Organics in the News

USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.

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Why organic food is good for you

There is now a significant body of scientific evidence from around the world that organic vegetables, fruit and milk generally contain more nutrients than non-organic food.

Stirring up nutrition goals for farm bill

Parents, nutritionists and physicians want Congress to overhaul the legislation, which they say promotes fatty school lunches, in an effort to fight obesity.

When Ann Cooper took over the lunch program for Berkeley schools, she...

Down on the Farm With Your Sleeves Rolled Up

AT an early morning hour most vacationers would spend unconscious, a few intrepid city dwellers outfitted in borrowed boots hunch over a creek full of watercress, carefully cutting the plants with kitchen scissors.

Hoeing, seed...

Proposed Ban on Genetically Modified Corn in Europe

European Union environmental officials have determined that two kinds of genetically modified corn could harm butterflies, affect food chains and disturb life in rivers and streams, and they have proposed a ban on the sale of the ...