With an initial investment of $20M, the 4,000-acre organic farming city will be an integrated agricultural, industrial, urban and tourist community, and a total of 100 acres will be allocated to the production of spirulina.
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Beyond Pesticides filed another lawsuit against a company alleged to be mislabeling CBD products as organic.
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The LA-based private equity firm has taken a stake in the vitamin and supplement brand MaryRuth Organics.
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While glyphosate gets most of the headlines, the super-toxic dicamba is causing massive problems as well.
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Plant-based dairy brand Miyoko’s Creamery has raised $52m in a Series C round led by PowerPlant Partners.
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Under former Secretary Sonny Perdue, the USDA to eliminated most genetic engineering oversight, including future GE crops, trees and grasses. Conservationists and farmers have just sued to reverse this dangerous and reckless policy.
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It appears that organic brands such as Pukka and Tazo will soon be divested from Unilever, either through an IPO, partnership or sale.
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Great story about how these two organic companies are making a very significant impact in Ethiopia.
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Greenpeace Philippines strongly denounced the approval of GMO ‘Golden Rice’ for commercial production, a crop that faced massive opposition from Filipino farmers, scientists, consumers, health advocates and environmental groups.
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Mexican baking giant Grupo Bimbo has acquired Emmy’s Organics, a producer of ultra-premium organic cookies.
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In a victory for consumers, advocates, and the environment, Monsanto-Bayer today announced it will end the sales of its glyphosate-based herbicides — including its flagship product, Roundup — in the U.S. residential lawn and garden market in 2023.
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California-based Urban Remedy will use the funds to fuel one particular new fresh food platform: dinner, which will be launching in Q4 2021 with three to five different ready-to-eat noodle and grain-based bowls.
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The chain of upscale, delivery-focused corner stores and cafés, which currently operates 12 stores, will soon be coming to New York City, Austin, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles and Houston.
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Farmers and advocacy groups are hoping the Biden administration will take action on the 2018 National Organic Standards Board recommendation to close this loophole.
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As climate-smart farming initiatives scale up, experts decry ‘junk agroecology’ — global initiatives they say are cherry-picking sustainable practices, while denying political realities.
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A bill put forward by Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to decriminalize marijuana includes language on CBD that has been welcomed by supplement industry stakeholders.
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Harmful PFAS chemicals are linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, plummeting sperm counts and a range of other serious health problems.
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The organic direct-to-consumer baby & toddler food brand has raised $44m in a Series B round led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from long-standing partner Kairos HQ.
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Very disheartening to know that our tax dollars are being spent to pressure Mexico to reverse its GMO ban.
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A new white paper from the consumer advocacy group OrganicEye profiles the lobbyist-affiliated appointees to the National Organic Standards Board.
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Rumors of Thrive Market’s long-awaited IPO seem to be coming closer to fruition.
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The Minnesota-based supply chain solutions company focused on organic, non-GMO and regenerative food and feed has filed for Chapter 11, which is causing a headache for growers of organic grain.
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Huge congrats to CEO Bob DeBorde — who has taken the brand to unprecedented heights — and to founders Jeff Church, James Brennan and Eric Ethans on the sale of the company to Paine Schwartz Partners. What Suja Organic accomplished is incredibly impressive. Not only did it play a leading role in taking cold-pressed organic juice to the masses, but it thrived in an extremely competitive category. An amazing run so far and much more to come.
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New data from Placer.ai tracking foot traffic at America’s leading food retailers shows that traffic at Whole Foods – while rebounding – remains lower than it was in 2019, while many rival grocers have staged a stronger recovery.
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