Fear of Toxins, Support of Local Markets at the Heart of Consumer Sentiment Thomson Reuters Ann Arbor, MI and Washington, DC – JULY 20, 2011 – When given a choice, American consumers prefer to purchase organic foods, according to the Thomson Reuters-NPR Health Poll. Thomson Reuters and NPR developed the monthly poll to gauge attitudes… Read more »
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USDA and Corporate Agribusiness Continue to Push Animal ID Scheme
Consumers and Independent Producers Lose if Big Ag Wins on Animal Traceability WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to issue its new proposed rule for mandatory animal traceability very shortly. While USDA already has traceability requirements as part of existing animal disease control programs, the proposed framework goes much further… Read more »
Organic Farm Changes Improve Training
By: Lauren McKown The State News – Michigan State University It’s a part of campus that most students never will visit, but for Walker Hancock, the Student Organic Farm is her version of the MSU experience — an experience that will see a few positive changes this year. Hancock is one of many students, volunteers… Read more »
Business as Usual?
Why we shouldn’t forget the Farm Bill Grist by Aimee Witteman Last Wednesday, Monsanto announced that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) approved a pilot program that will give farmers a 20 percent discount on insurance premiums if they plant a majority of their corn acres with seeds featuring Monsanto’s trademarked YieldGard Plus with Roundup… Read more »
The Cornucopia Institute Alleges Factory Farms Violating Federal Organic Law
CORNUCOPIA, WISCONSIN: The Cornucopia Institute, today, filed a formal complaint with the USDA’s National Organic Program asking them to initiate an investigation into alleged violations of the federal organic law by a factory farm operating in Colorado. At issue is whether it is legal to confine cows in an industrial setting, without access to pasture,… Read more »
Letter to the Editor from Anna Blythe Lappe
Letter to the Editor from Anna Blythe Lappé, Small Planet Institute A good friend of Cornucopia, Anna Blythe Lappé, Food and Society Policy Fellow, WK Kellogg Foundation and Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute takes one of the most relentless, and ideologically unwavering, critics of organic food, Alex Avery, to the woodshed… Dear Editor, I don’t… Read more »
A Brief History of Parity Pricing and the Present Day Ramifications of the Abandonment of a Par Economy
By Kevin Engelbert, Organic Dairy Farmer, Nichols, NY The basic premise of parity pricing is the belief that the selling price of a product or produce should go up or down in the same amount as the prices of the inputs used in its production. Another way to phrase the idea of parity price: the… Read more »
Amazon Meeting with Grass-fed Beef Producers in Georgia
Cornucopia’s Take: It remains to be seen what Amazon has in store for grass-fed beef producers. We will share the results of this secret meeting when the story is available. What’s on the table at Amazon’s secret meeting with cattle ranchers? The New Food Economy by Joe Fassler Source: USDA Another day, another sign of… Read more »
Misgivings About How a Weed Killer Affects the Soil
The New York Times by Stephanie Strom Source: canvas blank ALTON, Iowa — The puny, yellow corn stalks stand like weary sentries on one boundary of Dennis Von Arb’s field here. On a windy day this spring, his neighbor sprayed glyphosate on his fields, and some of the herbicide blew onto Mr. Von Arb’s conventionally… Read more »
Why a Food You Have Never Heard of Could be Key to Feeding the World
The Washington Post by Joe Yonan Source: Brian Moen If you’re trying to shift your diet toward more nutritious foods — and, especially this time of year, who isn’t? — you need to make friends with dried beans, chickpeas and lentils, if you haven’t already. Their nutritional benefits are legendary. Just one example: Studies of… Read more »