Organics in the News
Small Farmers Pushed to Plant GM Seed
DURBAN, Jul 21 (IPS) - Baphethile Mntambo has been farming organically for the past five years because she knows that avoiding chemicals will in the long-term benefit her yield. She decided not to plant genetically modified seeds ...
Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
Factory farming takes a big, hidden toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America's economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock increasingly demanded by American consumers, co...
Is Organic Food Really Healthier?
Don't ask the US federal government whether there are any health benefits to eating organic food. It won't tell. No mere coincidence, then, that no pictures of farmers or farms (or fertilizers or pesticides) appear in the USDA foo...
WSU offers first online organic ag certificate
Washington State University is offering people who want to enter the booming organic foods industry the nation's first online certificate in organic agriculture, the school said Monday.
Washington State is already the first uni...
Hightower rallies crowd against corporate agriculture
Progressive author and columnist Jim Hightower energized a gathering of 160 people at a conference about the impacts of large livestock operations in Wisconsin with homespun humor and sharp wit.
Praising the group of farmers...
