Photo by Marko Matasic
by Carolyn Steel
Ode Magazine
From 100-mile diets to vertical farming, from green markets to organics, from obesity to genetically modified organisms, food is always in the news. The issues are political, social, emotional, psychological, ecological and economic. Take the current popularity of urban farming, for example. A renewed interest in […]
By Deborah Adams
Food Freedom
When I decided to live the locavore diet for a month, it hardly seemed worth the bother. I have a garden, my chickens provide eggs, my pantry is stocked with beans, peas, potatoes, apples, peaches, and other goodies that I preserved last year. A plethora of small farms […]
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
If we lose the right to organize private organizations to share food, then the food rights war war will be over sooner than you can say “raw milk.”
Why? Because the food regulators and politicians have full control of the public realm, and are gaining more with […]
Food safety chief defends raw milk raids
by Carolyn Lochhead
San Francisco Chronical
Excerpts:
Obama food safety chief and former Monsanto lawyer Michael R. Taylor today defended the FDA’s sting operations and armed raids against raw milk producers, including Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, who is facing an injunction for selling milk across state lines. None of […]
by Bob McCarty
Almost nine months after a Missouri dairy was ordered to stop selling cheese made from raw milk, I share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State: John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must pay […]
by: M.K. Tyler
(NaturalNews) Live in Europe? Get your herbs while they last. New rules put forth by the European Union (EU) will ban the sale of certain herbal remedies that have been used for centuries.
Traditional herbs such a St. John’s Wort or Echinacea must now meet strict licensing guidelines in […]
by Grassfed on The Hill
May 16, 2011, 10AM
Washington DC, Upper Senate Park
Stay tuned to http://grassfedonthehill.com/ for additional details!
For the past year and half, the FDA has conducted an undercover sting operation on dairy farmer Dan Allgyer and his loyal private buying club customers. In response to this affront of our freedoms, the […]
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by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient
If Minnesota foodies and farmers occasionally get the feeling they’re being watched closely by Big Brother, maybe it’s because they are.
Last Thursday, the day before the Third Annual Raw Milk Symposium was due to get under way at the Embassy Suites Hotel in […]
By Rady Ananda
thepeoplesvoice.org
A few hours ago, the Food and Drug Administration declared it no longer needs credible evidence to seize food that may be contaminated. Ignoring the Fourth Amendment entirely, the FDA claims that based on mere suspicion that a food product has been contaminated or mislabeled, and that serious […]
by Food Freedom
On Saturday, April 2, Blue Hill became the third town in Maine to adopt the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance. The Ordinance was passed at Blue Hill’s town meeting by a near unanimous vote. This comes on the heels of the unanimous passage of the Ordinance in neighboring towns, Sedgwick and Penobscot, […]
