel Olives USDA researchers have identified the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin as a likely contributor to monarch butterfly declines in North America. The USDA research is published in the journal Science of Nature and was published online on April 3rd (Pecenka and Lundgren 2015). (ISN has had hacking problems,… Read more »
Missing the Story on Golden Rice
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy By Ben Lilliston In the wake of protests in the Philippines over genetically engineered Golden Rice, a series of articles have appeared in the U.S. mainstream press (e.g., the New York Times) and alternative publications like Slate and Grist, all coming to the vigorous defense of the latest incarnation… Read more »
Farmers Hen House
They write: “FARMERS HEN HOUSE is family owned and has been operated by the Miller family since 2000. We manage small, family farms – most within 30 miles of our processing facility. Almost all are owned by Amish and Mennonite farmers. Their businesses are family affairs and many harvest their eggs by hand.Farmers Hen House… Read more »
Stueve’s Certified Organic
They write: “The history of the Lloyd Stueve family is rooted in agriculture. About four generations ago his ancestors arrived from Germany. They came here as Germans but became American farmers, citizens, and Christian leaders in their communities. Beginning in 1839, on a farm in Missouri, the Stueves learned to clear thick forests so they… Read more »
A Poisoned Merger
Cornucopia’s Take: Monsanto’s GMO seeds and Bayer’s pesticides have already come together in joint projects. The companies’ merger can only mean more toxic products with perhaps better PR. Monsanto-Bayer: The Year of Merging Dangerously Truthout by Maryam Henein Source: Liz West The Big Ag tech giants Monsanto — maker of Agent Orange, genetically modified seeds… Read more »
Agriculture Reborn in Puerto Rico
Cornucopia’s Take: While financial uncertainty hangs over Puerto Rico, small farms are popping up, providing jobs and food. The Puerto Rican government is supporting agriculture of all types. With GMO trial fields in place since 2011, Bayer has announced intentions to open two large biotech facilities there. Puerto Rico finds unexpected source of growth in… Read more »
Monsanto Pulls Desperate Farmers’ Strings and They Spray Dicamba
Cornucopia’s Take: In releasing dicamba resistant seeds prior to EPA approval of use of dicamba itself, Monsanto has created the perfect market for its GMO seeds: farmers whose soybeans have been stunted by neighbors spraying dicamba illegally. The USDA continues to leave the onus for crop damage on the victims. Crime In The Fields: How… Read more »
