Organics in the News
Some Good News on Food Prices
..As the price of fossil fuels and commodities like grain climb, nutritionally questionable, high-profit ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup will, too...And if American staples like soda, fast-food hamburgers and frozen dinn...
Study links Parkinson's disease to long-term pesticide exposure
Scientists have found further evidence of a link between Parkinson's disease and long-term exposure to pesticides.
A study of more than 300 people with the neurological disease — which can affect movements such as walking, talk...
Are Organic Crops as Productive as Conventional? Probably, Says University of Wisconsin Study
Can organic cropping systems be as productive as conventional systems? The answer is an unqualified, "Yes" for alfalfa or wheat and a qualified "Yes most of the time" for corn and soybeans according to research reported by scienti...
Introduction of cloned animals concerns interest groups
The US Center for Food Safety (CFS) is urging Congress to pass an amendment to the Farm Bill, the Mikulski-Spector Amendment (HR4855). This bill requires a moratorium on the introduction of meat and milk from cloned animals and th...
States Move to Label Cloned Food
The debate over cloned food in the past year has been ferocious. As the Food & Drug Administration weighed whether to allow food from cloned animals into the country's food supply, more than 30,000 public comments flooded in, with...
