Shocking story: "The Stowers operate an organic food cooperative called Manna Storehouse. ODA and Lorain County Health Department agents forcefully raided their home and seized the family's personal food supply, cell phones and personal computers.
Caught on the Web
Unconscionable Police Raid on Family's Home and Organic Food Co-Op
Submitted by zsoka on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 14:55.Something fishy? Counterfeit foods enter the U.S. market
Submitted by zsoka on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 09:48."Some of your favorite foods may be fakes.
Foods masquerading as something else — a more nutritious something else — have been big news in the past two years. Chinese food companies in particular have been blamed for making deadly alterations to dairy, baby and pet foods by adding melamine...
Read the full article."
Organic Farm Contaminated by Pesticides Wins $1M in California
Submitted by zsoka on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 10:01."SANTA CRUZ, California, September 29, 2008 (ENS) - A Santa Cruz County jury has awarded $1 million to an organic farm in Santa Cruz whose edible herbs were contaminated by pesticides applied to vegetables on nearby farms.
Lawyers for Jacobs Farm / Del Cabo said today that organophosphate pesticides evaporating after application and then blowing onto the organic herbs made it impossible for Jacobs Farm to sell significant portions of its 2006 and 2007 harvests of sage, rosemary and dill.
More Than 31 Million Organic Hectares Worldwide
Submitted by zsoka on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 06:03. According to the latest global data on organic farming, more than 31 million hectares of farmland are under organic management worldwide, a gain of around five million hectares in a single year. A major increase of organic land has taken place in China, where nearly three million hectares of pastoral land were recently certified, according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).
Nature's Path Podcast
Submitted by mariuss on Fri, 04/07/2006 - 22:29. The Richmond based Nature's Path company started a podcast with information about nutrition, health, organics and lifestyle choices.
The podcast is called "Optimum LifeStreams" and it is located at:
http://www.naturespath.com/podcast
You can listen to the episodes right on the site, download them or subscribe to the RSS feed and have them delivered to you as soon as they are published.
The last episode, the fourth, was published today and it is called "Organic Food: How and Why to Make the Shift".
The podcast is called "Optimum LifeStreams" and it is located at:
http://www.naturespath.com/podcast
You can listen to the episodes right on the site, download them or subscribe to the RSS feed and have them delivered to you as soon as they are published.
The last episode, the fourth, was published today and it is called "Organic Food: How and Why to Make the Shift".
