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Organic food is pure food. It's safer, more nutritious and free of chemical additives. Organic crops are grown without chemical pesticides or fertilizers and organic livestock are raised without antibiotics, growth hormones or other drugs. Organic food isn't genetically modified or irradiated.
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EVENTS:
Southwest Regional Hispanic Ranchers and Farmers Conf., 4/30 5/3, Endinburg, Texas
Florida Small Farms Conference, 5/2, Deland, Florida
Living Green Expo, 5/ 6-7, St. Paul, Minnesota
North American Summit On Organic Production and Mktg 5/6-9
Read moreNEW DELHI: The benefits of organic cotton seem to clearly outweigh those from Bt Cotton, whose cost of cultivation in Kharif , 2005 was higher by 67 per cent and income lower by at least 37 per cent, says a survey by the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
The study conducted in Andhra Pradesh said the total cost of cultivation of Bt cotton per acre stood at Rs 8,366 while the same for organic cotton was Rs 5,008.
Net income per acre, which is gross income minus total cost of cultivation, on Bt cotton was lower by 37 per cent at Rs 3,551 from the organic cotton, which stood
Read more"This year I'm hearing more of these people who have traditionally been concerned about price saying, 'Have you had your product tested for pesticides?' A year ago these guys didn't care about that," says Ms. Eason, a tall redhead who runs Sunburst Trout Company
Read moreBERKELEY – At 10:30 a.m. today (Monday, April 3), students at University of California, Berkeley's Crossroads dining commons will march into history when they load up their plates with lettuce, tomatoes and vinaigrette dressing. The organic salads they sit down to eat will be the first ever to be prepared in a certified organic kitchen on an American college campus, according to the country's leading organic certifying organization.
By spring 2007, all four of the dining halls managed by Cal Dining, one of the campus food services, will offer certified
Read moreVisit Elayne Belkas’s Danville home any day of the week and you will find the former junior accountant at her stove in a kitchen crisp and clean with the scent of citrus and spice or mint and apricot. A pot will be bubbling near a blotter-sized brick of the product it will become – Elayne’s Garden “Certified Organic Soap.”
The all-natural palm, coconut and olive oils and the combinations of flowers, spices and fruits used by Belkas have been reaping praise from her growing customer base since the company’s inception three years ago. It is the soaps’ label – which boast “made
That could be a Letterman riff but it's for real -- the beer anyway. Anheuser-Busch, whose empire is built on Bud and Bud Light, is test-marketing its first organic beer in the North Bay, Santa Barbara and six other smallish cities around the country.
It's a lager that goes by Wild Hop, not organic Bud, and it's being cold-brewed in at the St. Louis-based company's Fairfield plant. A second organic beer, Stone Mill Pale Ale, is being brewed at Anheuser-Busch's Redhook brewery in Portsmouth, N.H., and will be here shortly.
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This spoof of the Matrix movies details the horrors of dairy factory farms,
through the adventures of Leo the pig and Moopheus the cow. Entertaining, adventurous, and informative, this short animated film by our partner organization Sustainable Table is worth watching.
Check out
http://www.themeatrix2.com
~Audrey Hill
food@fwwatch.org
Food & Water Watch
THE MEATRIX II: Read more
No Use of pesticides: 70.3 percent
Freshness: 68.3 percent
Health and nutrition: 67.1 percent
More than half of those surveyed -- 55 percent -- buy organic to avoid genetically modified foods. More than half believe organic foods are better for their personal health and better for the environment.
SOURCE: Organic Trade Association
Demand for organic outruns supply
BY DEVONA WALKER
Even as organic milk rides a rising wave of consumer popularity, Read more
castigated the wealthy and technologically advanced countries of the world for failing to live up to their responsibility in tackling poverty and environmental degradation on the planet.
"We are concerned at cutbacks in funding for development," he told a major international conference here on biological diversity, which is being attended by more than 4,000 officials, including scientists and conservationists, from around the world.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is seen during a Read more
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