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(Read more)An article from Grist discusses the recent news headlines over whether or not organic foods are more nutritious than conventional foods. These headlines are based on a Stanford University meta-analysis that combined data from 237 studies; however, this study does not tell the whole story of the benefits of organic. Click here to view this [...]
(Read more)Here, you will see the logic of the modern industrial food system in its rawest form — a logic of prioritizing profit over human and environmental welfare. Alot has changed in the 400 years since the Elmina Fort was built, but this principle has not gone away. The logic of the plantation is the logic [...]
(Read more)A recent NY Times article addresses organic purists concerns with the influence that big companies have on the organic food industry.
(Read more)Nick Maravell has farmed the land on Brickyard Rd. in Potomac for 30 years. He has farmed it organically and sustainably, benefiting the local community, consumers and other farmers in the county, and our environment, including the Chesapeake Bay. He has farmed so well that in September of 2010, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack [...]
(Read more)One of the great flaws in current food systems is that despite significant progress in development and food production hundreds of millions of people are hungry because they lack the means to produce or purchase the food they need for a healthy and productive life, according to FAO’s report.
(Read more)It’s no secret agribusiness tout that the solution to world hunger is to increase GMO food production. Yet 17.2 million households – or 14.5 percent of households (approximately one in seven) – were food insecure in 2010, the highest number ever recorded in the United States (Coleman-Jensen 2011, p. v.). Is big ag really the [...]
(Read more)Having marginalized the Future Farmers of America, Agri-Business turned their experience to the Land Grant Colleges to ensure their profits and steer the conversation of the knowledge base of food and forage production. Jill Richardson outlines the most recent effect Big-Ag has on agricultural research – and on farmer livelihoods and consumer choice. Read article.
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