Protectionist policies and shortage of workers could see problems start within weeks.
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Protectionist policies and shortage of workers could see problems start within weeks.
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While restaurants and other small businesses throughout the country are temporarily closing, community-supported agriculture subscriptions or one-off box deliveries of local food are skyrocketing in demand.
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Credit Suisse is predicting that U.S. packaged food companies’ retail sales will grow by an average of 15% to 30% from March to May 2020.
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GrubMarket has acquired Boston Organics, an online farm-to-table grocery delivery service in Massachusetts.
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Famous farmer and activist Joel Salatin gets blowback for declaring that he wants Covid-19.
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The World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) program connects volunteers to work alongside farmers across the world, but Covid-19 social distancing and isolation have presented new challenges.
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Loha, an organic food distributor in China, hopes to raise $26M in its IPO on the Nasdaq.
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The test comes as coronavirus-concerned customers seek options to in-store grocery shopping.
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Hard-hit e-commerce players saw a slight reprieve in orders last week, but an expected resurgence in sales in the coming weeks will require brands to rethink their online strategy once again.
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Internal documents describe how to profit from farmer losses and the desire to oppose some independent testing.
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The Organic Consumers Association has sued Happy Egg Co. for false, deceptive and misleading advertising claims related to the use of the term “pasture-raised.”
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Still feeling the sting of Expo West being canceled, many natural and organic brands have no choice but to emphasize direct-to-consumer strategies.
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Some retailers have temporarily increased wages or offered bonuses, but Whole Foods, Instacart and Amazon workers have planned walkouts this week to demand safer working conditions.
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A few key trends are the microbiome, neurocosmetics and personalization.
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According to the Soil Association, sales of organic eggs grew by more than 12% last year.
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The people who put food on our table don’t get to work from home.
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The plan would green-light growing GMOs on dozens of refuges throughout the Southeast.
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Ignoring science to side with Monsanto/Bayer, the EPA has repeatedly failed to assess glyphosate’s impacts on public health and endangered species.
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Pennsylvania’s Vitality Grants aim to make the state Number 1 in organics.
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A visual look at which countries have it the worst, as experts call for a worldwide phaseout of this toxic herbicide.
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USDA-regulated food products will be able to carry the “healthy” label claim if their fat profile contains predominantly mono and polyunsaturated fats or a serving has at least 10% of the government-set daily value of potassium or vitamin D.
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The EWG report also found that 99% of non-organic raisins are tainted with at least two chemicals.
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Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit asserts that the FDA used the wrong legal standard when it reviewed and approved GE-heme to be used in raw Impossible Burgers sold in grocery stores.
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The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico shows a decrease of 53% from last year’s count and is well below the threshold at which government scientists predict the migration could collapse.
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