New York – August 11, 2011 The eighty-three family farmers, small and family owned seed businesses, and agricultural organizations challenging Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seed filed papers in federal court today defending their right to seek legal protection from the threat of being sued by Monsanto for patent infringement should they ever become contaminated [...]
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Farmers and Seed Distributors Defend Right to Protect Themselves From Monsanto Patents
Posted in Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Uncategorized on August 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Whole Paycheck and Organic Food Deserts: The Challenge
Posted in Organic Foods, Pesticides, Sustainable Agriculture on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Aug 4, 2011 After decades of grassroots public education, battles to safeguard standards, and hard work, organic food and farming has become the fastest growing sector of U.S. agriculture. Organics have surged in popularity to become a $30 billion dollar industry in the United States, representing approximately four percent [...]
Becoming Soil Conscious by Deborah Koons Garcia
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Sustainable Agriculture on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Becoming Soil Conscious This fall I will be completing my new feature length documentary, Symphony of the Soil. Along with this exploration of soil, I am creating several short films, Sonatas of the Soil, each of which goes deeply into one soil-related topic like dry farming grapes, as is depicted in Portrait of a Winemaker: [...]
Conference Asks What the Future of Food Should Look Like
Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Article on the Future of Food conference
WHAT DOES THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAVE TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?The Chamber is controlled by Big Polluters, poisons politics with its dirty money and opposes every single effort to curb climate pollution.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Bill McKibbon: Together we’ve accomplished an awful lot in the last two years—we’ve built the first mass movement around climate change, with thousands of rallies around the country and around the world. We’ve put the basic science out where it can’t be ignored, and built a coalition of poor and affluent people around the [...]
For once, developments in Washington could make things better on the farm
Posted in Farm Issues, News Articles, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I write on Grist about my small farm, but my day job is different. I’m an organizer for the Nebraska-based Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA). One of the things we do at CFRA is try to tweak federal farm policies in ways that help rural farm communities thrive. And this past week, I’ve been thinking a [...]
Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the nation’s senior soil scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, believes the appearance and prevalence of the unnamed organism may be related [...]
Over 9,900 Upset Consumers Tell Fair Trade Certifier ‘No Thanks’ on Name Change
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON, DC – North America’s largest consumer advocacy organization, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), which represents over 850,000 consumers, announced last month a new campaign to oppose the name change of the fair trade certifier TransFair USA to “Fair Trade USA”. TransFair has applied for the new name to be trademarked, along with the term [...]
Organic Seed Alliance Publishes State of Organic Seed
Posted in Farm Issues, Organic Foods, Reports, Sustainable Agriculture on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) released an extensive report last weekend at the Organicology conference in Portland, Oregon, that serves as the first comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities in building the organic seed sector. The report, titled State of Organic Seed: Advancing the Viability and Integrity of Organic Seed Systems, is an ongoing project [...]
Tell President Obama not to cave to Monsanto!
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Herbicides, Organic Foods, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Unbelievably, over the past 12 days the Obama administration has approved not one, but two of Monsanto’s Round Up Ready genetically modified (GMO) crops. On Thursday January 27th, the USDA made the decision, under the directive of the White House, to fully deregulate Roundup Ready alfalfa, followed by the partial deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar [...]
