GazetteNet.com (MA) By RICHIE DAVIS Gazette Contributing Writer On the one hand, Rep. Ellen Story, D-Amherst, says her constituents include scientists who insist there’s no health danger from eating genetically engineered foods in small quantities. On the other hand, plenty of her constituents are very concerned that genetically modified foods are dangerously toxic or at… Read more »
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Obesity, Corn, GMOs
Brattleboro.com Anthony Samsel If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered ( GE ) corn, corn based products and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain. Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies, carried out over a ten year period. The results show a positive link between… Read more »
‘Lunatic Farmer’ to Preach the Word at Sustainable Food Conference
The Union Liz Kellar Joel Salatin doesn’t mind being thought of as a lunatic. He revels in it, giving lectures on “The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer.” Now, Nevada County audiences can share in the lunacy when Salatin speaks at the Sustainable Local Food and Farm Conference on Jan. 22, an event organized… Read more »
A Look Inside the ‘Raw’ Milk Underground
Nicole Bode visits an unpasteurized milk club. DNAinfo By Nicole Bode MANHATTAN — It didn’t look like a batch of groceries that could get someone in trouble. I inspected the cardboard box full of two half-gallons of milk, two cartons of eggs and a white plastic bag with some chicken livers inside. All of the… Read more »
Organic, Small Farmers Fret Over FDA Regulation
San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington — Small farmers in California who have led a national movement away from industrial agriculture face a looming crackdown on food safety that they say is geared to big corporate farms and will make it harder for them to survive. The small growers, many of whom… Read more »
Veggie Season Keeps Growing
Demand for locally grown food has farmers building greenhouses and trying cool-weather varieties. Portland Press Herald Maine Sunday Telegram By BETH QUIMBY, Staff Writer The vegetable-growing season used to end with the first hard frost in Maine. Not anymore. An increasing number of farmers are pushing the growing season into the winter to take advantage… Read more »
Full plate for Obama’s new FDA administrator
San Francisco Chronicle Marion Nestle Q: President Obama has nominated Dr. Margaret Hamburg as the next Food and Drug administrator. What issues would you like her to tackle? A: And what a good choice she is. I worked with Dr. Hamburg in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the late 1980s, and… Read more »
Message to Obama: Please Fix the USDA’s Organic Mess
Overhaul of Management and Culture Needed Appointment of Kathleen Merrigan as Deputy Secretary: First Sign of “Change” Cornucopia, WI – President Obama and new USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack are being urged to take immediate action to repair the USDA’s increasingly dysfunctional National Organic Program (NOP). Suspect imports of grains, nuts, and vegetables from China and… Read more »
We Need To Eat Locally Again
OpEd News By Jim Goodman Because we have a globalized food system, we have a food crisis. Food is shipped all over the world, poor countries are not allowed to feed themselves and the industrialized world depends on food grown “somewhere else”. We need to end this nonsense and get back to local and regional… Read more »
Was Target’s Organic Milk Just Regular?
Claims that “organic” milk sold to Target and Wal-Mart was conventional highlight a dispute over dairy-farm practices. Minneapolis Star Tribune By Matt McKinney Ever wonder how Target Corp. could sell its organic milk for dollars less than other stores? Turns out the milk might not have been truly organic after all. Last month, the U.S…. Read more »
