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  1. Four USDA Listening Sessions on New Livestock/Pasture Rule Begin This Week

    http://www.cornucopia.org/2008/12/four-usda-listening-sessions-on-new-livestockpasture-rule-begin-this-week/

    The USDA has scheduled four listening sessions to gather input on its newly proposed organic livestock/pasture rule. The sessions are scheduled for: Tuesday, December 2 1:30-4:30 p.m. Organic Valley Family of Farms Headquarters One Organic Way LaFarge, WI 54639 Thursday, December 4 1:30-4:30 p.m. …

    3 days ago

  2. Organic Stakeholders Demand Democracy from the USDA

    http://www.cornucopia.org/2008/11/organic-stakeholders-demand-democracy-from-the-usda/

    Take Action: New Rules Could Force Organic Family Livestock Farmers Out of Business After eight years of political debate, legal wrangling and protests within the organic community the USDA on October 23 finally published a draft rule intended to clamp down on giant factory farms milking thousands …

    5 days ago

  3. Shoppers Pay While Food Processors Profit

    http://www.cornucopia.org/2008/11/shoppers-pay-while-food-processors-profit/

    Western Farm Press The release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October proves what too many Americans already have learned the hard way: input costs for food processors are way down but the prices they charge grocery shoppers continue to climb. …

    9 days ago
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    USDA Takes First Steps to End Factory Farm Organic Dairies

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    "organic" dairies out of business by issuing new rules that would disqualify them as organic. The bad news is that the proposed rule is so flawed that we can't even advocate for it. First of all - if you are concerned about your own milk, check out Cornucopia Institute's

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    CEO: What Does it Mean for Green?" -- The Green Wave Marches On: Wal-Mart in China -- Grist: "Wal-Mart Comes to the Farmers Market" -- Press Release: "Walmart Gives Consumers Opportunity To Support Local Economies Through Locally Grown Program" -- Cornucopia Institute: Wal-Mart Organics: Market Expansion or Market Delusion? -- Press Release: "Wal-Mart Makes Major Commitment to Renewable Wind Power" -- Wal-Mart Carbon Disclosure Project Response, 2007 -- Lee Scott Message in Wal-Mart Sustainability Progress report, 2007 CWR ViewPoint: Listen Bloomberg Columnist Jonathan Weil, t

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    Expanding World

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    Back from the Weston A. Price Foundation Conference

    http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/11/11/back-from-the-weston-a...

    ll be listening to everything over the next month or so — and blogging about it, of course. I did manage to catch some very inspiring lectures by Jeffrey Smith from the Institute for Responsible Technology and Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute. I’ll be posting more about everything I learned soon. I was thrilled to meet some of my readers. We had some great long talks over dinner — you know, the kind of talks where you keep thinking,

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    Raleigh street news

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    and see if you can find the dairy you rely on for your milk products. This survey was done by the Cornucopia Institute, which advocates for family-scale farming, and the entire report about milk integrity and how they evaluated the participants is here: http://www.cornucopia.org/2008/01/dairy-report-and-scorecard/. What you will find is an internal conversation about what "organic" means, and how that is interpreted in the size of the dairy operations. What are the benefits of "organic" if the practices are for large-scale farming? Where can you find local food? Local Harvest http://

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