Hello all, Just a reminder and some particulars on the emergency rally for organic dairy farmers this coming Thursday, July 16. The rally will be held from 11 AM through noon. The event will take place at the La Crosse Interstate Fairgrounds in West Salem, Wisconsin. The fairgrounds are located on County M just north… Read more »
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Obama Stimulus Targets Fresh, Local Food
Guidelines encourage farm-to-school programs By Diane Conners Great Lakes Bulletin News Service The Obama administration’s stimulus package has good news for schools that need new kitchen equipment but can’t afford it: They might get some federal money to buy some of that equipment, as long as they are quick on the draw.
Budgets Squeezed, Some Families Bypass Organics
New York Times By ANDREW MARTIN Once upon a time, sales of organic and natural products were growing in double digits most years. Enthusiastic grocers and venture capitalists prowled the halls of trade shows looking for the next big thing. Grass-fed beef? Organic baby food? Gluten-free energy bars? But now, shaky consumer spending is dampening… Read more »
Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms
New York Times By Susan Saulny CAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Ill. — In an environmentally conscious tweak on the typical way of getting food to the table, growing numbers of people are skipping out on grocery stores and even farmers markets and instead going right to the source by buying shares of farms. On one of the… Read more »
Food Conscious: Is organic better? It depends.
San Francisco Chronicle Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff Writer Fans of eating organic have always believed that organic fruits and vegetables packed a bigger nutritional punch than conventionally grown produce. But until pretty recently, hard scientific evidence has been lacking. Studies that seemed to prove the theory often turned out to be poorly designed – the… Read more »
North Sacramento-based Ventria Sowing a Storm with Altered Rice
The Sacramento Bee By Jim Downing In a little town in Kansas, Sacramento’s Ventria Bioscience is about to turn one of the biotechnology industry’s long-held dreams, and one of its critics’ nightmares, into reality. For 14 years, Ventria has inched toward its vision of growing fields of genetically modified rice plants that would serve as… Read more »
Aurora Dairy Threatens Suit Against Critics
Boulder County Business Report (link no longer available) by Barbara Hey BOULDER – Despite threats of legal action, the vitriol continues between Boulder-based Aurora Organic Dairy and the company’s critics in the organic community – chief among them the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based advocacy group. The current conflagration concerns a consent agreement between the U.S. Department… Read more »
Organic Almond Supporters Roast Pasteurization Plan
San Francisco Chronicle George Raine, Chronicle Staff Writer A new food regulation that mandates the pasteurization of California almonds leaves a bad taste in the mouth of Jesse Schwartz, a purveyor of raw organic almond butter and other natural foods in Berkeley. For 25 years, as president of Living Tree Community Foods, he has done… Read more »
National Organic Standards Board Adopts Pasture Guidance But USDA Staff Rejects Changes and Asks for Further Review
The Cornucopia Institute’s Senior Farm Policy Analyst Mark Kastel journeyed to Washington, D.C. for the August 15-17 meeting of the National Organic Standards Board. He was there to push for final adoption of the proposed pasture guidance for dairy cows and ruminants that would close loopholes being used by several large industrial confinement dairy farms… Read more »
A Game of Chicken
OregonLive by Lynne Terry USDA repeatedly blinked when facing salmonella outbreaks involving Foster Farms Over the course of a decade, hundreds of people from Eugene to Baker City to Portland and Seattle were struck by bouts of food poisoning so severe they fled to their doctors or emergency rooms for treatment. They had no idea… Read more »
