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What is the meaning of all natural?


Supermarket Guru

We’ve all seen products labeled ‘natural’ as well as those that contain ‘artificial flavors’ or ‘natural flavors,’ but have you ever wondered what exactly these claims mean? Is it really natural? What is the difference?

FDA takes steps to limit the use of antibiotics in livestock


Grist.com

The FDA took a significant step yesterday toward restricting the routine feeding of subtherapeutic (medically unnecessary) doses of antibiotics to livestock. As Grist has detailed in previous coverage, this practice -- which by some estimates consumes nearly 70% of all antibiotics administered in the U.S. --  has been linked to the rise of antibiotic resistance, both in common pathogens such as salmonella and in previously rare ones such as MRSA. (For more on MRSA listen to Grist's Tom Philpott speak with Superbug author Marilyn McKenna.)

OTA responds to study on organic and obesity


Organic Trade Association

A study published in the June 2010 journal Judgment and Decision Making should be taken with a grain of salt. By including a headline that reads “The “organic path to obesity?,” the study makes light of a serious health issue currently facing our society. To imply that there is a causal link between the serious problem of obesity and organic purchases is absurd. It is preposterous to think that this simplistic study conducted on a limited number of college students would be seen as showing a valid cause of obesity.

Michael Pollan: Organic food is a good investment


MSNBC.com

Lawmakers ask USDA to deny Monsanto alfalfa


Food CEO

Kansas City – More than 50 U.S. lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Agriculture Department to keep Monsanto’s (MON.N) biotech alfalfa out of farm fields, despite a Supreme Court ruling this week that cleared the way for limited planting pending environmental reviews.

The lawmakers said the biotech alfalfa presents too great a risk to conventional and organic agriculture to ever allow it.

Supreme Court's Ruling on Monsanto's GM alfalfa: Who won?


Grist

The sustainable agriculture world is abuzz today with news of the Supreme Court's ruling regarding an earlier lawsuit, brought by alfalfa farmers, that sought to stop any planting of Monsanto's genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa seed. While the press coverage heralds the ruling as a decisive victory for Monsanto, a close reading shows that, in fact, it's a fairly significant win for opponents of biotech crops.

Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto Case is Victory for Center for Food Safety, Farmers


True Food Now

The Center for Food Safety today celebrated the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ever brought before the Supreme Court.  Although the High Court decision reverses parts of the lower courts’ rulings, the judgment holds that a vacatur bars the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Alfalfa until and unless future deregulation occurs.  It is a victory for the Center for Food Safety and the Farmers and Consumers it represents.

Roundup-resistant weeds pose environmental threat


Mother Nature Network

When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer than many other herbicides, and it allowed farmers to give up harsher chemicals and reduce tilling that can contribute to erosion.

But 24 years later, a few sturdy species of weed resistant to Roundup have evolved, forcing farmers to return to some of the less environmentally safe practices they abandoned decades ago.
 

Boulder's growth as an organic leader


Boulder Daily Camera

With nearly 80,000 largely unregulated agriculture chemicals on the market today, according to the National Toxicology Program, it is not surprising a number of new studies are associating these substances with disease, and drawing clear recommendations for consumers to protect their own health by choosing to eat certified organic foods.

Gwendolyn Wyard

Organic certification expert

Here, organic certification expert Gwendolyn Wyard at Oregon Tilth, Inc. explains the role of certifiers in the organic system and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the work they do to promote and protect organic integrity. 




 

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