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Sustainable agriculture non-profits and Oregon farmers have filed a second lawsuit to halt the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s (ODA) controversial new rule that would for the first time open the ...
Citrus season is winding down, but there’s still time to get the most out of your winter fruit. Citrus peels are a woefully underused part of the fruit that are completely edible and delicious.
New rule would hold organic food animal production to higher standards. WASHINGTON—Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule that would hold organic livestock ...
Center for Food Safety Certifies Second University Under BEE Protective Campaign. Center for Food Safety (CFS) congratulates Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania on becoming a designated ...
Legislation to require foods produced with genetic engineering be labeled in Vermont, HR 112, passed the Senate Judiciary today 5-0. The bill has already passed the State House and the Senate ...
Were you one of the thousands of people appalled at a new dairy company, "CyClone Dairy," selling milk from cloned cows? April Fools! Ben & Jerry's launched this fictitious dairy company - selling ...
As we wrap up National Farmworker Awareness Week, many of us around the country are taking today as opportunity to celebrate one of the most important voices in the farmworker rights movement – Cesar ...
WASHINGTON—Late yesterday, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reneged on a proposed ban of the brain-damaging pesticide, chlorpyrifos. Obama’s EPA had proposed the ban in ...
Today, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski released a statement asserting her opposition to the controversial “biotech rider” her committee allowed in the Continuing Resolution ...