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Splashed across the Ben & Jerry’s website are cartoon-like pictures of happy cows romping in green pastures. There’s a reason those cows are depicted by drawings, not …
Read moreThe Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today filed suit against Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., for deceptive labeling, marketing and sale of Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream products. The suit was filed in D.C. Superior Court un…
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How do you grow sunflower sprouts? Start your own seedlings without plastic pots? Should you save seeds? These are just a few of the questions people interested in homesteading ask themselve…
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So-called “modern” food, produced through industrialized, chemical-intensive farming practices, is causing a host of chronic, hard-to-diagnose and hard-to-treat heal…
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Congratulations to Stéphane Foucart and Stéphane Horel for winning the 2018 European Press Prize for their exceptional research in the The Monsanto Papers.
Foucart and Horel won the investigati…
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You’ve heard it said before: No Farms, No Food.
But let’s not forget: No Soil, No Farms.
A few years ago, the United Nations warned that on average, the world ha…
Handsome Brook Farm and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced that they have resolved a consumer-protection action OCA filed against Handsome Brook in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on August 29, 2016, concerning Hands…
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It’s been an eventful week in federal court in San Francisco as expert witnesses face off on the science surrounding glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto…
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What happens when Monsanto doesn’t like what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller?
The chemical company convinces …
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We’re only beginning to learn the importance of healthy gut bacteria to our overall health—and the relationship between healthy soil and …
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