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What makes milk or meat organic? After a drawn-out debate, the Agriculture Department has significantly narrowed the definition to livestock that spend a third of the year grazing on pasture.

New rules announced Friday say organic milk and meat must come from livestock grazing on pasture for at least four months of the year, and that 30 percent of their feed must come from grazing. The old rules said only that animals must have "access to pasture."

To understand our impact on nature, there is truth in the saying, “everything is connected.” Few situations illustrate this concept as dramatically as the agricultural wastes from the Midwest that contribute so seriously to the aquatic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

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GREENFIELD, Mass. (Feb. 10, 2010)—Choosing foods bearing the organic label is the only way consumers can be sure meats and dairy products they buy have been produced without the use of antibiotics, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA) in response to a CBS Evening News with Katie Couric segment on livestock production airing Feb. 9 and 10.

The logo chosen by the public to appear on organic food across the EU has been revealed.

The European Commission has officially announced the winner of the EU organic logo competition (8 February).

Over the past two months, some 130,000 people have voted online to choose the new organic symbol from three finalists.

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. is the author of Anticancer: A New Way Of Life

Michael Pollan's recent little gem of a book "Food Rules" inspired me to compile my own "rules" about what I'd like every person to know about how they can help avoid cancer - or slow it down if they have it.

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CBS Evening News, featuring Katie Couric, has scheduled a two-part
report on antimicrobial use in food-animal production. Baring major
breaking news that would delay the reports, the series is scheduled for
evening news broadcasts next week — possibly Feb. 9 and 10. (The
newscast begins at 5:30 p.m. CST.)

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner’s hard-hitting exposé of the food
industry, has snagged a Academy Award nomination in the “best

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.