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Welcome Back, Kosher Popularity of 'eco-kosher' diet growing in U.S.		10 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Welcome Back, Kosher Popularity of "eco-kosher" diet growing in U.S. Eco-food awareness has undeniably seeped into the mainstream, and religious communities are no exception. More and more, a low-impact diet is seen not just as a matter of health or ethics, but as a spiritual obligation. As evidence, look no further than the quickly growing "eco-kosher" mo ...
Topics: food, green living, local food, news, organic food, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Who Needs Aspirin? Study finds organic tomatoes contain more heart-healthy antioxidants		06 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Who Needs Aspirin? Study finds organic tomatoes contain more heart-healthy antioxidants Could organic fruits and veggies be better for you? A study of samples collected over 10 years found that organic tomatoes contained far higher levels of flavonoids -- antioxidants that reduce high blood pressure and have also been linked with reduced rates of some cancers and dementia -- than conven ...
Topics: agriculture, food, health, news, organic food, scientific research (all these topics)

Putting the Source Before the Cart Regional grocery chains seek 'organic retailer' certification		03 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Putting the Source Before the Cart Regional grocery chains seek "organic retailer" certification In some mainstream grocery stores, organic options are shunted to the side, put in a sort of "Food for Freaks" section where only the bravest shoppers dare to tread. But increasingly, regional chains are getting certified as "organic retailers" ...
Topics: business, food, green living, greening biz operations, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

About that organic broccoli from China Helping U.S. farmers transition to organic	Samuel Fromartz	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Organic food has take criticism lately, because a portion is flowing from overseas. (All those food miles, all that lost support for American farmers.) Well, there's a reason that trend is underway: Not enough American farms are growing organic crops and fewer still are converting, so demand is exceeding supply. With the Farm Bill, attempts are underway to address that problem. The organic farming community is seeking a few tender morsels off the Congressional table ...
Topics: agriculture, food, legislation, organic food (all these topics)

Dumping the sour 'organic' milk Dairy farmers' organic practices called into question	Samuel Fromartz	10 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Regulation might not be the best way to create greener markets, but the right sort of regulations enforced the right way can work. That's a lesson in the organic market, which witnessed a first this week: a mega-organic dairy with 10,000 cows (3,500 'organic'), which was clearly skirting regulations, was suspended by a certifier and no longer allowed to sell 'organic' milk.I blogged on this development over at Chews Wise, and only bring it up here because the orga ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Yuppy chow, food miles, and labels Interesting juxtaposition of stories	JMG	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Interesting juxtaposition of stories: First, an essay on what has become of organics, as it turns into what Fromartz calls 'Organic, Inc.' Then, Energy Bulletin links to a story suggesting that some Brits might deny the organic label to food flown in from abroad. And, of course, there's the post right here on Gristmill about labeling as an attempt to help consumers understand the effect of their purchases. The issue boils down to the fact that our prices don't help con ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food, organic food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Organic lite 'Organic' beer with conventional hops, and other USDA wishes	Tom Philpott	18 May 2007	Gristmill
It's happening again -- the USDA is scheming to water down organic standards for key products. This time, the targets are that sacred duo, beer and sausage. Beer is composed essentially of two agricultural products: barley and hops. If the USDA gets its way, makers of 'organic' beer will be able to use conventionally grown hops. And sausage is made up essentially of ground meat stuffed into casing made of animal intestines. The USDA would like manufacturers to ...
Topics: greenwashing, Department of Agriculture, business, food, agriculture, organic food (all these topics)

Consumers Say They'll Stick With Coke Organic milk to flood U.S. market, Stonyfield yogurt hits Europe		14 May 2007	Daily Grist
Consumers Say They'll Stick With Coke Organic milk to flood U.S. market, Stonyfield yogurt hits Europe Batten down the hatches: organic milk is about to flood the U.S. A combination of consumer demand and changing practices -- a ruling last year required organic dairy farmers to switch to feeding moo-cows 100 percent organic grain instead of 80 percent organic grain -- means a "wall of milk" will ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

The sweet smell of an organic coffee victory It's safe, for now	Samuel Fromartz	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Organic coffee is safe, for now. In a victory for organic farmers in the developing world and organic coffee drinkers here, the USDA's National Organic Program has backed down and said that there will be no immediate change in the way these farmers are certified. The NOP had quietly announced in March that it was changing certification procedures for these farms, meaning that their future as organic farmers was in jeopardy. The change would have increased costs s ...
Topics: ag policy, politics, agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Feeding the world sustainably	Gar Lipow	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) If heaven was a pie it would be cherry Cool and sweet and heavy on your tongue And just one bite would satisfy your hunger And there'd always be enough for everyone -- Gretchen Peters, 'If Heaven' Agriculture for food and fiber represents another significant category of environmental impact. Before we worry about how to farm, we should consider how much agriculture we need. If you read the technical news, when this subject ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics)

Coffee roasters perk up on USDA ruling Sign a petition	Samuel Fromartz	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The issue regarding certification of organic farmers in the Third World continues to gain steam. Equal Exchange, the organic and fair trade coffee group, has a petition drive (scroll to bottom of page) to block the USDA decision that would decertify organic 'grower groups' such as coffee co-ops. Grist had a spirited discussion on this previously.A comment from Equal Exchange over at Chews Wisely states: We at Equal Exchange are working with others in the National O ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

An organic House ... or at least one representative	Samuel Fromartz	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The House of Representatives held its first Ag committee hearing ever on organic agriculture today. I attended the hearing and found out Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the California Democrat who chairs of the House subcommittee on horticulture and organic agriculture, belongs to an organic CSA! For a full report, see the post on Chews Wise.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's organic bust And another way forward.	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On April Fool's Day, Grist ran a fake bit on how Wal-Mart had 'pulled the plug' on much-ballyhooed green initiatives, including its plan to to become the nation's number-one organic grocer. 'In the end, our customers value low prices more than sustainability, and at Wal-Mart, we listen to our customers,' Wal-Mart's CEO (fictionally) said. As so often happens these days, fact may be leaping ahead of satire. BusinessWeek reported today that the retail behemoth ...
Topics: business, food, greenwashing, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Java justice Implications of the last organic latte	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Fair Trade producers in Mexico depend heavily on organic certification to reap price premiums for both labels, and will be hurt on more than one front by the recently released USDA rule requiring them to change certification practices, researchers say. In a recent article in Salon, later followed by a post on Gristmill, Samuel Fromartz detailed the consequences of a USDA ruling that would force a radical change in the way grower groups in the global South ce ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard		09 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard Hold onto your latte: News is seeping out about a change at the U.S. Department of Agriculture that could affect the cost and availability of organic products from developing countries, including bananas, spices, sugar, and coffee. Normally, a farm must undergo an annual inspection to get certified. But for years, co ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news, organic food (all these topics)

The last organic latte Organic coffee deep-sixed	Samuel Fromartz	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Due a recent decision over at the USDA's National Organic Program, organic coffee, in the U.S. at least, may be a thing of the past. I wrote about this decision on Salon and did not shout it out to Gristies right away (mea culpa), but I am now. The USDA decision, which affects the way small farmer cooperatives in the Third World are certified, will also dry up supplies of organic cocoa and curtail bananas. So eat your organic Dagoba bars now while they're still ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Equal opportunity organic Sustainable food meets social justice	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Grassroots organic is alive and well, even in the concrete jungles of New Haven and Boston. Today I spent an hour and a half at a talk called 'Food Policy: Addressing Social Justice in the Sustainable and Local Food Movements.' The event's keynote speakers were two women who work for urban sustainable food initiatives. One of the organizations, CitySeed, is located in New Haven, Conn. At the talk, CitySeed's executive director, Jennifer McTiernan, spoke about ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, green living, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Filling Their Sales If organic food is so popular, why are so few farms transitioning their land?	Tom Philpott	22 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
On a recent trip to Austin, I visited the flagship Whole Foods -- a vast space where people gather en masse to render financial sacrifice to that new god, organic food. From the depths of the parking lot, as you make your way up to the store, you're urged again and again by a sign that simply says, "Love where you shop." From the doe-eyed look of the supplicants ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, organic food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Fair trade for a fortnight Could you do it?	Sarah van Schagen	28 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Could you limit your food and bev choices to all organic or all fair trade? Or both? What would be left on your plate and (eek!) in your wallet? Two men (one a Seattle-based reporter and one a U.K.-based nonprofit organizer) recently took on food-related challenges to answer those very questions and bring attention to the (un)availability of organic and fair-trade options.Michael Stusser's month-long organic binge started as a Supersize Me-style experiment; in t ...
Topics: food, organic food (all these topics)

Ask a Brokeass: The first real column! Popping your (organic) cherry	Kate Sheppard	06 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Hello again, fair, broke readers. Sorry to tease you with my column intro and then leave you hungering for more for all these weeks. Your resident brokeass took an unexpected journey to Utah to steal swag from well-heeled, earth-friendly-ish corporations and stalk eco-savvy celebs -- and then returned and promptly got sick. So, the long-awaited second column, in which I actually answer some of your questions: Dear Brokeass, I'd love it if you could help clarify w ...
Topics: consumerism, food, local food, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Meet the Lunch Lady Maverick chef Ann Cooper aims to spark a nationwide school-lunch revolution	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2007	Victual Reality
Even the most intractable pathology can disappear, sometimes relatively quickly. A sign above a water fountain proclaiming "no coloreds" would cause any American to flinch today. Just half a century ago throughout the South, such abominations formed a banal part of the built landscape. Ann Cooper puts a fresh spin on school lunches. Photo: Chronicle/Craig Lee I go ...
Topics: education, food, local food, organic food, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Poor Taste Why The Economist's recent assault on 'ethical food' missed the mark	Tom Philpott	03 Jan 2007	Victual Reality
Why The Economist's recent assault on "ethical food" missed the mark By Tom Philpott 03 Jan 2007 Last month, the influential British newsweekly The Economist took the measure of the sustainable-food movement and found it wanting. "There are good reasons to doubt the claims made about three of the most popular varieties of 'ethical food': organic food, fair-trade food, and local food," the journal declared, and proceeded to subject each to withering analysis. Do ...
Topics: agriculture, business, consumerism, farmers markets, food, green living, local food, organic food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

It ain't natural But it could be organic	Kate Sheppard	29 Nov 2006	Gristmill
It's a good question, really: When is a fish really organic? The New York Times mulled this question in the business section yesterday. If the organic label hinges upon a vegetative diet and not using antibiotics or growth hormones, then farmed fish can be organic. But what's natural about confining thousands of fish in nets? And what's unnatural about carnivorous fish like salmon that feed upon other fish born in the wild?Ponders the Times:[A] proposed guideline at ...
Topics: aquaculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

McKibben on 'green' Wal-Mart Wal-Mart may sell organic, but it also thrives on ruined downtowns and long freight hauls.	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Gristmill
I've always been a bit appalled by the polite applause with which some enviros greet Wal-Mart's 'green' initiatives. Seems to me that the only way the company could really 'go green' would be to stop selling cheap plastic crap shipped in from halfway around the world in vast suburban megastores. In other words, completely change it's business model -- not, say, adopt 'green' building techniques for its appalling superstores, or haul mass-produced 'organic' food from Cal ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart accused of mislabeling items as organic Watchdog group files complaint with USDA	Lisa Hymas	15 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Wal-Mart has been mislabeling non-organic food items as organic, charges the Cornucopia Institute in a complaint filed with the USDA. Reports the AP: Mark Kastel, co-director of the nonprofit institute, said he and other researchers visited at least a dozen Wal-Mart stores in four states throughout the Midwest to see how organic items were selling. But they found problems, he said, such as dairy coolers stocked with regular yogurt -- by brands that also make organic var ...
Topics: food, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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