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USDA Tightens Organic Standards on Dairy and Livestock

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

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photo: J. Novak As organic food has grown in popularity so too have the size of organic dairies and farms in this country. And in the last ten years questions have been raised about whether these large scale so-called organic dairies and farms have been abiding by all of the regulations which define them as organic in the first place. Some of the regulations themselves have been a bit gray and lacking in clarity. Issues have been specifically raised about whether enormous farms have been

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Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Shouldn't Be Deregulated by USDA (Opinion)

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Published Feb. 1, 2010 at 7:30 a.m.

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Alfalfa fields in Idaho. Photo: Sam Beebe/Ecotrust via Flickr ... This opinion piece was contributed by Robynn Shrader, CEO of the National Cooperative Grocers Association ... Ten years ago in the United States, the word locavore didn't exist in our vocabulary ... There were less than half the number of farmers markets that currently thrive throughout the country and sales of organic food were less than one fifth of what ...

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The Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Food, Food Fights, and Future Food (Slideshow)

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Published Dec. 28, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

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As the decade rolls to a close, we can look to 2009 as a pretty amazing year in food. From organic food to organic agriculture, genetically modified organisms to food shortages, and food fights to the future of food, it was a big year in food in 2009; here's a look back (including a quick look ahead) at the year that was ...

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Should Food Stamps Be Used To Buy Organic Food?

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Published Nov. 29, 2009 at 2:15 p.m.

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Grocery cart undecided ... Image credit:Keith B. Evans, at Simple Gallery ... Excerpt. Washington Post has covered the rapid growth of Food Stamp use in recent months ... While the Reagan-era stigma attached to public aid in the form of "Food Stamps" seems to have faded in the face of spreading US unemployment, people are thinking and writing about what is, and is not, appropriate food to buy with taxpayer support. Farm-market use is a possibility, ...

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UK Supermarkets Told to 'Green Up Their Act'

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Published Nov. 9, 2009 at 6:23 p.m.

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Photo credit: yisris via Flickr Organic food and the Slow Food Movement are big parts of the green food experience in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, the supermarkets that help supply the movement are lagging behind, according to the government. The ...

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Does Organic Also Mean Sustainable or Just Non-Toxic?

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Published Sept. 21, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.

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Family farm versus corporate farm. Image via: Chumlee10 on Flickr.com Did you know quite a few, if not most, of organic food companies these days are actually owned by major labels that you stopped supporting years ago? Is that really a problem, since it means that organic is available just about everywhere these days, or does it mean the movement has lost part of its soul? New article by the Rea ...

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7 Things You Didn't Know About Organic Agriculture

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Published Sept. 10, 2009 at 2:45 p.m.

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Photo credit: eurleif Even a casual TreeHugger knows that organic food is a greener option for the planet, but there's a lot more to growing it than just planting seeds in the sun, watering the sprouts (and skipping the pesticides) and talking to the plants as they grow; organic agriculture is a complicated, interesting, constantly changing process. Here are seven things you may not have realized about organic agriculture ...

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Green Earth Organics

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Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 9:40 a.m.

Green Earth Organics offers a weekly and bi-weekly organic food delivery service that make it easier for you to tread lightly on the planet ... read more ...

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Sprayed or Not: Do We Always Have to Ask?

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Published Aug. 22, 2009 at 9:32 a.m.

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Image credit: Carrboro Farmers Market From organic food to buying carbon offsets, transparency, accountability and consumer choice are important elements of the sustainability puzzle - but must it always be down to us to ensure it? Last weekend my wife and I were at the farmers market buying some eggplant. My wife asked me to check if it was sprayed. For some reason, as I made my purchase, I was tongue tied - I just didn't want to g ...

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High Expectations For Organic Food Could Be Off

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Published July 9, 2009 at 9:29 a.m.

"Thinking big." ... Image credit:The Economist.Everything has limits ... Case in point, regarding generally high expectations for organic food growing in importance, and as reported in Environmental Leader, 'based on recent national survey of consumers, organic food is expected to grow greatly in importance over the next decade,' let's review the powerful limits to that expectation being realized ...

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