While it’s been proven time and time again that “conventional” agriculture, the byproduct of the post-World War II era and the chemicals that remained, causes serious harm, most people don’t realize just how bad it’s gotten. Jim Cochran, a strawberry farmer outside of Santa Cruz, California, found [...]
Read Full Article →
In the battle of “conventional” agriculture vs. organic, a clear winner is emerging: organic food sales are skyrocketing, and interest in organic farming is rising dramatically, especially among the youth. But while the debate between organic and conventional gets all the headlines, one particular style of farming that may hold [...]
Read Full Article →
Growing your own food is not only the best way to save money, it’s also the best way to give your family healthy organic produce that you can really trust. With organic standards being watered all the time thanks to the USDA’s negligence and the superior quality of food that’s [...]
Read Full Article →
Scifest Africa is South Africa’s National Science Festival, established in 1996 in order “to promote the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and innovation.” While the Monsanto Company would like to believe that anyone who opposes their genetically modified seeds, chemicals and crops are “impeding science,” [...]
Read Full Article →
Even as United States consumers begin demanding more and more organic foods, organic farmers themselves are struggling with the realities of life in a system that seems set up for genetically modified crops to thrive. Subsidies for corn and soybeans are the norm here, and while farmers who wish to [...]
Read Full Article →
The system is far from perfect, but the USDA has strict guidelines for most things organic, including animals raised for food like cows and chickens. In order to be certified organic and to earn the famous USDA green-and-white seal, the animals must be given a diet of organic feed, [...]
Read Full Article →
The explosion of organic food sales has left many people with one important question: where exactly is all this new food coming from, anyway? Short of deceiving customers, it seems that GMO farmers are going to have a lot of extra product laying around in the coming years if [...]
Read Full Article →
Among the new crop of organic food companies, few have been as successful as Applegate Farms, LLC, producer of organic and natural meats. The company, based out of Bridgewater, New Jersey, recently announced that it would be switching to entirely non-GMO feed for its animals, but now some activists [...]
Read Full Article →
The sales of organic products in the United States are skyrocketing, as more and more people seek to avoid synthetic pesticides and genetically engineered foods. But despite the amazing progress that’s been made, there are many areas in the United States where organic food is either extremely overpriced, hard [...]
Read Full Article →
Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and creative ways across the world. Genetically modified organisms have been foisted upon countries ranging from Haiti to Iraq and everywhere in between, and now farmers in [...]
Read Full Article →
