At a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, Cornucopia Institute analyst Mark Kastel said the USDA and FDA inspect only 1 to 2 percent of imported food and that a disproportionate number of serious problems turn up in Chinese exports, including nine of 22 fraudulent organic certificates.
Section archive
Page 3 of 5
Agriculture
Farming, crops and livestock.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Agriculture
Artichokes finding a place in the ‘heart’ of Texas (PR)
MO Produce LLC harvested 12 acres of artichokes near Brownsville in its fifth year growing the crop in the Rio Grande Valley, with advice from Texas A&M's Uvalde center. California still accounts for more than 95 percent of US production, and Texas plantings remain small.
Agriculture
Organic: Food Justice for the 99%
The Cornucopia Institute accuses the agrochemical industry of a media campaign against organic food, pointing to recent Time and New York Times pieces, and counters with research finding more beneficial fats in pastured milk and more antioxidants in organic strawberries.
Agriculture
Exposure to Animal Agriculture Increases Prevalence of Nerve Damage
An analysis of 16,340 Agricultural Health Study participants found beef and dairy farmers reported numbness and weakness, signs of peripheral neuropathy, more often than farmers who do not work with animals. The authors hypothesise exposure to Campylobacter jejuni is behind it.
Agriculture
Pioneer in Sustainable Agriculture Shares his Vision of the Future of Food
Mercola interviews Joel Salatin at his Polyface farm about two competing models of food production: a large-scale mechanistic one and a local, sustainable one. Salatin contrasts asking how to grow a pig faster and cheaper with asking how to make it more expressive of its pigness.
Agriculture
The Tragic Mistake That Now Threatens 1 Out of Every 3 Bites You Eat
The documentary Vanishing of the Bees, free to watch for a limited time, examines Colony Collapse Disorder and points to pesticides such as neonicotinoids and to factory-style beekeeping with artificial feed and insemination.
Agriculture
Researchers: Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure (PR)
Purdue scientists found neonicotinoid insecticides in every sample of dead and dying bees taken from Indiana apiaries, at high concentrations in waste talc exhausted by planting machinery and at low levels in soil, dandelion flowers and corn pollen. They say no single factor explains the losses.
Agriculture
Atrazine harms amphibians and other water animals
An international team revisited evidence that the herbicide atrazine, banned in Europe but heavily used in the United States, disrupts animal reproduction. Professor Van Beasley points to at least 10 studies of male frogs showing sex changes, though the study designs differ widely.
Agriculture
Texas AgriLife Research building better melons (PR)
Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Uvalde are breeding melons for drought tolerance and for traits buyers want, including size, shape, texture and sugar content, and are assessing whether Spanish, Italian and other specialty varieties can be grown commercially in the area.
Agriculture
National Peanut Board Members and Alternates Appointed
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack named five members and five alternates to the National Peanut Board for three-year terms running from Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2014. Producers fund the board through an assessment of one percent of the value of peanuts sold.
Agriculture
50% of Rats Given this Died -- Why is it On Your Dinner Plate?
The first survey of ambient glyphosate found the herbicide and its breakdown product AMPA in 60 to 100 percent of weekly air and rain samples taken over two growing seasons in Mississippi and Iowa, with rain also collected in Indiana. Concentrations in rain exceeded other herbicides.
Agriculture
Chesapeake Bay Pesticides: Some Diminish, Some Persist
USDA chemists sampled air and rain at three Maryland and Delaware sites from 2000 to 2003. Nearly all air samples held lindane and chlordane products, with dieldrin and DDE highest. Some traced to local soils, but most lindane, heptachlor and many chlordanes came from over 60 miles away.
Agriculture
Administration Releases Long Overdue Pesticide Data (PR)
The USDA published its annual pesticide residue analysis four months late without downplaying the findings, after scientists and more than 50,000 EWG supporters objected to the delay. The data now include a two-page 'What Consumers Should Know' document.
Agriculture
When to Plant Foods that Fight Cancer
AICR follows its home-gardening feature with a planting calendar covering broccoli, carrots, peas, tomatoes and more, plus a video from its dietitian. The group recommends filling at least two-thirds of the plate with vegetables, fruit, whole grains and beans.
Agriculture
Monsanto Chemical Shown to Cause Infertility and Super Weeds
Regulators in the US and Canada are formally reviewing the safety of Monsanto's glyphosate while lawsuits proceed and some groups call for a global ban, with critics warning of infertility, cancer, super weeds and changes to plants and soil. Monsanto also awaits FDA approval for omega-3 soybeans.
Agriculture
Factory Farm Egg Production, without Mandated Outdoor Access, Challenged (PR)
The Cornucopia Institute filed a USDA complaint alleging that Herbruck's Poultry Ranch and a supplier to Organic Valley confine organic laying hens indoors, arguing small porches fail the rule requiring year-round outdoor access for all animals.
Agriculture
New video: Where your food comes from
EWG's Losing Ground report, built on Iowa State University research, says soil across Iowa and other Corn Belt states is washing away many times faster than official estimates, carrying fertilizer, pesticides and manure into creeks and drinking water. EWG filmed the erosion for a short video.
Agriculture
United Fresh Opens Application Period for 17th Annual Produce Industry Leadership Program
United Fresh opened applications for the 17th class of its Produce Industry Leadership Program, funded by a DuPont Crop Protection grant. Twelve fellows will spend a year on trips to Central California, Washington D.C., Delaware and Chile, graduating at the 2012 convention in Dallas.
78 stories