Clif Bar’s CLIF Second Responder Fund, a fund that helps communities recover from natural disasters, will earmark its first $1.5 million to the Butte Humane Society, which was impacted by the California Camp Fire.
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Clif Bar’s CLIF Second Responder Fund, a fund that helps communities recover from natural disasters, will earmark its first $1.5 million to the Butte Humane Society, which was impacted by the California Camp Fire.
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Responding to growing consumer demand for more health-conscious options, Nestlé has introduced Nescafé Gold Organic, its first organic instant coffee product in the UK.
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Many French winemakers want to wean themselves off the toxic herbicide, but they need help from the government in order to accelerate this transition.
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By the end of this year, all 365 stores will be converted into regular Whole Foods stores.
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Organic and natural cottage cheese brand Good Culture has secured an $8M round of funding led by CAVU Venture Partners with participation from 301 Inc. and Almanac Insights.
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Back to the Roots, an organic food & gardening company, closed a $3M Series C led by Central Garden & Pet and Blue Scorpion Investments.
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A former Amazon shipping and packaging manager started The Wally Shop, which delivers organic and local produce and bulk ingredients — with zero waste.
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A bill has been introduced into the California legislature that would aim to allow school districts to apply for up to 15 cents of additional funding on every school meal in order to buy certified organic foods grown in the state.
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Another day, another story of widespread glyphosate contamination. This time, U.S. Pirg found the toxic weedkiller in 19 out of 20 beer and wine brands tested, including organic ones.
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Sustain Natural, a natural/organic sexual and reproductive wellness brand started by Meika Hollender, has sold a majority stake in the company to Combe.
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SunOpta has sold its specialty and organic soy and corn business to Pipeline Foods for $66.5M. Tradin Organic, SunOpta’s European-based international sourcing and supply platform, was not part of the sale.
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This use of technology is setting a horrible precedent and does not take into account the EMF damage that the chickens are enduring.
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Years in the making, Organic Valley and Maple Hill have partnered on a national farming initiative defining and unifying grass-fed organic standards across the U.S.
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Prairie Organic Spirits, the country’s leading organic spirits brand, has established the Spirits of Change Fund and will donate 1% of its sales to support the next generation of organic farmers and to help transition more conventional farmland to organic.
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With the production of organic grains very slow to take off in our country, the U.S. Organic Grain Collaboration, in partnership with the Organic Trade Association, released a critical report today looking at the state of organic grain in the United States. It also identifies specific industry solutions to overcome the hurdles.
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After chronicling his consumption for more than a year of foods whose expiration dates had passed, MOM’s Organic Market CEO Scott Nash is calling for the government to change its approach to food-dating regulations.
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After being controlled by Republicans since the GOP took the majority of the House in 2011, the agriculture committee is back squarely in the hands of the Democrats, and here are some of the folks who will be leading it.
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The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which fought for years against GMO-labeling, is now revamping its strategy and leadership in a bid to win back influential members who recently quit.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that in 2018 it issued so-called “emergency” approvals to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide the agency considers “very highly toxic” to bees — on more than 16 million acres of crops known to attract bees.
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An excellent op-ed by Natural Grocers’ Alan Lewis who delivers a much-needed message that many “better for you” products are actually causing real harm to the environment and are not improving the lives of farmers.
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Cannabis giant Tilray has purchased organic and non-GMO hemp brand Manitoba Harvest for $317M and is planning a summer launch of broad spectrum hemp extracts with CBD.
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Monsanto is already facing a slew of lawsuits for causing cancer, but now it is being sued for impacting healthy gut bacteria.
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Organic kombucha brand Rowdy Mermaid has closed on a $3.5M Series A led by KarpReilly, and the company will use a portion of the funds to focus on the food service sector.
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A new peer-reviewed study compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four families across the country on a non-organic and organic diet. The results? Pesticides in their bodies dropped up to 95% within one week on an organic diet.
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