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A Loom with a View The U.S. organic cotton industry has a tough row to hoe		20 Nov 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections Pursuing its goal of world destruction (mwahaha!), the U.S. won approval to continue using and making a pesticide banned under an international ozone treaty. The decision, which countered the recommendation of the treaty's technical committee, allows a 5,900-ton methyl bromide exemption in 2008 -- ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain		22 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain The U.S. government admitted last week that its commercial supply of long-grain rice has been contaminated by an illegal, untested, genetically modified strain with the warm-and-fuzzy name of LLRICE 601. The European Union, the biggest importer of U.S. long-grain rice, may decide to delay or ban imports; Japan ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Japan, news, United States (all these topics)

Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply		10 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply With demand for organic food soaring in the U.S. and U.K., manufacturers of organic products are struggling to find adequate supplies of organic ingredients and are increasingly looking and buying abroad. While exporters like Australia welcome the trend, it creates a dilemma for many organic enthusiasts, who also tend to support lo ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Lather, Prince, Repeat Prince Charles frets over climate change, promotes organic foods		31 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Lather, Prince, Repeat Prince Charles frets over climate change, promotes organic foods Britain's Prince Charles is getting dreadfully worried about climate change. In an interview with the BBC last week, he called it the "greatest challenge" to face humanity. And on CBS's 60 Minutes last night, he said, "You know, if you look at the latest figures on clima ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, news, San Francisco, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Arsenic and Old Rice Arsenic levels in U.S. rice could pose health risk		03 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Arsenic and Old Rice Arsenic levels in U.S. rice could pose health risk U.S.-grown rice contains an average of 1.4 to 5 times the amount of arsenic found in rice from Europe, India, or Bangladesh. According to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, people consuming American rice at a "subsistence level" -- about one pound of dry rice a day -- may get a dose of ars ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S.		19 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S. With the U.S. organics industry going mainstream, a coterie of anti-The-Man farmers are getting out, eschewing federally regulated "organic" certification and creating terms and systems of their own to address eco-friendly agricultural practices not covered by the federal regs. The Food Alliance has created a cer ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United States (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products Hemp may be the new soy. Recently, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency quietly ended its attempts to ban hemp oil and sterilized industrial hemp seed in food products. (Yes, these products are taken from the Cannabis plant, but no, they won't even get your little brother high.) "It's a victory [for the hemp industry]," says food s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States (all these topics)

Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly A new study by David Pimentel in the journal BioScience backs its call for greater agricultural water conservation with some disturbing statistics. Worldwide, agriculture uses some 70 percent of the freshwater supply. The ginormous Ogallala aquifer, which supplies water to a fifth of all irrigated la ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties Ayurvedic herbal supplements imported from South Asia may contain lead, mercury, and arsenic, sometimes at levels high enough to cause serious health problems, including vomiting, convulsions, and seizures. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 20 percent of the remedies purchased in the U.S. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S.		01 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S. Here's some unsettling food news: Perchlorate, an explosive component of rocket fuel, was found in about 90 percent of lettuce samples and 97 percent of milk samples from around the U.S. tested by the Food and Drug Administration. Health officials said the levels of contamination found shouldn' ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing Have you ever felt chafed by the inconvenience of having to go one place for your bulk bulgur wheat and another for your Guatemalan organic cotton poncho? Well we've got good news: From here on in you can point your Lexus SUV in one direction only, to organic grocer Whole Foods. The retailer is ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics)

A Bunch of Debunk Debate Over Benefits of Organic Food Heats Up		08 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
A Bunch of Debunk Debate Over Benefits of Organic Food Heats Up The market for organic food is exploding, and as any star of teen movies can tell you, with success comes backlash. Some of the organic-food industry's more enthusiastic backers have made lofty claims about the health benefits the foods confer, and now some scientists (and some industry-backed "scientists") are tossing cold water on the love-fest. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Maple Encyclical On organic syrup	Umbra Fisk	30 Aug 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I saw at the store there is "organic" maple syrup. Is there really a difference between organic and non-organic maple syrup? Do conventional farms spray the trees with massive amounts of pesticides? I don't have much money (poor college student) so I was just trying to buy organic for things like apples and milk, which I've heard should only be bought in organic form. Brianna Farmington Hills, Mich. Dearest Briann ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, organic food, United States (all these topics)

Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers The Bush administration's proposal to revamp (critics say gut) the Clinton-era Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction on some 60 million acres of federal forestland, is finding opposition in some odd places. Owners of tree farms, not typically considered a natural ally of greens, are backing the Sierra Club and other enviro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Organic: Friend or Faux? USDA Dilutes Meaning of 'Organic' Label		18 May 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Good Label Manners Not all 'eco-labels' are created equal	Matthew L. Miller	16 Mar 2004	Soapbox
Not all "eco-labels" are created equal By Matthew L. Miller 16 Mar 2004 "What's in a name?" asks Shakespeare. Conscientious food consumers are beginning to realize that the answer too often is, "Not much." Eggsellent. Shoppers increasingly are willing to pay more for food produced in a way that protects human health, water, wildlife, rural communities, and farm workers. And this is not lost on marketers. Many grocery packages today include "e ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics)

GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA Most ordinary crop seeds in the U.S. are contaminated with strands of genetically modified DNA, and unless federal regulations and farm practices are tightened considerably, the entire U.S. food supply will soon contain GM elements, says a report released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scien ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, health, United States (all these topics)

Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer Speaking of genetic drift: The Canadian Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday in a case that has become a cause celebre for both opponents and fans of agricultural biotechnology. Agro-giant Monsanto Co. sued Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser when its patented biotech canola was found growing in his ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef What's bad news for most ranchers may be great news for growers and purveyors of organic and natural-fed beef. In the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., folks who still like to chomp on a nice, juicy steak are increasingly seeking out beef that's been raised the old-fashioned way. To earn the organi ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, ranching, United States (all these topics)

Strawberry Yields Forever U.S. Could Endanger Ozone Layer with Push for Pesticide Use		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Strawberry Yields Forever U.S. Could Endanger Ozone Layer with Push for Pesticide Use In pushing for continued use of a controversial pesticide, the Bush administration could undermine international efforts to protect the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol, a 1987 treaty ratified by the U.S. and other industrialized nations, calls for phasing out the ozone-depleting pesticide ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, ozone, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Unsafe at Any Seed? A new consumer revolution could change the way we label food		30 Oct 2003	The Gist
There's a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign going on in New York City right now regarding smoking in public places. The ads feature slogans like, "If they ban smoking in airports, people will never fly again," and "If they ban smoking in bathrooms, people will never gossip again." I thought of this campaign when I stumbled across a Reuters article on Tuesday describing opposition to a new l ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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