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  • It’s Organic, but Does That Mean It’s Safer? (No!)

    03/04/2009 9:48:38 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 14 replies · 555+ views
    New York Times ^ | March 3, 2009 | Kim Severson and Andrew Martin
    The national outbreak of salmonella in products with peanuts has been particularly unsettling for shoppers []who think organic food is safer. The plants in Texas and Georgia that were sending out contaminated peanut butter and ground peanut products had something else besides rodent infestation, mold and bird droppings. They also had federal organic certification. “Why is organic peanut butter better than Jif?” said Ms. Devlin-Sample, a nurse practitioner from Pelham, N.Y. “I have no idea. If we’re getting salmonella from peanut butter, all bets are off.” Although the rules governing organic food require health inspections and pest-management plans, organic certification...
  • Cheap Hydrogen from Scraps

    02/23/2009 7:00:01 PM PST · by Reaganesque · 22 replies · 935+ views
    MIT Technology Review ^ | 02/23/09 | Nora Schultz
    It sounds almost too good to be true: add a few bugs to food scraps and waste water to generate clean hydrogen fuel. But over the past few years, researchers have been gradually working toward this promising scheme for producing hydrogen.Now, with the help of an unassuming stainless-steel brush, microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) have taken another step forward. The steel brush can be used to replace the expensive platinum normally employed in the electrolysis cell's cathode, slashing costs by more than 80 percent.Hydrogen is an appealing, environmentally friendly fuel because burning it creates only water as a waste product. MECs...
  • Organic food tied to Rat Lungworm disease outbreak

    01/17/2009 11:38:04 AM PST · by AndrewWalden · 36 replies · 1,791+ views
    Hawai`i Free Press ^ | January 17, 2009 | Andrew Walden
    Another case or Rat Lungworm disease has been diagnosed in the Kapoho-Kalapana area of Puna and more unreported cases have been revealed. The outbreak has been tied to organic farming.
  • Don't let claims on honey labels dupe you; If it's made in America, it's likely not organic

    01/02/2009 6:49:24 AM PST · by Daffynition · 76 replies · 2,719+ views
    Seattle P-I ^ | December 30, 2008 | ANDREW SCHNEIDER
    When it comes to sizing up the purity of the honey you buy, you're pretty much on your own. You may be paying more for honey labeled "certified organic" or feel reassured by the "USDA Grade A" seal, but the truth is, there are few federal standards for honey, no government certification and no consequences for making false claims. For American-made honey, the "organic" boast, experts say, is highly suspect. Beekeepers may be doing their part, but honeybees have a foraging range of several miles, exposing them to pesticides, fertilizers and pollutants on their way back to the hive. And...
  • Mood moosic to get cows going (UK Organic milk group wants farmers to moo @ cows to boost output)

    09/21/2008 12:23:01 AM PDT · by Stoat · 22 replies · 696+ views
    The Sun (U.K.) ^ | September 20, 2008 | John Coles
    Mood moosic to get cows going   Calm ... Graham VallisSOUTH WEST NEWS SERVICE   By JOHN COLES Published: 20 Sep 2008     FARMERS are being encouraged to MOO at their cows — to boost milk production. It came after a dairy farmer reported getting six times more milk by mimicking his herd’s sound. Graham Vallis, 48, does meditation-style mooing for five minutes before milking — and said his cows fall into a relaxed state. Now the Federation of Organic Milk Groups is urging its 450 members to do the same. Graham, of Bradninch, Devon, said: “I often...
  • Orthorexia: Obsessing Over Health Food

    09/06/2008 8:02:56 AM PDT · by yorkie · 17 replies · 493+ views
    ABC News ^ | September 5, 2008 | John Stossel and Miguel Sancho
    It's no surprise that a lot of Americans watch what they eat. Counting calories, nutrients and fat grams is practically a national pastime. But what happens when people go over the line, and the pursuit of healthy eating actually becomes unhealthy? For Johnny Righini, a 26-year-old from California, eating a nutritious lunch is a painstaking ritual. "Sometimes it takes days to prepare meals, because I have to sprout things, ferment things," he said. "I am constantly thinking about what I am gonna have for my next meal." Charlotte Andersen, a 29-year-old Minnesota mother of three, says she went through the...
  • Sheryl Crow To Release New Western-Style Jeans Line

    08/10/2008 7:00:44 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 48 replies · 3,953+ views
    All Headline News ^ | August 7, 2008 | Anne Lu
    New York, NY (CNS) - Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow will be releasing her own very "Americana" line of denim jeans and shirts in Dillard's department stores on August 15. The multi-Grammy Award winning artist's clothing line, Bootheel Trading Company, is inspired by western and vintage style. The jeans are designed to be eco-friendly, using only fair-trade cotton and denim. Crow has partnered with Western Glove Works for the affordable fashion line. The most expensive jeans is retailed at $69, and the shirts start at $29. The complete Fall '08 collection will be available nationwide at Dillard's branches and some boutique stores...
  • Organic Food Has No More Nutritional Value Than Food Grown With Pesticides, Study Shows

    08/09/2008 6:28:32 PM PDT · by fightinJAG · 156 replies · 243+ views
    Science Daily ^ | August 9, 2008 | Staff
    ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2008) — New research in the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows there is no evidence to support the argument that organic food is better than food grown with the use of pesticides and chemicals. Many people pay more than a third more for organic food in the belief that it has more nutritional content than food grown with pesticides and chemicals. But the research by Dr Susanne Bügel and colleagues from the Department of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, shows there is no clear...
  • Gastronomic Baloney: Food Choices Can Make You 'Conservative'

    07/23/2008 3:53:18 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 6 replies · 149+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | July 23, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick
    There has been a trend in recent years for liberals to try to rebrand themselves as conservatives. The purpose is to con people into thinking that they somehow uphold traditional values. One of the more laughable of these rebranding attempts has been put forward by one John Schwenkler, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The very title of Schwenkler's Boston Globe article, "Eat Republican," along with the subtitle, "How an organic movement born in Berkeley exemplifies conservative values," sets the tone for the attempted con. Schwenkler leads off by attempting to convince us that someone...
  • Eat Republican

    07/22/2008 4:09:29 PM PDT · by forkinsocket · 12 replies · 186+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | July 20, 2008 | John Schwenkler
    How an organic movement born in Berkeley exemplifies conservative values ALICE WATERS SEEMS at first like an unlikely conservative. A veteran of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement who once cooked a $25,000-a-seat fund-raising dinner for Bill Clinton, she eagerly compares her campaign for "edible schoolyards" - where children grow, prepare, and eat fresh produce - with John F. Kennedy's attempt to improve physical fitness through mandatory exercise. Her dream of organic, locally and sustainably produced food in every school cafeteria, class credit for lunch hour, and required gardening time and cooking classes is as utopian as they come. The name she...
  • Got Milk? WI-based Organic Valley Dips into Factory Farming (Greenies Sell Out, Man!)

    07/01/2008 4:28:37 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 8 replies · 204+ views
    Madistan.com ^ | July 1, 2008 | Mike Ivey
    Over the past 20 years, Wisconsin-based Organic Valley has grown into the nation's largest organic cooperative, carving out a niche selling milk from small dairy farmers who treat their cows like members of the family. So imagine the shock within the organic food world when an industry watchdog group recently discovered Organic Valley quietly has been getting some of its milk from a giant Texas dairying operation with more than 5,000 cows. "Buying milk from this factory farm could potentially be catastrophic to our marketplace reputation," said Darlene Coehoorn, a longtime Organic Valley member from Rosendale, Wis., where she milks...
  • Organic Produce...From China??

    06/26/2008 7:42:29 PM PDT · by JACKRUSSELL · 34 replies · 92+ views
    KPIC 4 Roseburg, Oregon ^ | June 24, 2008 | By Herb Weisbaum
    You buy organic because it's better for you and the environment because the produce is grown without pesticides or other potentially-harmful chemicals. But what if those organic vegetables came from China? Would you serve them to your family? It turns out you may already have. I found packages of frozen organic veggies from China at many local grocery stores, including PCC Natural Markets and Whole Foods. Whole Foods, the country's leader in organics, sells a variety of frozen organic produce from China - peas, spinach, asparagus - under its "365 House" brand. People who buy organic expect something special, but...
  • Shoppers To 'Abandon Organic Food To Cut Bills'

    05/19/2008 7:37:47 PM PDT · by blam · 38 replies · 135+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-20-2008 | Harry Wallop
    Shoppers to 'abandon organic food to cut bills' By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 2:29AM BST 20/05/2008 Middle-class shoppers will be forced to abandon organic and fair trade food as inflation continues to climb, a new report warns. Retailers have not yet reported any fall off in organic food sales Shoppers who have previously been willing to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic meat, or fair trade coffee, could soon ignore ethical concerns in favour of keeping their shopping bills down. The prediction comes from the influential forecasting group, the Ernst & Young ITEM club,...
  • Why The Stink Over China's Organic Food

    05/18/2008 7:40:45 AM PDT · by JACKRUSSELL · 42 replies · 762+ views
    CBS4 Miami ^ | May 6, 2008 | By Liv Davalos
    (MIAMI) -- It used to be that you could only find organc food in specialty health food stores. But that has changed as the organic industry is proving to be big business. Now, China is getting in on the action exporting millions of dollars of organic food to the United States. But in the wake of lead in toys and tainted toothpaste, many consumers are wondering just how organic anything from China can be. Pinecrest Mom Ivy Milian decided to eat only organic foods about 18 years ago and has seen its popularity go mainstream. She usually shops at Wild...
  • Meaningful Work Grows in Texas

    05/08/2008 5:36:57 AM PDT · by Invisigoth · 18 replies · 229+ views
    North Star Writers Group ^ | May 7, 2008 | Candace Talmadge
    By now, the collard greens, kale, chard, peppers and eggplants should be in the ground, along with the carrots and corn. The latest planting season is pretty much over at Barking Cat Farm, a tiny grower in Heath, Texas, which is owned and operated by Laurie Bostic and Kim Martin, two former engineers. “You’d expect two engineers to go into farming about as much as you’d expect a cat to bark,” is their explanation for the name of their thriving micro-business, which sells its organic produce and cut flowers to Dallas restaurants and florists and direct to local consumers. And...
  • The high price of going 'organic' (Goin Green ain't all it's cracked up to be)

    04/27/2008 8:59:32 AM PDT · by tobyhill · 44 replies · 297+ views
    CNN ^ | 4/27/2008 | Parija B. Kavilanz
    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- While many companies are now rushing to "go green," recent surveys show American consumers are getting turned off by the organic hype for three reasons: price, skepticism and confusion. The percentage of consumers who believe organic products are good for them is down to 45%, while those who believe they're good for the environment has fallen to 48%, according to the latest survey from consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail. Both measures stood at a 54% approval rating two years ago. Higher cost of organic products versus mass market alternatives is a primary deterrent to many consumers,...
  • Common Organic Compound Found In Many Household Products May Pose Health Risk To Breast Cells

    04/03/2008 6:04:13 PM PDT · by blam · 28 replies · 109+ views
    Science Daily ^ | 4-3-2008 | California Pacific Medical Center
    Common Organic Compound Found In Many Household Products May Pose Health Risk To Breast CellsBisphenol A, a chemical that leaches into food and beverages from many consumer products, causes normal, non-cancerous human breast cells to express genes characteristic of aggressive breast cancer cells. (Credit: iStockphoto/Beata Becla) ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2008) — Bisphenol A, a chemical that leaches into food and beverages from many consumer products, causes normal, non-cancerous human breast cells to express genes characteristic of aggressive breast cancer cells. That’s the finding of a “Priority Report” in the latest issue of the journal Cancer Research, the official journal of...
  • Organic Molecule, Amino Acid-Like, Found In Constellation Sagittarius

    03/28/2008 6:11:45 AM PDT · by CarrotAndStick · 62 replies · 1,990+ views
    Science Daily ^ | Mar. 27, 2008 | Science Daily
    ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2008) — Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the constellation Sagittarius (Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press).  Amino acetonitrile. (Credit: Sven Thorwirth, MPIfR) The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2....
  • Scientists spot organic molecule on distant planet (HST spots methane 63 light-years away)

    03/19/2008 2:38:51 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 220+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 3/19/08 | Will Dunham
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An organic molecule has been spotted for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, a key step toward possibly finding signs of life on a distant world, scientists said. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope found methane in the atmosphere of a planet called HD 189733b, which is about the size of Jupiter and is 63 light-years from Earth, they said in research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Organic molecules contain carbon-hydrogen bonds and can be found in living things. Methane, for instance, is found in natural gas and...
  • U.S. organic food industry fears GMO contamination

    03/13/2008 10:16:56 AM PDT · by BGHater · 17 replies · 541+ views
    Reuters ^ | 12 Mar 2008 | Carey Gillam
    Widespread contamination of U.S. corn, soybeans and other crops by genetically engineered varieties is threatening the purity of organic and natural food products and driving purveyors of such specialty products to new efforts to protect their markets, industry leaders said this week. A range of players, from dairy farmers to natural food retailers, are behind an effort to introduce testing requirements and standards for certification aimed at keeping contamination at bay. That goal is rapidly becoming harder, however, as planting of biotech corn, soybeans, and other crops expands across the United States. "Now there is a real shortage of organic...