The Guardian Arthur Neslen Source: Chafer Machinery Survey of more than 7,000 people across the EU’s five biggest states backs prohibition of the most widely used agricultural chemical Two-thirds of Europeans support a ban on glyphosate, the most widely used agricultural chemical in the world’s history, according to a new Yougov poll. A prohibition on the… Read more »
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Behind the Dazzling Smile
Toxic Chemicals in Your Toothpaste? [This article was previously published in the spring issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Jérôme Rigot, PhD Farm and Food Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute Source: Dollar Photo Club Toothpastes, even “natural” toothpastes, vary greatly in the ingredients they contain, some of which are questionable or potentially toxic. This… Read more »
The Truth About Pet Food
[This article was previously published in the winter issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Rachel Zegerius, Communications and Development Assistant at The Cornucopia Institute The author of the pet food report is Cornucopia staff scientist Linley Dixon, Ph.D. New Report Helps You Choose the Best Brands for Your Four-legged Friends Source: Dollar Photo Club Did… Read more »
Regenerative Agriculture and the Dawn of Planetary Engineering
Huffington Post J.S. McDougall Source: Nicolas Raymond Regenerative agriculture is the dawn of planetary engineering. And that’s great news for the future of the planet. Here’s how I know. We have five hay fields on our farm. They are the kind of rolling, green, and gorgeous fields that are typical across Vermont’s pastoral green mountains…. Read more »
Clearing Vegetation Around Crops Doesn’t Help Reduce Pathogens on Produce
Food Safety News Source: NRCS The effort to improve food safety by clearing wild vegetation surrounding crops is not helping and, in some cases, may even backfire, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. The findings, reported Monday, Aug. 10, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of… Read more »
Conventional Cows on Organic Dairies?
USDA’s Proposed Origin of Livestock Rule Could Create New Loophole by Will Fantle The origin of livestock regulations allowed industrial- scale organic dairies to purchase conventional stock to replace worn out milk cows. Aurora Coldwater Dairy, above, manages 18,000 cows on 3,558 acres in Stratford, Texas, according to state filings. The USDA’s National Organic Program released the long-awaited proposed rule amending their… Read more »
Urban Farming Grows in the Land of Wide-Open Spaces
Iowa Public Radio by Luke Runyon Source: Mark Nate Storey’s greenhouse in west Laramie, Wyoming is packed with vegetables growing in long, upright plastic towers. Storey’s set-up is an urban farmer’s dream: the waste from fish tanks fertilizes the crops through plastic tubing that drips water onto the vertical garden. The greenhouse is small, but… Read more »
Our Responsibilities to the Animals We Eat
The Call of the Land by Steven McFadden Source: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project Each year more than nine billion animals go to slaughterhouses in the USA to be killed, processed, and packaged into the beef, pork, lamb and chicken that eventually find their way onto our dinner plates. It is an industrial process on a… Read more »
Farmacology: What Business Can Learn From Sustainable Farming
Medical and business communities can take surprising lessons from farming and improve employee wellbeing and productivity The Guardian By Judith D Schwartz Frustrated that conventional medicine had little to offer many of her patients, Daphne Miller, a practicing physician and professor of family medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, decided to take… Read more »
Organic Pacesetters
La Crosse Tribune (WI) By Nathan Hansen / Lee Newspapers While Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford only farm a few acres on their organic Blue Fruit Farm in Winona County’s Wiscoy Township, their impact to local, sustainable and organic agriculture has had international impact. Over the decades, the husband and wife team have helped set… Read more »
