A just-released joint USDA/FDA/EPA website about GMO regulations does not clear up the confusion about GMO-labeling or gene-edited foods.
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A just-released joint USDA/FDA/EPA website about GMO regulations does not clear up the confusion about GMO-labeling or gene-edited foods.
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Put into effect on January 1st, pesticide-free zones in France have angered winegrowers while civil society still considers them insufficient.
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The USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard — which somewhat labels GMO foods — began on January 1st.
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A final rule published by the USDA now requires the use of certified organic flavors in certified organic products when they are commercially available.
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While the USDA might characterize its new rule to combat fraud as “game-changing,” others would classify it as “long overdue.”
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A profile of Randy Constant, an organic farmer who masterminded one of the biggest and longest-running frauds in the history of American agriculture.
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With Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete Buttigieg having missed last month’s presidential forum in Iowa, the two candidates just sent in their positions on organic and regenerative agriculture.
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Though not an organic brand, Quorn is introducing something that will sure to be followed by companies in our industry — carbon labels.
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Purity Organic has acquired Dunn’s River Brands, an Austin, Texas-based management company that owns iced tea brands Sweet Leaf and Tradewinds.
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As Bayer is bogged down in lawsuits, a different but highly toxic herbicide from Corteva is making headway with farmers.
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As the increase in subsidies from the European Union began to increase in 2017, so did the consumption of organic milk in schools.
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A new study out of Texas A&M confirms that insects present in the fields of organic farms cause a stress response in the plant, which increases antioxidant compounds.
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Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019 — more than the final cost of bailing out the auto industry during the financial crisis of 2008 — and Congress had nothing to do with it.
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While the Amazon rainforest burns to make room for monoculture crops, Hawaii is betting the farm on agroforestry.
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Women in leadership is a proven benefit for businesses of all sizes, but companies in the natural products industry often fail to promote women to executive positions.
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Amid muddled certification processes and questions of affordability, India’s organic food startups struggle to earn consumers’ trust.
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As of today, only about 10% of the cropland is Bhutan is certified organic — a long way to go to reach its stated goal of 100%.
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In Kenya, genetically-engineered cotton seeds designed to resist African bollworm, have officially been approved for commercial planting.
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The industry giant now offers frozen chicken, beef, pork, and lamb through an e-commerce platform.
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According to an announcement by the International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant Industry has stated that it has found GMO golden rice to be “as safe as conventional rice” — even though no animal feeding studies have been released to the public that could attest to this.
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Global Animal Partnership (G.A.P.), North America’s most comprehensive farm animal welfare standards program, welcomes its first beef supplier in South America: Range Patagonian Grass-Fed Beef.
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The fruit’s global surge in popularity has fueled exports and attracted violent cartels to the trade in ‘green gold’.
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Organic Valley was fined $26,000 because one of its producers dumped milk products into a tributary, which turned the creek milky white for three-quarters of a mile.
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A new blockchain pilot project offers a physical and digital trail of organic cotton, making traceability, transparency and reliability inevitable.
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