Washington Post “Eating is an agricultural act,” essayist Wendell Berry famously wrote. It’s also a political one. Which is why last week Berry, geneticist Wes Jackson and sustainable-agriculture advocate Fred Kirschenmann made a pilgrimage to Washington to make a case for a new kind of food policy.
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Scandal Fuels Meltdown in Organic Dairy Industry
Farmers Seek Justice from Obama, USDA; Consumers Headed Back to Court St. Louis, MO – A slowdown in the sales of organic milk and dairy products, attributed in recent articles by the New York Times and other media outlets to the weakened economy, has organic dairy farmers from coast to coast at or near financial… Read more »
Organic Milk Boom In Maine Going Bust
Hood Drops Northern, Down East Dairy Farms Bangor Daily News By Sharon Kiley Mack Bangor,ME,USA – Too much supply and too little demand in a recession have caught up with the fast-growing organic milk industry, dealing a harsh blow to Maine producers. Dairy industry giant HP Hood recently told eight Maine organic dairy farms their… Read more »
All Natural
Organic rewards keep crop, dairy farm sustainable The Country Today By Sara Bredesen ROSENDALE, WI – For Daniel and Darlene Coehoorn, sustainability is more than staying away from chemicals and leaving the land in as good or better condition than they found it. It also is earning enough money from farm production to be able… Read more »
The Two Americas of Food: Reflections on the 2007 Farm Bill
The Huffington Post Anna Lappe Like hundreds of others across the country, my neighborhood in Brooklyn got a farmers market a few years ago. Now, with summer in full swing, I can spend any Saturday morning wandering in fresh-food bliss. But I am certainly not taking a single Bing cherry for granted. I know that… Read more »
Organic Animal Agriculture Threatened by Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
by Jim Munsch The Cornucopia Institute By now many farmers producing organic milk or meat from ruminants have seen the news about the federal court ruling that the USDA violated the law by failing to conduct a full Environmental Impact Study before approving Monsanto’s genetically engineered alfalfa trademarked Roundup Ready®. The judge’s latest ruling in… Read more »
Organic Fraud: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Accused of Widespread Distortion
Nonorganic Food Products Misidentified as “Organic” Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2000 CORNUCOPIA, WI: When the staff at The Cornucopia Institute surveyed Wal-Mart stores around the country last September, analyzing the giant retailer’s pronouncement that they would begin selling a wide variety of organic food at just a 10% mark-up over similar conventional products, they were surprised… Read more »
Is the National Animal Identification System Mandatory or Voluntary?
By Judith McGeary Numerous sources have reported that the National Animal Identification System, or NAIS, is voluntary. But is that really true? On November 22, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a “User Guide“ for NAIS. In it, USDA states that NAIS “is voluntary at the federal level.” Those are critical words — they… Read more »
Investors Question Dean Foods at Stockholders Meeting
Horizon Organic Milk Brand Faces Consumer Boycott Over Factory Farms Contacts: Steven Heim, Boston Common Asset Management, 617-720-5557 or 617-785-9527 (c) Daniel Stranahan, The Needmor Fund, 206-794-3656 Mark Kastel, The Cornucopia Institute, 608-625-2000 DALLAS: Socially concerned investors, who filed a shareholder proposal with Dean Foods, today questioned the company’s management at its Annual Meeting of… Read more »
Vote for the Dinner Party
Is this the year that the food movement finally enters politics? The New York Times By MICHAEL POLLAN One of the more interesting things we will learn on Nov. 6 is whether or not there is a “food movement” in America worthy of the name — that is, an organized force in our politics capable… Read more »
