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Meet your greens, part 3: Taking the stand against the veggilantes

By Elanor • on October 4, 2009

This is the third in a series about the USDA hearings on an industry proposal for a food-safety marketing agreement for leafy green vegetables. My first

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Meet your greens, part 2: Industry seeks to outfox FDA

By Elanor • on September 28, 2009

This is the second in a series of posts on my week in Monterey, CA, where I attended the first

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Meet your greens: National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement hearings, Week 1

By Elanor • on September 25, 2009

This is the first in a short series on the National Leafy

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Pork prevention: What’s behind the NPPC bailout, or how the government keeps filling up Big Meat’s trough

By Elanor • on August 23, 2009

During the Iowa flood disaster in the summer of 2008, I proposed that there are winners

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Do I dare to eat a peach? Not a conventional one, says Tribune study

By Elanor • on August 13, 2009

Another day, another facet to the debate over whether organic produce is

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If biotechnology won’t feed the world, what will? Knowledge, says GE expert Doug Gurian-Sherman

By Elanor • on July 10, 2009

Earlier this week, I asked plant pathologist and molecular biologist Doug Gurian-Sherman

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Can biotechnology ‘feed the world’? Not likely, says genetic engineering expert Doug Gurian-Sherman

By Elanor • on July 8, 2009

With food shortages provoking riots in recent years, and the world’s

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Running dry: Time to save our nation’s dairy farmers

Did you see that movie "Flash of Genius"? It follows the unlucky Robert Kearns, played by Greg Kinnear, as he spends his life (and his savings) perfecting the intermittent windshield wiper, only to have

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Transgenic seeds are toast(ed): New report says GE crops have not increased yield

Couched deep within the earth-mother rhetoric of a recent

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There are much scarier food safety bills than HR 875 in Congress

If you care about food and farming and you use the Internet, you've probably received this particular e-mail. The title is something like, "BILL WOULD OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING!!!!" or "MONSANTO'S DREAM BILL!!!!"

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While we were sleeping: Score one for the GMO lobby

Updated at 3:10 pacific to include the full language of the relevant section of the bill. Thanks, IM. Things have been busy around here lately, but that's no excuse. We've just been reminded that, like

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No comment, no say: lend your voice to shaping four big food & ag policies

Photo from Iowa, courtesy of factoryfarm.org. It's easy to get cynical about our ability to influence policy or policymakers - especially when we don't have lots of money or a well-dressed K St. lobby

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Not milk: The ingredient behind the dairy crisis

I have no idea what it would feel like to be a dairy farmer. I don't run a business that was started by my father or mother or grandparents, or that I built myself; I don't own and manage land that has

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Down (and out) on the farm: When even the good years don’t look so good

In late 2006, I was driving by corn fields in eastern Iowa when Tom Ashbrook's  NPR show "On Point" came on the radio. The topic was ethanol. Among the commentators was an ag economist from Iowa State

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All steriled up: Produce safety guidelines throw sustainability out, keep toxic bathwater

Readers may remember back in November when I announced the first installment of a two-part post on produce safety. It's taken me

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