Over ten years ago, Bill Duesing of Solar Farm Education asked the question in his article Living on the Earth, June 7, 1996: What’s Organic? His answer was: the soil. With the battles over genetically modified crops, questions related to legislation and labeling, and all of the marketing of organic products and the obfuscation […]
Author Archive for B_organic
It’s all about the soil
Published by May 30th, 2007 in Marketing, Resources, Government, Industry, Agriculture, Farming and Organic. 0 CommentsWho’s in charge — FDA puts science loophole in organic labeling standards
Published by March 25th, 2007 in Consumer, Regulation, Government, Biotech, Industry, Animals, Products, Labels, Agriculture and Organic. 0 CommentsThe cloning issue leads a February 2 AP article to shed light on the relationship of USDA Organic label and GM foods.
The article Organic seal may soon mean ‘clone-free,’ too - Meat, milk from cloned animals won’t get their own warning label addresses labeling standards and public acceptance of cloned animal products in the […]
Time Writes About Organic Farming and the Non-GMO Label
Published by March 19th, 2007 in Farming, Consumer, Regulation, Food, Animals, Products, Agriculture and Organic. 0 CommentsThe March 14 article in Time Magazine, When Organic Isn’t Really Organic by Jyoti Thottam begins “When you buy a gallon of organic milk, you expect to get tasty milk from happy cows who haven’t been subjected to antibiotics, hormones or pesticides. But you might also unknowingly be getting genetically modified cattle feed.” Read the […]
Remember the magic beans…
Published by February 4th, 2007 in Books, Resources, Farming, Food, Environment, Agriculture and Organic. 0 Comments…because they may be a real answer, when used along with other techniques of sustainable agriculture.
“Sustainable agriculture is not a concretely defined set of technologies, nor is it a simple model or package. It needs to be conceived of as a process for social learning.” –Jules Pretty
Farmers in Central America can and do use […]
Back from hiatus…
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in Government, Marketing, Biotech, Regulation, Consumer, Labels, Food and Organic. 0 Comments…and realizing it’s time to re-focus this blog.
The topic that causes me the most distress on a personal level is genetic engineering and biotech practices and their implications for our health, environment and food supply. But there are good people out there watching and writing about this. Among them are:
The Union of Concerned Scientists Food […]
