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	<title>What's Organic</title>
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	<description>in farming, food, products and the environment</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>B.Y.O.B.</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/12/31/byob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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&#8230;in this case it stands for Bring Your Own Bag, a campaign by the New American Dream, and part of their Buy Wisely page of online resources that promote conscious consuming. (And while you&#8217;re at it, go ahead and fill that bag with organic food &#8212; just do it thoughtfully.)
Here you&#8217;ll find choices that protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s abundant evidence&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/11/29/abundant-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer buying pressure will likely force the entire food chain in North America to swear off GE within the next two years. Such a tipping point was achieved in Europe in April 1999. Australia should be taking notice of the response to GE foods throughout the world. It is certainly not the time to let the state bans expire.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Organic Milk?</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/09/13/whats-organic-milk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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Maybe not what it purports to be when it&#8217;s from Aurora: the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that from 2003 through 2006 Aurora Organic Dairy willfully violated the federal requirements for organic milk production by illegally failing to provide pasture, and by selling milk from cows that were not fully under organic management. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Small (or, Mad in China)</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/09/12/start-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;maybe am finally beginning to win the battle against my inner evil-american (actually less of a battle than huddled in a corner with hands protecting my head)&#8230;&#8221;
Though I live in a house that costs less than $500 a month and drive a soon-to-be fourteen year-old car &#8212; I am still a consumer. And so do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Get It!</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/08/21/they-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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An article published this Sunday in the Regional section of the New York Times titled &#8220;In Pursuit of Farm Fresh Flavor&#8221; by Kim Severson did a lot to restore my faith in &#8212; well &#8212; human cognitive functioning (yes, it&#8217;s been that bad). But on a smaller scale, my faith in the mainstream media is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is it not about the soil?</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/08/03/when-is-it-not-about-the-soil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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When it&#8217;s about hydro- or aquaponics!
The folks at Environmental Working Group (EWG) have created an informative video addressing whether hydroponics are organic. Watch EWG Analyst Kristan Markey HERE as he answers the question.
In 2006, Steve Diver NCAT Agriculture Specialist and ATTRA (National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service) published an extensive report on Aquaponics – the technique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Marketing 101: A term definition</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/07/12/organic-marketing-101-a-term-definition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Core value is marketing-speak for &#8220;what&#8217;s the best approach to influencing how a person spends their money.&#8221; See an example HERE.  To emphasize how important this concept is to the consumer marketing of organics, in a Google search using the terms &#8220;core value,&#8221; the link above (to a page on the Whole Foods Market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Values</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsorganic.org/2007/07/12/core-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a consumer, I am finished worrying about whether or not to trust the USDA Organic label. It&#8217;s clearly not to be trusted. I understand this mind-set could put some organic farmers and producers in an unenviable position right now. And so supporting farmers and producers of organic products &#8212; even in the face of [...]]]></description>
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