Rodale EMMAUS, Pa.– Rodale has announced the release of Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe by Rodale Chairman & CEO Maria Rodale. Organic Manifesto cuts through the confusion and misinformation to provide an indispensable and highly readable look at why chemical-free farming unquestionably holds the… Read more »
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Global Organic Foods & Beverages Market to Exceed $86 Billion by 2009
San Jose, CA — The global organic foods and beverages market is delivering strong double-digit annual growth as health and well-being moves up high on the consumer’s priority list. Outbreak of recent food scares, rising awareness of the long-term health impact of pesticidal residues in food, unhealthy ingredients such as carbohydrates, fat, calories and hydrogenated… Read more »
Grass Created in Lab Is Found in the Wild
The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK An unapproved type of genetically engineered grass has been found growing in the wild in what scientists say could be the first instance in the United States in which a biotechnology plant has established itself outside a farm. Ecologists at the Environmental Protection Agency said they had found… Read more »
Demand Real Organic Food from Real Organic Farmers!
[Download the proxy here.] Sign the Proxy Asking Major Retailers to Offer Genuine Organic Choices We need the stores we shop at to quit trying to sell us fake organic food from inhumane livestock factories, masquerading as organic, or hydroponic vegetables fertilized with conventional soybeans and grown in ground up coconut waste … or even… Read more »
Demand Real Organic Food from Real Organic Farmers
Sign the Proxy Asking Major Retailers to Offer Genuine Organic Choices We need the stores we shop at to quit trying to sell us fake organic food from inhumane livestock factories, masquerading as organic, or hydroponic vegetables fertilized with conventional soybeans and grown in ground up coconut waste … or even ground up recycled plastic!… Read more »
Tyson Foods Dumps More Than 18 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Into America’s Waterways Each Year
Natural News by Jonathan Benson Source: Socially Responsible Agricultural Project Our most precious natural resource, clean water, is threatened by the continued environmental release of toxic chemicals from heavy industry, which includes the factory food industry. Four of the top 10 worst polluters in the U.S. today, according to a new report, are food manufacturing companies,… Read more »
Lone Star Organic All-Stars
by Elizabeth Wolf [Cameron Molberg manages Coyote Creek Farm, just east of Austin. It is the only commercial source of organic feed between Texas and North Carolina. In early 2015 he was nominated for a position on The Cornucopia Institute’s formal Policy Advisory Panel.] Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill was founded in 2007 Today the mill… Read more »
Meat Glue Turns Scraps into Prime Cuts of Meat
International Business Times by Kelsey Murray When I go to the grocery store and buy steak, I assume that what I’m buying is a prime cut piece of meat. However, a new report shows that consumers are being misled about the quality of their meats and even lied to about what it is that they… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) Taking Food Out of the Mouths of Babes
EWG Action Fund The budget legislation passed by House Republicans in the wee hours of February 19 (no Democrats voted for it) would slash $747 million — about 10 percent — from the 2011 budget for the Special Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children. It’s commonly known as “WIC.” Created in 1974, WIC… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) – Urge USDA to Protect Poultry Farmers From Avian Flu
The current government approach to avian influenza is flawed. The Cornucopia Institute has joined a broad coalition of stakeholder groups that are calling on USDA to change its plan for responding to a potential U.S. outbreak of bird flu. The coalition represents consumers, organic, minority and family farmers, ranchers, animal welfare advocates, contract poultry growers,… Read more »
