Organics in the News

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...

My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)

If you've stood in line at a farmers' market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand.

But consumers who would like to be ab...

Attack of the superweeds

Farmers planted an additional 30 million acres of GM crops in 2007, an area nearly equal to the land mass of Iowa (a huge swath of which itself is planted in GM crops). Overall, GM crops cover 282.4 million acres, ISAAA claims -- ...

In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet

You are what to eat.” Or so the saying goes. In American culture, healthy food is a national preoccupation. But then why are Americans becoming less healthy and more overweight?

Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan ar...

Indiana Becomes Second State to Reject rbST Label Restrictions

The Indiana legislature last week rejected a bill that would have prohibited processors from making truthful compositional claims regarding rbST on dairy products labels. This decision follows action taken last month by the Pennsy...