Articles from January 2011
Posted by Barry on January 27, 2011
On Thursday, the Obama administration showed whose side it is on in the battle between proponents of sustainable, organic agriculture and the big businesses that profit from conventional, chemical agriculture. Big Ag won. It wasn’t even close. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 26, 2011
Greener Pastures: Study Shows Organic Milk More Healthful than Conventional A recent study published in the Journal of Dairy Science by a group of British scientists showed that organic milk had higher percentages of heart-healthy fatty acids than the regular stuff. Gillian Butler of Newcastle University, who led the study, told Sustainable Food [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 21, 2011
I represent Arysta LifeScience, the manufacturer of methyl iodide, which you recently discussed in an article on your blog and contributed to The Atlantic. I’m writing to address glaring factual errors in the piece that should be corrected. I look forward to hearing from you and learning how these issues can be resolved in the [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 18, 2011
In the days before leaving office, the administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger planted a chemical time bomb in California strawberry fields that, if not defused, could cause cancer, thyroid toxicity, permanent neurological damage, and miscarriages, according to 54 distinguished chemists, including five Nobel laureates. The chemical in question is called methyl iodide (or iodomethane) and [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 14, 2011
Hold the GMOs! When it comes to the federal government’s eagerness to advance the private GMO agenda of Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and other agribusinesses, nothing is sacred—not even the pope. While the media hubbub might have focused on issues related to the war in Afghanistan and snarky American opinions of various world leaders, the [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 11, 2011
The faithful newshound has been snoozing by the stove these last several weeks while Estabrook was locked away in his office trying to get a book off to the publisher. The hound has now shaken himself awake. He’s hot on the trail again and has dragged home a few heartening stories. Let’s kick off 2011 [...]
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Posted by Barry on January 10, 2011
If you want to understand the Obama administration’s cynical, schizophrenic, attitude toward agricultural issues, consider Tom Stearns. He is the founder and president of High Mowing Seeds, a small Vermont company that sells 100 percent organic fruit and vegetable seeds, primarily to commercial growers. The seeds sown in the First Lady’s chemical-free White House garden [...]
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