Sisters' Camelot fight hunger the organic way
www.startribune.com - June 07, 2011
Three days a week, a funky bus transformed into a kitchen-on-wheels parks in a Minneapolis or St. Paul neighborhood. Inside cooks whip up such entrees as stuffed green peppers or zucchini with brie cheese, while others drag out a ...
Read moreOrganic agriculture's resilience shows untapped potential
www.theindependent.com - June 06, 2011
Despite the crippling effects of the recent economic slowdown on many industries, the organic agriculture sector not only sustained itself during this period, but also showed signs of growth. "In 2009, organic farming was pract...
Read morePutting Dairy Cows Out to Pasture: An Environmental Plus
www.ars.usda.gov - June 02, 2011
Every year, a hefty dairy cow tucked away in a snug barn produces more than 20,000 pounds of milk, along with an impressive amount of manure and an array of gases. New modeling work by an Agricultural Research Service team in Univ...
Read moreGroups sue FDA to stop addition of antibiotics in livestock feed
www.washingtonpost.com - June 01, 2011
Several environmental and public health groups filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to try to force the government to stop farmers from routinely adding antibiotics to livestock feed to help animals gro...
Read moreYou Want Superbugs With That?
- May 27, 2011
Stuart Levy once kept a flock of chickens on a farm in the rolling countryside west of Boston. No ordinary farmer, Levy is a professor of molecular biology and microbiology and of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. T...
Read moreFactory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste Than All People In the US Combined and It's Killing Our Drinking Water
alternet.org - May 25, 2011
The simple fact is that factory farms produce over 100 times more waste than all American humans produce combined. In the past, a pastured cow might disperse waste over an acre or more; how can farmers responsibly deal with the wa...
Read moreOrganic food 'can help you lose weight and live longer'
www.dailymail.co.uk - May 23, 2011
Switching to organic produce could help you live longer as well as keeping you healthier and slimmer, say academics. Fruit and vegetables grown without artificial fertilisers have significantly more key nutrients, including vita...
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