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Organics Under Attack
The OCA has a long history of defending the integrity of organic standards. Last September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under pressure from corporate interests represented by the Organic Trade Association, made our job harder. They also made it more important than ever for consumers to do their homework, even when buying USDA certified organic products.…
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Is It Time For A Meat Tax?
Originally posted on The Dish: Charles Kenny makes the case: The Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that in 2012, 966 million pigs, 1.5 billion cattle, and 22 billion chickens were roaming (actually, mostly not roaming) the world’s farms. For cattle, that’s five times the number in 1890 and for pigs about a…
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Organic Farming – Solution to World Hunger
The following article by Paul Hanley in Saskatoon’s The Star Phoenix succinctly lays out the benefits of organic farming and the issues with industrial farming. To summarize it in a nutshell, “We need to start paying farmers for ecological services, not just food. The money can come from repurposing perverse subsidies on fossil fuels and farming,…
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A Middle-Schooler’s Idea To Save The Federal Government $136 Million
Originally posted on The Dish: Just change the font of printed documents.
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Antibiotics Promote Weight Gain in Animals and Humans
By Pagan Kennedy – reposted from the New York Times: IF you walk into a farm-supply store today, you’re likely to find a bag of antibiotic powder that claims to boost the growth of poultry and livestock. That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young animals’…
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Solar Power Used to Support Milk Cooperatives
The Times of India notes how solar power comes to the rescue of milk cooperatives in Bangalore: As many as 522 milk cooperatives in the state are using solar power to run electronic weighing and testing machines, all thanks to an initiative by the SELCO Foundation Co-founded by Magsaysay Award winner Harish Hande, the foundation…
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Principal Six Co-operative Trade Movement
I call on cooperatives as a sales representative for several fair trade companies. I came across P6 for the first time this February so I found this article in the La Cross Tribune intriguing. The Principle Six (P6) Co-operative Trade Movement is an initiative created by cooperatives that promotes small farmers/producers, cooperative businesses and local…
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Thoughts At Twilight
Originally posted on The Dish: Roger Angell, age 93, pens a lovely essay about growing old: A few notes about age is my aim here, but a little more about loss is inevitable. “Most of the people my age is dead. You could look it up” was the way Casey Stengel put it. He was…
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