The New York Times By Sabrina Tavernise WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and chickens raised for meat, a practice that experts say has endangered human health by fueling the growing epidemic of antibiotic… Read more »
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The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
New York Times Sunday Review By Jim Robbins ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some also celebrate the millions of monarch butterflies that, without fail, fly to the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico on that day. They are believed to be souls of the… Read more »
How to Bring Farmers Markets to the Urban Poor
Washington Post by Michael Lipsky For almost 20 years, I’ve sold tomatoes, basil, lettuce, kale and other vegetables at the Takoma Park Farmers Market on Sundays during the summer season. It’s one of several markets my wife helped start at the dawn of the farmers market movement. Last month, I spent a day selling for… Read more »
Protection Of Pollinators Or Smoke And Mirrors?
By Maryam Henein, HoneyColony Original “In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators”, the Environmental Protection Agency recently developed a new pesticide label that will (supposedly) prohibit use of some pesticide products where bees are present. Specifically, the new label applies to ‘systemic pesticides known as neonicotinoids, such as imidacloprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin and thiamethoxam…. Read more »
Why Picking Your Berries For $8,000 A Year Hurts A Lot
NPR by Eliza Barclay As the supply chain that delivers our food to us gets longer and more complicated, many consumers want to understand — and control — where their food comes from. But even if we meet farmers at the farmers market , urban consumers are still largely divorced from the people who grow,… Read more »
Kew’s Growth Strategy: Hybrid Crops Without the Genetic Modification
Plan to crossbreed crops with their wild cousins to help boost resistance to climate change The Independent By Tom Bawden British researchers are leading an unprecedented global project to track down and store wild relatives of common crops – to help breed hybrids with higher yields that could be resistant to the effects of climate… Read more »
Natural Foods Retailer Nutiva Challenges DEA, Embraces Hemp
Bloomberg By Greg T. Spielberg In August 1999, the U.S. Customs Service — acting on a Drug Enforcement Administration order — seized a Canadian hemp-food exporter’s truck with 20 tons of hemp seeds entering Detroit from Ontario. The nongerminating seeds, en route to U.S. natural food businesses, have always been legal to import, though illegal… Read more »
The Ag Gag Laws: Hiding Factory Farm Abuses From Public Scrutiny
A former HSUS investigator details the dangers of HR 589, makes it illegal for investigative reporters to take jobs at factory farms in Iowa. The Atlantic By Cody Carlson Earlier this month, politicians in Iowa bowed to corporate pressure when they passed a law designed to stifle public debate and keep consumers in the dark…. Read more »
Nevada County Organic Farmer Saves Heirloom Trees for Food and History
The Union (CA) By Laura Brown It was 1871 when a “testy little Frenchman” named Felix Gillet first opened his Barren Hill Nursery to the public on 16 acres of logged property at the top of Nevada Street. During Gillet’s lifetime, he imported and bred thousands of varieties of old world fruit and nuts from… Read more »
New National Organization Publishes First Food Policy Scorecard
Food Policy Action Sara Sciammacco Tracks Food and Farm Votes, Identifies Good Food Champions in Congress Washington, D.C. – Chef Tom Colicchio and other healthy food advocates, animal welfare and anti-hunger champions launched a new organization on National Food Day (Oct. 24), devoted to holding members of Congress accountable to the public interest for their… Read more »
