Organics in the News
'Evangelist' for Organics Going Against the Grain in Iowa
In the midst of sprawling corn and soybean fields, industrial animal-processing plants and ethanol refineries, Woodbury County is charting an unusual course. It's trying to go whole-hog into organic...
Who Owns the Dead Zone?
Agricultural pollution flowing out of the Midwest kills aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, with seafood harvesters and eaters paying the cost for this displaced cost of “cheap food.”
Tiny pesticide exposure during pregnancy can have long-term impact on female offspring
Study confirms chlorpyrifos levels far below "toxic" threshold can impair learning, change brain function and alter thyroid levels into adulthood for tested mice. A new animal study accentuates...
Biotech crops cause big jump in pesticide use-report
The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in...
Good food nation
In the last three decades, childhood obesity in the United States has become a massive public-health problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage of...
GMO Giant Monsanto Loses Another Day in Court
France`s highest court has ruled that Monsanto lied about the safety of its weed killing herbicide Roundup. The decision came just days ago and confirms an earlier court judgment in France finding...
The Carnivore’s Dilemma
IS eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? It’s true that food production is an important contributor to climate change. And the claim that meat (especially beef) is...
