Cornucopia’s Take: Conventional meat requires vast plots of feed, often grown using the most soil- and water-damaging agricultural practices ever used. Fertilizer runoff now taints the water of more than half of the U.S. population and is responsible for the largest Gulf of Mexico dead zone in history. Time to support organic farming – and… Read more »
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Pesticide Poisoning Our Children Was Out, Now Maybe Back In
Cornucopia’s Take: After five years of study, the EPA found that the commonly used pesticide chlorpyrifos is likely causing lasting harm to our children, in utero. With President Trump’s planned regulatory cuts, it is unclear whether chlorpyrifos manufacturers, Dow Chemical, may be able to override science and continue to peddle their lucrative toxic chemical. Protect… Read more »
UN/WHO Panel in Conflict of Interest Row over Glyphosate Cancer Risk
The Guardian by Arthur Neslen Source: 401kcalculator Chairman of UN’s joint meeting on pesticide residues co-runs scientific institute which received donation from Monsanto, which uses glyphosate A UN panel that on Tuesday ruled that glyphosate was probably not carcinogenic to humans has now become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests. It… Read more »
Organic Faces Growing Pains as Demand Outpaces Supply
The Des Moines Register by Christopher Doering Source: thebittenword.com When Andrew and Melissa Dunham took over a 150-year-old corn, soybean and cattle farm from a relative in 2006, the 80-acre spread northeast of Des Moines couldn’t support a full-time farmer. So the young couple decided to overhaul the operation by embracing what was then a… Read more »
A Better Way for California to Water Its Farms
Wired by Danielle Venton Source: Texas A & M AgriLife Research California’s Central Valley farmers have a problem. Agriculture accounts for about 80 percent of the state’s water consumption, and in the midst of a historic drought, it is the largest potential source of water savings. Farmers want to be good stewards of the land by… Read more »
Only Agroecology Can Tackle the Global Food and Health Crisis
Ecologist by Dr. Julia Wright Source: WESSA The recently published Global Nutrition Report shows almost all countries face high levels of malnutrition and diet-based ill-health, writes Julia Wright. This reveals deep problems with the dominant industrial model of food production, and the need for new agroecological approaches to feeding the world. The current global food crisis… Read more »
Invader Batters Rural America, Shrugging Off Herbicides
New York Times By Michael Wines WHEATFIELD, Ind. — The Terminator — that relentless, seemingly indestructible villain of the 1980s action movie — is back. And he is living amid the soybeans at Harper Brothers Farms. About 100 miles northwest of Indianapolis, amid 8,000 lush acres farmed by Dave Harper, his brother Mike and their… Read more »
Trying to Convince Chickens to Vote for Colonel Sanders: OTA Knows What’s Best for Producers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2000 Robo-calls Bother Organic Farmers During Spring Planting: Latest Push for Check-off by Powerful Organic Lobby Group https://www.cornucopia.org/2014/06/robo-calls-bother-organic-farmers-during-spring-planting Cornucopia, WI – The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has launched the next phase of its push for an organic check-off program. The industry lobby group, funded by the likes of General… Read more »
Robo-Calls Bother Organic Farmers During Spring Planting:
Latest Push for Check-off by Powerful Organic Lobby Group The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has launched the next phase of its push for an organic check-off program. The industry lobby group, funded by the likes of General Mills, WhiteWave, Organic Valley and Smucker’s, has been working the phone lines, robo-calling thousands of organic farmers across… Read more »
Scientists Frustrated by Factory Farms: Scientific Evidence of their Non-Sustainability Mounts
Pulse by Jim Lundstrom A factory dairy near Phoenix, AZ Professor Robert Lawrence is in a select company of researchers. “I think the only other group of scientists who probably are more frustrated than we are are the climate scientists,” Lawrence said in a recent telephone call. Lawrence is director of the Johns Hopkins Center… Read more »
