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News 2010

Mar 20 - Despite injunction, raw milk still flowing in Fraser Valley

Mar 20 - Pasteurization kills what is healthful in this milk

Mar 20 - One failed test sinks family business

Mar 20 - Food Friday: First Lady to Grocery Manufacturers Association: “Let’s Move”

Mar 19 - Dreamers and Doers: Trying to save the family farm

Mar 19 - Idaho raw milk bill would allow cow share arrangements

Mar 19 - Farmers Could Soon Be Able to Sell Raw Milk

Mar 19 - B.C. Supreme Court judges raw milk a health hazard

Mar 19 - USDA/NSF Int. 2010 Food Safety Edu. Conference to Attract over 600 Food Safety Experts

Mar 19 - B.C.'s highest court grants injunction against unpasteurized Chilliwack dairy

Mar 19 - Senate Ag Committee Unanimously Passes Raw Milk Bill

Mar 19 - Health authority wins case to shut down raw dairy

Mar 19 - Unique recipes using blue cheese

Mar 19 - A different kind of CSA? Maybe.

Mar 17 - Public radio quiz show to broadcast from Eau Claire

Mar 17 - Local slaughterhouses come back to life

Mar 17 - Lobby group serves raw milk to protest modernization act

Mar 17 - Raw milk bill passes Senate Ag committee unanimously

Mar 17 - Modified Wisconsin raw milk legislation moves ahead

Mar 17 - EU food safety agency says most raw chicken in Europe carries food-poisoning bugs

Mar 17 - Delauro sees U.S. food safety law in 2010

Mar 17 - DOJ's Holder calls for Historic Era of Antitrust Enforcement in Agriculture

Mar 17 - Appellate Court Decision for Meadowsweet Dairy

Mar 16 - PepsiCo: No Sugary Drinks in World Schools

Mar 16 - The Femivore’s Dilemma

Mar 16 - Animal registry ruling lauded

Mar 16 - Mega-dairies: Farming solution or big problem?

Mar 16 - Alaska cheese makers seeking lesser regulations

Mar 16 - Lax oversight of animal protection rules at slaughterhouses probed by lawmakers

Mar 16 - US One of Top Five Food Safety Violators

Mar 15 - Raw Milk Supporters Make Presence Felt at Raw Milk Hearing in Wisconsin

Mar 15 - Vinehout, Danou follow ups on raw milk

Mar 15 - Fund Represents Two Iowa Cow Share Owners

Mar 15 - APHIS Seeks Comment on Response to Petitions to Deregulate Light Brown Apple Moth

Mar 15 - FDA orders widespread food recall

Mar 15 - Bees in the City? New York May Let the Hives Come Out of Hiding

Mar 15 - Farm land or food land?

Mar 15 - Power in Community: How a Local Food Movement Changed a City

Mar 15 - Researchers introducing sustainable agriculture practices to improve food security

Mar 15 - Volunteers + Small Farm = Crop Mob

Mar 15 - Elusiveness turns otherwise unremarkable products into cult favorites

Mar 15 - STC goes organic

Mar 15 - No-fail gardening

Mar 15 - McGuinty defends appeal of raw milk verdict, as farmer calls it a persecution

Mar 15 - CDC uses supermarket shopper-card data to zero in on source of salmonella outbreak

Mar 15 - Historic food recall emerges as food safety reform nears passage

Mar 14 - The ‘femivore’: New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback?

Mar 14 - Foodborne Illness By The Numbers

Mar 14 - New York City’s Queens County Farm Museum

Mar 14 - 'Ethical Eating' Goes Mainstream

Mar 14 - Taxpayer-subsidized manure digesters stimulate factory farm pollution

Mar 14 - Animal Factory

Mar 14 - US regulators examine competition in agriculture

Mar 14 - Obama Keeps Two Factory Farm Promises - Will Hold "National Rural Summit"

Mar 13 - Dispatches: Small farmers not giving up

Mar 13 - We Made It Ourselves | Organic Smokehouse Butter

Mar 13 - Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'

Mar 13 - FDA urges stronger safeguards for spices

Mar 12 - Appellate Division Supports State's Regulatory Jurisdiction Relating to the Sale of Raw Milk

Mar 12 - Stricter oversight of dietary supplements closer

Mar 12 - Family-farm advocates call for U.S. to ‘bust up big ag’

Mar 12 - Going ‘Beyond Organic’ at the Va. Biological Farming Conference

Mar 12 - Monsanto, Expected To Expand Revenue In 2012, Affecting Farms

Mar 11 - Kohl Holds Hearing on FDA Budget, Funding Priorities

Mar 11 - Oklahoma Raw Milk Community Loss

Mar 11 - WFU backs raw milk sales bills

Mar 11 - Dairy leaves city for country expansion

Mar 11 - Listen to Mark McAfee's Raw Milk Debate on Wisconsin Public Radio

Mar 11 - Raw milk consumers seek law in Wisconsin

Mar 11 - Raw milk hearing

Mar 11 - Consumer groups hit organic product labels

Mar 11 - Raw milk hearing turnout huge

Mar 11 - Raw milk hearing draws hundreds

Mar 11 - Large crowd for raw milk public hearing

Mar 11 - Hundreds show up to support raw milk sales

Mar 11 - Hundreds attend raw milk hearing

Mar 10 - UPDATE 2: Hundreds turn out for raw milk bill hearing in Eau Claire

Mar 10 - Hundreds pack raw milk hearing in Eau Claire

Mar 10 - Mr. Gjerde goes to Washington

Mar 10 - Hundreds pack hearing in Eau Claire about legalizing sale of raw milk in Wisconsin

Mar 10 - Big Shots Discuss Raw Milk Behind Closed Doors

Mar 10 - How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World

Mar 10 - 'Crop Mob' volunteers help small farms in North Carolina

Mar 10 - Amish farmer wins fight over registering livestock

Mar 10 - Local debate about raw milk runs deep

Mar 10 - Alaska cheese makers seeking lesser regulations

Mar 10 - Raw Milk Sales Controversial in Wisconsin

Mar 9 - Game On!  Raw Milk Debate Airs On Wisconsin Public Radio

Mar 9 - Venture capitalists meet with local, organic farmers to revolutionize food

Mar 9 - Literary Legend, Poet and Farmer Wendell Berry to Speak - May 3, 2010 - Arlington, VA

Mar 9 - Legislation reconsiders 1950s law on milk pasteurization

Mar 9 - State lawsuit over raw milk sale headed to trial

Mar 9 - Plano dairy farm seeing increased demand for raw milk

Mar 9 - Raw Milk 'Test' Set for Wednesday

Mar 9 - New state dairy regulations irk small producers

Mar 8 - Selling raw milk in Wisconsin could soon be legal

Mar 8 - FDA Faulted for Giving Additives a Free Pass

Mar 8 - Congress Gets Fed a New Taste of Food Safety

Mar 8 - ‘It was a great day for individual rights and freedoms’: raw milk co-op producer

Mar 7 - Commissioner Asks USDA to Consider Class I Floor for Milk Prices

Mar 7 - The Skinny on Oscar-Nominated Documentaries 'Food Inc.' and 'The Cove'

Mar 7 - Virginia Farms Find The Green In Organic

Mar 7 - How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

Mar 7 - Some fret about push for smaller farm sizes

Mar 7 - Raw Milk and SB 201

Mar 7 - Video: Chef talks food safety

Mar 7 - USDA veterinarian testifies agency endangers public health

Mar 7 - Action Needed to Better Enforce Humane Slaughter Act

Mar 7 - Federal Judge Weighs Ban on Herbicide-Resistant Beets

Mar 7 - USDA Deputy Secretary touts fed support for small farmers

Mar 7 - Raw review: Raw milk public hearing to be in Eau Claire

Mar 5 - WAPF ACTION ALERT ON SENATE FOOD SAFETY BILL

Mar 5 - 2nd Annual International Raw Milk Symposium Registration Form

Mar 5 - Corn Farmers Say Food Inc. Shouldn't Win Oscar

Mar 5 - The True Cost of Cheap Food

Mar 5 - Health claims on food packages are under fire, but more shoppers rely on nutrition labels

Mar 3 - How Your Dining Hall Can Buy Local

Mar 3 - USDA research chief concerned about ‘safety of organic food’

Mar 3 - Sen. Harkin Sees Floor Action Coming Soon on Food Safety Legislation

Mar 3 - Cost of food-borne illnesses is deemed much higher than earlier estimates

Mar 3 - Raw-milk fans fight bans

Mar 3 - China woos Aussie dairy farmers at conference

Mar 3 - Foodborne Illness Costs US $152 Billion Annually: Study

Mar 3 - Are you a farmer at heart? Start a ‘Crop Mob’

Mar 3 - Obama’s cholesterol beef isn’t with the burgers, but the buns

Mar 3 - New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health

Mar 3 - A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti

Mar 3 - Man Gives Company To Employees On 81st Birthday

Mar 3 - Study: Food-borne illnesses cost U.S. $152 billion

Mar 2 - Bill encourages state agencies to buy local

Mar 2 - Utah co-ops offer array of locally produced groceries

Mar 2 - Officials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal

Mar 2 - An inconvenient challenge: Eat 'real food' for a month

Mar 2 - 6 Baby Steps Toward a More Sustainable Animal Diet

Mar 1 - Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets

Mar 1 - U.S. is satisfying a hunger for tougher organic meat and milk rules

Mar 1 - Public Hearing to be Held in Eau Claire Over Raw Milk Bill

Mar 1 - Local does it

Mar 1 - Watertown naturopathic physician promotes raw diet in 'Untold Story of Milk'

Mar 1 - Framingham health board eases raw milk rules

Mar 1 - House passes raw milk compromise

Mar 1 - Camel milk is more nutritious than cow milk

Mar 1 - Legislative Weekly Reports-Frerichs, Wismer, Hanson, & Dennert

Mar 1 - Raw Milk Makers Want Their Spots On Grocery Shelves

Mar 1 - Author of raw milk bill critical of DATCP action

Mar 1 - Co-op will feature locally grown food

Mar 1 - Kenyans told to consume more milk

Mar 1 - Dairy farmers claim they're getting a raw deal

Mar 1 - Galleria mall is giant greenhouse, raising organic crops in Cleveland

Mar 1 - Farm-to-School: The next big thing?

Mar 1 - Could you change 10 percent of your diet to locally-sourced foods?

Mar 1 - Dairy industry leaders unite to offer recommendations to USDA

Mar 1 - USDA to boost wildlife habitat, trim cropland

Mar 1 - No bull! Ridge woman is drinking milk straight from the cow!

Mar 1 - Dairies benefit as more people give raw milk a shot

Mar 1 - At issue: Should raw milk sales be legal?

Mar 1 - Chipotle Supports Film about Kids and Food

Feb 26 - Idaho Legislature rejects raw milk rules

Feb 26 - What is America eating and where? USDA's interactive website has answers

Feb 26 - Public Hearing to be Held in Eau Claire Over Raw Milk Bill

Feb 22 - U.S. Weighs How to Track Diseased Livestock

Feb 22 - Organic On A Budget

Feb 22 - Green Mountain College Introduces New Intensive Sustainable Agriculture Major

Feb 22 - Farmer-consumer group challenges FDA authority to ban interstate raw-milk sales

Feb 22 - Raw milk debate spills into capitols, courts

Feb 22 - 'Comploo' Design Heated Entirely by Organic Waste

Feb 22 - Maine dairy farmers put new organic milk on market

Feb 22 - Plano dairy reaps benefits of raw milk movement

Feb 19 - Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund et al v. US Department of Health and Human Services et al

Feb 19 - Food bill de-regulating raw and local foods moves into House

Feb 19 - Food movement goes from hippie to hip-hop

Feb 19 - Food bill moves on to full House

Feb 19 - Local food movement putting more stress on Wisconsin farmers

Feb 19 - Ontario Court of Justice Decision - Regina v. Schmidt

Feb 18 - Black Farmers, USDA Agree to $1.25 Billion Settlement

Feb 18 - KENYA: Bag a farm

Feb 18 - A new use for urban high-rises: farming

Feb 18 - FAO report analyzes the rapidly changing global livestock production

Feb 18 - Two-year Anniversary of Historic Meat Recall is Marked by New Meat Recall of 5 Million lbs

Feb 18 - New Rule Crushes Organic Mega-Dairies and Is Good News for Small Farms
Improving Raw Milk Policy

Feb 18 - Improving Raw Milk Policy

Feb 17 - Lawmakers working on bill to allow the sale of raw milk

Feb 17 - Kenya urged to set up milk reserve

Feb 17 - Food fight: raw milk

Feb 17 - RAW MILK: WHAT'S THE RISK?

Feb 17 - Premier defends appeal of raw milk ruling

Feb 17 - Ontario farmer acquitted in raw-milk case

Feb 17 - Raw request: Farm asked to share information about milk sales

Feb 16 - Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt’s Queen’s Park news conference release

Feb 16 - Raw milk farmer to continue fight

Feb 16 - Lawmaker Blasts DATCP Probe of Farm Over Raw Milk

Feb 16 - Controversy over Wisconsin’s raw milk sales ban

Feb 16 - Raw milk advocate says he was threatened

Feb 16 - USDA's Food Environment Atlas 

Feb 16 - Ontario farmer to develop volunteer guidelines for raw-milk production

Feb 16 - State crackdown on raw milk sale stirs protest

Feb 16 - As Food-Safety Push Grows, Consumers Sort Out Dos, Don’ts

Feb 16 - Monsanto Took Over NOFA Convention Says Ripton Candidate for VT Senate

Feb 16 - 'We need to do a better job' or Wisconsin will keep losing valuable farmland

Feb 15 - How being vegetarian does more harm to the environment than eating meat

Feb 15 - Life tastes good for young farmers

Feb 13 - To make school food healthy, Michelle Obama has a tall order

Feb 13 - A Balance Between the Factory and the Local Farm

Feb 13 - USDA imposes new standards for milk to qualify as organic

Feb 13 - Ontario appeals acquittal of controversial dairyman

Feb 13 - Raw milk crusader says province wasting time with appeal

Feb 13 - Raw milk appeal filed

Feb 12 - NAIS Decision Greeted With Rejoicing, Some Concern

Feb 12 - Dairyman: Demand for raw milk will grow

Feb 12 - New USDA Rules Establish Strong Organic Standards for Pasture and Livestock

Feb 12 - Raw Milk Gets Push At Capitol

Feb 12 - Dan Popkey: Raw-milk dispute reveals covert culture

Feb 12 - TED Eats: Food, The Environment, and Health

Feb 11 - McItaly burger controversial in home country

Feb 11 - The Road to Hell is Paved with the Processed Food Safety Act

Feb 11 - USDA to work with states on tracking to contain disease

Feb 11 - Should Ireland’s food be Irish?

Feb 11 - Raw milk producer hopes B.C. will respect decision

Feb 10 - Court case heats up raw dairy debate in Canada

Feb 10 - Court approves raw milk co-op

Feb 10 - Exploring the benefits of a family cow and raw milk

Feb 10 - SIGNUP: The Week of Eating In

Feb 10 - Chinese farms cause more pollution than factories, says official survey

Feb 10 - Food from local farmers and smallholders show increased sales

Feb 10 - Mayor at White House forum to explain healthy Somerville

Feb 10 - McKillip comes through with bill to allow raw milk

Feb 10 - Lawmaker introduces bill to legalize raw milk in Georgia

Feb 10 - Wisconsin - How DATCP Denies Raw Milk Consumers Their Rights

Feb 09 - Whatever happened to the government’s war on raw milk? Just a shift in tactics

Feb 09 - Food safety regulations eat away at small farmer wallets

Feb 09 - India: “Food Safety and Standards Act will hurt small traders”

Feb 09 - Why the Race to Improve Food Safety May Punish Those Who Produce the Safest and Healthiest Food

Feb 09 - A Farmer's Response to Stop GM Alfalfa

Feb 09 - China vows new food safety campaign

Feb 09 - Organic Burger Chain Signs First Overseas Franchise Deal

Feb 09 - Minnesota organic certification program adopted nationally

Feb 09 - New EU organic logo set for Europe's supermarkets

Feb 09 - FDA asks billions to strengthen food safety

Feb 09 - SIGNUP: The Week of Eating In

Feb 09 - Chinese farms cause more pollution than factories, says official survey

Feb 09 - Got Milk? A Disturbing Look at the Dairy Industry

Feb 08 - A look at Obama's 2011 budget for govt agencies

Feb 08 - ASPCA: Organic Milk Industry Harms More Cows Than Once Thought

Feb 08 - Soil Association confronts image of organic food as elitist and expensive

Feb 08 - How Do We Stop Hollowing Out the Middle of America?

Feb 08 - Mr. Farmer goes to Washington: Black farmers march to rally support for restitution

Feb 08 - WWII program enlisted for war on child obesity

Feb 08 - Farm to School Program Changes Kids' Views on Food

Feb 08 - Proposal in federal budget aims to boost organic food labels

Feb 08 - Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America

Feb 08 - The First Lady and Sam Kass Talk Child Nutrition on Today (VIDEO)

Feb 08 - Justice is the Best Stimulus

Feb 08 - The Morning the Milking Was Finished

Feb 08 - Fewer Than 1% of U.S. Farms Are Organic, USDA Says

Feb 08 - Urban farmers fight local laws to sow green biz

Feb 08 - Sticker Shock: Experts Say World Food Program's Afghan Relief Effort Overpriced

Feb 08 - Small is beautiful (and radical)

Feb 08 - Raw-milk lovers skirt the law

Feb 08 - New methods aim to keep E. coli in beef lower all year

Feb 08 - China Finds Tons of Tainted Milk Powder

Feb 08 - Health Department destroys thousands of dollars of local fruit

Feb 08 - Kenya: New fund seeks to cut milk hawking

Feb 08 - “Dean Foods have eliminated competition” says Dept. of Justice in a lawsuit

Feb 08 - Raw Milk Has a Day in Court

Feb 08 - As ancient cheeses go extinct, French sense threat to a pillar of their identity

Feb 08 - FDA Requests $4.03 Billion to Transform Food Safety System

Feb 08 - China jails food safety campaigner

Feb 08 - USDA tightens requirements to assure school lunch safety

Feb 08 - A1 Beta Casein: The Devil in Your Milk

Feb 08 - Bagged salad: How clean?

Feb 08 - The Mothers of Invention

Feb 08 - USDA takes accounting of organic farms

Feb 08 - The organic movement is a civic process, not a set of standards [corrected]

Feb 08 - USDA Announces that the NAIS Will by Replaced with New Animal Tracking Rules

Feb 08 - Jolley: USDA Tries Mouth-To-Mouth On NAIS

Feb 08 - USDA announces plans for new program to trace animals, to be administered by states

Feb 08 - USA - Questions about cattle identification

Feb 08 - USDA Announces New Framework for Animal Disease Traceability

Feb 08 - USDA Abandons Stalled Animal ID Program

Feb 08 - Radical Homemaking: Why Both Men and Women Should Get Back In Kitchen

Feb 01 - Obama's pick for food safety chief surprises consumer advocates

Feb 01 - Tagging laws are costing farmers dear

Feb 01 - Organic Farming Pioneer Found Dead

Feb 01 - Food author pushes for national food policy in Guelph speech

Feb 01 - Hope on the farm

Feb 01 - In uncertain times, growing your food is fashionable again

Feb 01 - Interview: Joel Salatin

Feb 01 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr Backs Vertical Farming

Feb 01 - TN green crusader puts ecovillage message to work worldwide

Feb 01 - UPDATE 3-Obama wants to end wealthy farmers' crop subsidies

Feb 01 - S.2758: Growing Safe Food Act of 2009

Feb 01 - Plant a Row Project enlists local gardeners to aid food pantries

Jan 29 - How Much Grass Must Be in Organic Milk?

Jan 29 - State of WI Shuts Down One Of The Oldest Biodynamic Farms For "Distributing" Raw Milk!

Jan 29 - Australia: Organic farming boosts farmers markets

Jan 29 - USDA Provides Funds for 2010 Exports

Jan 29 - Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development center to be created at Winrock

Jan 29 - Staunton shifts eyes toward culinary tourism

Jan 29 - Tasty Travel: Seven Tips To Explore New Farmers’ Markets When On The Road

Jan 29 - Colorado Farm Show: Dairy industry gets a peek at future

Jan 29 - The Local Approach

Jan 29 - Cow sharers see ruling as raw milk precedent

Jan 29 - SC senators approve healthier meals in schools

Jan 29 - Doyle announces ‘buy local’ grants

Jan 29 - State of the Union's School Lunch: Nutrition as National Defense and Fiscal Health

Jan 29 - Karen Selick: Got milk justice?

Jan 29 - Ontario dairy farmers urge appeal over raw milk

Jan 29 - Target says eliminating farmed salmon

Jan 29 - Raw milk fight becomes a symbol of food freedom

Jan 29 - Growing China's local food movement

Jan 29 - Ag Leaders React to State of the Union Address

Jan 29 - Looking Back at Farming Over the Past 10 Years

Jan 29 - Raw milk: let’s have regulation, not litigation

Jan 29 - Food Safety - Can FDA Be Trusted?

Jan 27 - Do consumers need protection from raw milk?

Jan 27 - Got Milk? A Disturbing Look at the Dairy Industry

Jan 26 - White House Announce Iintent to Nominate Dr. Hagen as USDA Under Sec for Food Safety

Jan 26 - How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Jan 26 - Got Raw Milk? An upcoming lecture assesses 'The Raw Milk Revolution'

Jan 26 - Russia - USDA have shot themselves in the foot with arrogance

Jan 26 - Dean's Foods driving up milk prices?

Jan 26 - USDA Awarding $310 Million for Broadband Projects

Jan 26 - Salami Recall: Pepper to Blame?

Jan 26 - Remembering La Gloria

Jan 26 - Farmer kills 51 cows then turns gun on himself

Jan 25 - Organic Family Dairies Being Crushed by Rogue Factory Farms (PR)

Jan 25 - Just what does organic mean?

Jan 25 - Organic cotton 'fraud' uncovered

Jan 20 - USDA Hosts Outreach Webinars on Mobile Slaughter Units

Jan 20 - Renewing Husbandry

Jan 20 - How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Jan 19 - Canadians trust natural over organic: poll

Jan 19 - 2 Northern WI Co.'s Receive Money From Buy Local, Buy WI Grant

Jan 19 - SRA Awarded $98 Million Contract from Food and Drug Administration

Jan 19 - Sharemilking, An Opportunity For Missouri’s Dairy Future

Jan 19 - An FDA Ban On Genetically-Engineered Milk Is 20 Years Overdue

Jan 19 - Food safety bills reach too far, cost too much

Jan 19 - Niman Ranch raises meat so naturally that even vegetarians may want a taste

Jan 19 - E. coli alert: Calif. company recalls 864,000 pounds of beef

Jan 18 - Haitians Fleeing Capital In Search Of Food, Safety

Jan 18 - Pressure's on for Obama to fill 'food czar' job at USDA

Jan 18 - China: Nearly 30% dried, pickled foods fail safety inspections

Jan 18 - USA - Trying to get food safety right seems impossible

Jan 18 - PA Raw Milk at Whole Foods.

Jan 17 - Vigorous growth at Peaceful Valley

Jan 17 - Carthage family helping folks by doing God’s work

Jan 17 - Shoppers warm up to winter farmers market

Jan 17 - Buy local to preserve Vermont farms

Jan 17 - Consider motivation in milk debate

Jan 17 - Patrons to partner with farmers

Jan 17 - Alliance for Raw Milk Launched in U.S. and Canada ally Scheduled for Date of Schmidt Verdict

Jan 17 - Creating successful change

Jan 14 - Alliance for Raw Milk Launched in U.S. and Canada

Jan 14 - Stirring interest in organic foods

Jan 14 - Family finds new future in food

Jan 14 - USDA Encourages Farmers Within Chesapeake Bay Watershed to Signup for Conservation Program

Jan 14 - Meeting the Demand: Growing Markets for Sustainable Meat and Dairy

Jan 14 - Lake County farms vanishing

Jan 13 - USDA Opens Public Comment on Deregulation of Genetically Engineered Corn Modified for Insect Resistance

Jan 13 - Sample of Nestlé Cookie Dough Has E. Coli Bacteria

Jan 13 - Organic. It's Worth it in Schools.

Jan 13 - New FDA deputy to lead food-safety mandate

Jan 13 - USDA SCIENTISTS, COOPERATORS SEQUENCE SOY GENOME

Jan 13 - National Organic Program: Proposed Amendments to List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Crops)

Jan 13 - Notice: Draft Environmental Impact Statement available for Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

Jan 13 - Notice: Petition for Determination on Nonregulated Status for Genetically Engineered, Insect-Resistant Corn: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc.

Jan 13 - Advocates of raw milk consumption state case

Jan 13 - Raw milk supporters take their fight to the Missouri State Milk Board

Jan 12 - Rutgers University Seminar Series on Raw Milk

Jan 12 - Raw ambition: Carthage dairy avoids pasteurization process

Jan 12 - Decision day draws near in raw milk case

Jan 12 - Raw Milk Debate Goes Before MO Milk Board

Jan 12 - USDA assists Afghan farmers

Jan 12 - Four Kohl Nominees Named to USDA’S Dairy Industry Advisory Committee

Jan 12 - USDA dairy panel drafts two from Turlock, Hilmar

Jan 12 - FDA’s food safety blogger doesn’t think meat safety is a problem

Jan 12 - State agency to review raw milk issue

Jan 12 - DATCP: Nilsestuen appoints panel to consider raw milk issue

Jan 12 - Lawmaker: Raw milk production could create new farmers

Jan 12 - Gates Foundation picks new head of ag program

Jan 12 - Inside the FDA: Food Safety in 2010

Jan 12 - Food giveaway intended to improve farms' image

Jan 12 - Empty Agriculture offices, including food safety, raise concerns

Jan 12 - USDA buys Fluidigm test for cattle

Jan 12 - How US is tackling opium trade in Afghanistan poppy heartland

Jan 12 - Organic Alchemy Looks to Turn Waste into Energy

Jan 11 - The Growth of Citizen Co-Ops Is a Positive Development As Corporations Fail Us in Every Way

Jan 11 - DuPont Pledges Support to My American Farm Initiative

Jan 11 - Does that smokey flavor come with a health cost?

Jan 11 - U.S. and Canadian Alliances for Raw Milk (ARMs) Formed for Farm Food Freedom

Jan 11 - Where America Stands: Food Safety

Jan 11 - USDA misleads on farming’s climate future

Jan 11 - Farmer Campaigns for Nutrient Dense Food Production

Jan 11 - How to Find Grass-fed Raw Milk for Your Family

Jan 11 - Boy thinks outside the coop, sells eggs

Jan 11 - 'We believe in land conservation:' How neighbors are helping save one Vermont farm

Jan 11 - India: ‘Organic farming to be popularised in a big way’

Jan 10 - A Young Reader Weighs In: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Young Reader’s Edition

Jan 10 - Phillipines: Halal food for your thought

Jan 10 - Protection of Food Supply Faces Problems

Jan 10 - Is the Obama administration about to eat the foodies’ lunch?

Jan 8 - Raw milk experts question 'dangerous' CDC findings

Jan 8 - Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food

Jan 8 - Food industry 'too secretive'

Jan 8 - Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund – FTCLDF

Jan 8 - Savannah's Biscuit Police arrest Dangerous Criminal in Undercover Sting!

Jan 7 - Family save £6,000 a year bypassing supermarkets

Jan 7 - China Tainted Milk Problem Kept Secret for Months

Jan 7 - Milk: do we need a dairy godmother?

Jan 6 - Kathryn Rem: Restaurant meals under a microscope

Jan 6 - New shrimp-farming method could revitalize the U.S. industry

Jan 6 - Some say food safety regulations threaten wildlife

Jan 6 - Discard raw milk from Home on the Range, public urged

Jan 6 - How to Help

Jan 6 - Raw milk stopped

Jan 5 - "Food Rules": A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis

Jan 5 - Civil dialogues about food can lead to understanding and change

Jan 5 - Organic farming and weight loss the money spinners in 2010

Jan 5 - Michigan: 2009 House Bill 5280 (Exempt certain “cottage food operations” from licensure)

Jan 5 - Homebased food processing now allowed in New Mexico

Jan 5 - Pollan on the Daily Show

Jan 5 - It takes a community to sustain a small farm

Jan 5 - School Lunches: Push for Healthier Foods Faces Barriers

Jan 5 - Raw milk drinkers defiant as health authorities crack down

Jan 5 - Government crackdown on raw milk expands

Jan 5 - Springfield Missouri: Where farmers are branded criminals

Jan 5 - The President of Slow Food Nation

Jan 5 - Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage

Jan 5 - Government’s model for sustainable farming isn’t working – Farron

Jan 5 - Bully tactics infuriate her

Jan 5 - Michelle Obama's Iron Chef America appearance: Is it the boost the sustainable food movement needs?

Jan 5 - FBD: Study claims supply of local food lagging behind demand (UK)

Jan 5 - Facility opens doors for local chefs

Jan 5 - Egypt: New report provides detailed analysis of the Food and Drink market

Jan 4 - China: Beijing faces second milk scare

Jan 4 - Belching cows can help to rescue our planet

Jan 4 - Growing hops a way to revitalize state's farmland

Jan 3 - Raw-milk issue not going away

Jan 3 - A contentious year for Framingham's Board of Health

Jan 3 - Can farming save Detroit?

Jan 3 - In a reversal, Americans now want to 'eat local'

Jan 3 - ORGANIC ... OR NOT

Jan 2 - Going Organic Helps A Small Dairy Stay Afloat

Jan 2 - Florida aims to harvest green business

Jan 2 - Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef

Jan 1 - Cheaper Local Food? Expensive Local Food Myth Dispelled

Jan 1 - For farmers, federal aid checks ease pain, but not worries

Jan 1 - Edible Policy - A Raw Deal

Jan 1 - Unpasteurized milk producer fights Fraser Health shut-down order

Jan 1 - Bright outlook for Scotland’s food and drink industry