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- 01/15/09 - Vilsack Hearing: More Coronation Than Confirmation--Except for the OCA
- 01/15/09 - Vilsack Speaks Out for 'Agribusiness as Usual' at His Senate Confirmation Hearing
- 01/14/09 - USDA Secretary Nominee Causes Dustup in Organic Industry
- 01/11/09 - Billions Face Food Shortages, Study Warns
- 01/10/09 - Amazon Deforestation: Earth's Heart and Lungs Dismembered
- 01/09/09 - Employee Free Choice Act Is Under Heavy Attack
- 01/09/09 - Investing in a New Food System Should be Part of the Economic-Spending Package
- 01/09/09 - Union of Concerned Scientists FEED - January 2009
- 01/08/09 - Sign the Petition to Support Jim Riddle for Agricultural Marketing Services Division of the USDA
- 01/08/09 - GM Watch: Cold Comfort Farming / Walden Bello on Obama's "New Era"
- 01/07/09 - GMW: New Ag Technologies Deskilling Farmers
- 01/07/09 - Group Says a Federal Conservation Program Mostly Benefits Industrial Farms
- 01/06/09 - Senate to Consider Vilsack Appointment on Jan. 14
- 01/05/09 - Food, Farming, & Organics: 2008 By The Numbers
- 01/05/09 - Corporate and Government Policies Spark Food Crisis in America
- 01/05/09 - U.S. Needs 50-Year Farm Bill--Wendell Berry
- 12/31/08 - A Change We Can Believe In - Dumping Industrial Agriculture
- 12/31/08 - Former Kansas Governor: Factory Farms are a Danger to Us All
- 12/31/08 - More on Vilsack Appointment as New USDA Chief
- 12/30/08 - Cities May Sprout Vertical Farms
- 12/30/08 - Honey Laundering: A Sticky Trail of Intrigue and Crime
- 12/28/08 - EPA's Ongoing Cover-up of the Hazards of Toxic Sewage Sludge Routinely Spread on Farms, Parks, School Grounds, and Home Lawns & Gardens
- 12/24/08 - Bee Learning Behavior Affected by Eating Toxin from GE Corn
- 12/24/08 - Poultry Industry Seeks EPA Exemption From Reporting Emissions
- 12/22/08 - U.S. De-Regulates Factory Farm Pollution
- 12/22/08 - Will Obama Integrate Food, Farming & Health Policies?
- 12/21/08 - Organic and Sustainable Farmers Can Feed the World
- 12/21/08 - Bush EPA Continues its Criminal Actions, War on Americans: De-Regulates Factory Farm Pollution
- 12/20/08 - New Rules Will Ease Farm Hiring, Affect Wages
- 12/19/08 - US Agriculture Nominee Attracts Controversy
- 12/19/08 - GMW: 'Dear Mr Obama'
- 12/18/08 - Stop Vilsack's Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture
- 12/18/08 - OCA to Obama on Vilsack's Appointment: We Need Major Change, Not Small Change
- 12/18/08 - The Scoop - December 2008 Organic Center Newsletter
- 12/18/08 - Corporate Agriculture & Ethanol Lobby Backs Vilsack Appointment While OCA Objects
- 12/17/08 - Corporate Agribusiness Applauds Obama's Appointment of Vilsack as USDA Head
- 12/17/08 - OCA: Vilsack Not "Change We Can Believe In"
- 12/17/08 - Ag Secretary Announced: Tom Vilsack
- 12/16/08 - US Working Group on the Food Crisis
- 12/16/08 - Massive Violations of Human Rights of Migrant Workers by both Mexico & the U.S.
- 12/16/08 - Farmworkers Suffering in Southern California
- 12/15/08 - US Working Group on the Food Crisis: Call to Action
- 12/14/08 - Study Calls for Rules on Fertilizer
- 12/13/08 - The Time is NOW: Tell President-Elect Obama to Appoint a Secretary of Agriculture with Organic Values
- 12/12/08 - Bush Set to Ease Regulations on Poultry Pollution
- 12/12/08 - FEED - December 2008
- 12/11/08 - Obama's 'Secretary of Food'?
- 12/10/08 - New Tests Show Hazards of Spreading Mad Cow-Like Diseases by Feeding Animal Fats to Animals
- 12/09/08 - Chemical Used on Crops Could Make You Fat
- 12/09/08 - How to Survive a Government Raid on Your Farm
- 12/09/08 - Proposed USDA Rule Could Shut Down Organic Family Farmers
More Farm News Headlines
Latest Organic Science News
- 12/25/08 - A Food Agenda for Obama
- 12/12/08 - The Organic Green Revolution
- 12/09/08 - Proposed USDA Rule Could Shut Down Organic Family Farmers
- 11/25/08 - Stop 'Organic' Dairy Factory Farms
- 11/12/08 - President-Elect Obama: Please Support Organic Food & Farming
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Can You Hear Me Now? Organic & Natural Mean Workers Rights and Fair Trade
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Listen to Organic Consumers--No Sweatshop Natural Beef!
- 09/03/08 - Escalating Oil Prices Mean Organic Food Will Soon Be Cheaper than Chemical & Energy Intensive Industrial Food
- 08/27/08 - 09.27.08 Green Jobs Now!
- 08/15/08 - Skin Creams Seen to Cause Tumours on Mice
National Organic Farming Associations
- The New Farm
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- AgWeb: The Ultimate Agricultural Research Directory
- Guide to Organic & Sustainable Veg. Production
- Acres USA
- ACORN - The Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network Searchable public database for organic products.
- Ecological Farming Association
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Northeast Organic Farming Association
- Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Assn.
- Sustainable Ag. Research & Education
- Organic Agriculture Center of Canada
- Ecological Agriculture Projects
- Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers: Rural Capacity Building Through Organic Agriculture
- InfoBasket: BC Ministry of Ag., Food & Fisheries
- Midwest Organic & Sustainable Educ. Service
- Organic Ag Info / Consortium
- Organic e-Prints
Alert!
Stop Vilsack's Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture
Action Alert
Call
for an Immediate Moratorium on
US Incentives for Agrofuel
More than 100 US based and international organizations, including the Organic Consumers Association, are calling for a moratorium on government subsidies for industrial-scale monoculture agrofuels. While billions of dollars in subsidies for corn, soy and palm oil-based agrofuels, like ethanol and biodiesel, certainly result in higher profits for corporate giants such as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, and Monsanto, their overall contribution to reducing greenhouse gases is negligible.
In addition, millions of acres of carbon sequestering tropical rainforest and wetlands in the Amazon and Asia are being destroyed in order to make way for soy and palm oil plantations. Government support for agrofuels in the U.S., basically subsidies for genetically engineered corn and soybeans, are already costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Learn more and sign the Agrofuel Moratorium Petition today!
State Organic
Farming Associations
- AL Sustainable Ag.e Network
- CA Certified Organic Farmers
- CAFF Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- CO Organic Producers Assn.
- Connecticut NOFA
- FL Organic Growers & Consumers
- Georgia Organics
- HI Organic Farming Assn.
- Hoosier Organic Marketing Education
- Louisiana Organic Association
- Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Assn.
- Maryland Certified Growers Co-op
- NOFA/Massachusetts
- MI Organic Food & Farm Alliance
- Organic Growers of Michigan
- Minnesota Organic Farmers' Information Exchange
- The Land Stewardship Project
- The Alliance for Sustainability - MN
- Missouri Organic Association
- Missouri Alternatives Center
- Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
- NOFA/New Hampshire
- NOFA/New Jersey
- NOFA/New York
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
- OH Ecological Food & Farm Assn.
- Oregon Tilth, Inc.
- The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Pennsylvania Certified Organic
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
- NOFA/Rhode Island
- Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
- NOFA Vermont
- Virginia Association for Biological Farming
- Seattle Tilth
Links
- Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidies Database
- State Organic Farming Associations & Networks
- National & International Organic Farming Associations
- Organic Gardening Resources
- National NGOs with Great Resources on GE Crops and Food
- The Organic Insider Highly recommended Newsletter
- Mother Earth News
- Local Harvest Find family farms, farmers markets and other sustainably grown agricultural products
- Organic Volunteers
- OFRF Organic Farming Research Foundation
- RAFI USA - Rural Advancement Foundation
- Noah's Ark Organic Farmer
- Biodynamic Association of America
- Food System Creators Cafe
- The Greenhorns Guide for Beginning Farmers
UK - Europe
International
- Organic Trade Services
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
- Organic Agriculture at FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Books
- Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba
- New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman
- Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Shapiro & John Harrisson
- Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works
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