Many of the 20,000 species pollinate 85% of food crops and fruits around the world — everything from garlic and grapefruits to coffee and kale.
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Many of the 20,000 species pollinate 85% of food crops and fruits around the world — everything from garlic and grapefruits to coffee and kale.
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Fortunately, there has been fierce pushback from retailers in regard to this GE-salmon.
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Founded in 1989, the Canadian producer of fruit spreads, jams and preserves has sold a majority stake to the Chicago-based private equity firm.
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The New York-based startup announced it has raised a new round of funding led by Contour Venture Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital and Danone Manifesto Ventures.
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A South Dakota man bought about $46 million worth of non-organic seed, sold it as organic for about $71 million and used the profits to buy a yacht, Florida home, jewelry, expensive vehicles and land, among other things.
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Demand for seeds is sky high once again, and many say this signals a longer-term shift towards growing food at home.
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Foxtrot announces Series B funding to expand its chain of upscale convenience stores.
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The iconic chocolate cups are going organic, which has gotten a mixed reaction on social media.
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Fortunately, these efforts do not seem to be working.
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The organic market in the UK is now worth £2.79 billion, having just experienced its highest year-on-year growth rate since 2005.
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The San Francisco-based company will use the funding to fuel its expansion into Southern California by this fall — a move that will triple the size of its current market.
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The prospect that many fruits and vegetables will soon be gene-edited is a terrifying one.
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Internal testing done by Gerber, Beech-Nut, Nurture, Inc. (Happy Baby) and Hain Celestial (Earth’s Best) showed levels of heavy metals far above limits set for bottled water by the FDA and the EPA, congressional investigators found. Class action lawsuits have since been filed.
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According to new research from IRI, smaller manufacturers did especially well in the alcohol, frozen food and center-store food categories.
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AquaBounty says its first bioengineered salmon will be harvested in March, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to buy.
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The U.S. Organic Grain Initiative is designed to transition 50,000 acres of corn and soy to organic, which help fill a growing gap in domestic organic animal feed.
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Even as farm workers alleged in lawsuits that chlorpyrifos had made them sick, Trump’s EPA refused to ban it.
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Small farmers in India face perilous changes in the marketplace, which will favor large-scale farming and more corporate control — and the environmental consequences that come along with that.
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While the Organic Trade Association is putting its faith in USDA Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack, the Center for Food Safety has outlined 7 reasons why he should not be confirmed.
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From the biggest organic farmer cooperative in the United States to an independent organic farmer in southeast Minnesota, the pandemic brought big business.
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Co-founded by Torie Burke and Howard Slatkin in 2012, Torie & Howard has been purchased by American Licorice.
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Now, a national full-service grocer, Imperfect Foods just closed a $95M Series D financing from Insight Partners and Northwest Venture Partners.
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The top three categories with the largest sales increases were packaged salads (15.4%), berries (strawberries, blueberries and raspberries) at 12.2%, and apples (11.1%).
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The Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit is based on the FDA failing to demand the required safety tests and that its approval was not based on “convincing evidence.”
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