Topic: Organic Foods
The remote valley of Mesohori in northeastern Greece seems an unusual choice for a stand against genetically modified crop conglomerates who are knocking on Europe's door.Yet thousands of organic farming advocates seeking to bar so-called "Frankenstein" foods from the continent made the ...
ROME (Reuters) - The world has to take swift action to halt the steady rise in food prices and step up its commitment to sustainable agriculture, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday."We must act now, effectively and cooperatively to blunt ...
HAMBURG (Reuters) - German chemicals group BASF said on Friday it had acquired ownership rights to another type of potato containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).The non-food starch potato Modena has been acquired from unlisted Dutch company AVEBE by BASF Plant Science, BASF said. ...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A small South Carolina sea island family farm that has tapped the growing agriculture tourism market in order to survive has launched its "Rent-A-Chick" program just in time for Easter.The Legare family, of Johns Island, South Carolina, ...
Ecologically friendly Ecuadoran banana producers, with the help of President Rafael Correa, are trying to secure their niche in a market dominated by multi-national giants.The organic farmers' cooperative El Guabo was founded in 1998 in the agricultural region of El Oro iby ...
At the popular Bio Company store in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, the shelves are virtually bare, as demand for organic meat and eggs spikes amid a dioxin crisis that has shaken Germans' faith in food."Dioxin: Bio products are not affected," screams a notice ...
Standing in her greenhouse in gumboots, Zorana Gajic jokes that she used to think "food grew in supermarkets" but now experiments on how to mix crops to ensure optimum use of her "organic" soil.A path next to the greenhouse leads to an ...
WSU expert encourages organic growers to better track organic sales, even as acreage fallsWashington's organic apple growers need to gain a better understanding of how much of their crop is sold without an organic label, costing them higher prices in the retail ...
Tim Carman's predecessor at the Washington Post has moved on to greener pastures ? quite literally ? absconding to the hills of West Virginia to take a close look at how some Americans eat. Jane Black's first op-ed since leaving the Post, ...
Jane Black and Brent Cunningham Tackle the Notion That Local and Organic Foods Are Only for the Rich
Tim Carman's predecessor at the Washington Post has moved on to greener pastures ? quite literally ? absconding to the hills of West Virginia to take a close look at how some Americans eat. Jane Black's first op-ed since leaving the Post, ...
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