New York Times Op-Ed Contributor By MICHAEL POLLAN Berkeley, Calif. — To listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures,… Read more »
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Toxic Melamine Is Suspected In A Seafood From China
Industry experts and businesspeople in China say that the industrial chemical has been routinely added to fish and animal feed to artificially boost protein readings. LA Times By Don Lee and Tiffany Hsu Reporting from Los Angeles and Shanghai — Melamine in Chinese-produced milk powder has sickened hundreds of thousands of children and added to… Read more »
Harmful Pesticides Found in Everyday Food Products
Mercer Island children tested in yearlong study Seattle Post-Intelligencer By Andrew Schneider P-I Senior Correspondent Government promises to rid the nation’s food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren’t doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children. The peer-reviewed study found that the… Read more »
A Shorter Link Between the Farm And Dinner Plate
Some Restaurants, Grocers Prefer Food Grown Locally Washington Post By Alejandro Lazo American Flatbread in Ashburn sits a few turns off the Dulles Greenway on the cusp of burgeoning suburbia. Parked in a strip shopping center behind a McDonald’s and sharing a wall with a Glory Days Grill, this is an unlikely place to find… Read more »
Is This the End of Organic Coffee?
Thanks to a recent hush-hush USDA ruling, your clean-conscience, fair-trade, organic latte may soon be a thing of the past Salon By Samuel Fromartz Enjoy your organic coffee now, while it’s hot — because it may not be around for long. Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly released a ruling that alarmed organic… Read more »
Hype vs. Hope
Is Corporate Do-Goodery for Real? Bill McKibben Mother Jones November/December 2006 Issue Ten percent of a two-year-old’s nouns are brand names; by the time an American child heads to school, he or she can recognize hundreds of logos. Disney is now putting its cartoon characters on fresh fruit, arguing (perhaps correctly) that it’s the only… Read more »
An Organic Cash Cow
The New York Times By KIM SEVERSON Alexis Gersten, a Long Island dentist, never thought about what she poured over her cereal until her son turned 1. “Having a new milk drinker, I sort of wanted to start him off on the right foot,” she said. Ms. Gersten worried about what synthetic growth hormones, pesticides… Read more »
Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
Independent Science News by Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman Source: Kate Ter Haar Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray. There may even be shouting. Such is the current state of affairs between two camps of scientists: health effects… Read more »
New Tool Helps Retailers Gauge Human Right Violations in Seafood
Cornucopia’s Take: Seafood Watch has published a Seafood Slavery Risk Tool to help corporate seafood buyers determine which fisheries are at higher risk for human rights abuses. Buyers are encouraged to work with those suppliers to end the troubling practices. Being able to tell your customers that the seafood sold in their store was not procured with… Read more »
What’s Up with Organics?
Cornucopia’s Take: John Ikerd is a policy advisor to The Cornucopia Institute and a leading figure in the sustainability revolution. The author of six books and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, he contends that soil is the “very foundation of authentic organic production.” JohnIkerd.com by John Ikerd John Ikerd How can crops… Read more »
