By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq., Political Director Organic Consumers Association, October 6, 2010 Only 26% of the U.S. public understands that most junk foods and animal products contain GMO ingredients. The FDA is moving fast to approve a brave new world of GMO foods, including genetically engineered animals like Frankenfish, the eel-like-ocean-pout-chinook-Atlantic-salmon mix. Genetically modified foods are less nutritious, more ...
Category Archives: Organic Foods
Don’t Panic, Go Organic
Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg's scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world -- better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming. BY ANNA LAPPÉ | APRIL 29, 2010 For a start, Paarlberg doesn't get what it means to be organic. "Few smallholder farmers in Africa use any synthetic ...
Why Eat Organic Foods?
By Jane Falke Organic describes a way to grow agricultural products using a method of farming that encourages soil and water preservation and reduces toxic waste. Organic farmers employ practices such as crop rotations and mulching instead of chemical herbicides; natural fertilizers to improve the soil for ideal plant growth and nutrition instead of chemical fertilizers; ...
