[Editor's Note: This is part six of Mark Keating's ongoing history of the origins and evolution of organic agriculture; how the organic community and the USDA eventually came together to create the national organic standards; their subsequent implementation; and the fallout felt through to the present day.]
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U.S. Adopts National Organic Standards: Victory for All, but…
A 21st Century Social Contract Between Agriculture & the Public
January 8, 2010 A Farm Foundation Roundtable discussion took place today. Michael Dimock, of Roots of Change (ROC) was present, offering “ten basic building blocks” for a new social contract. Dimock goes on to say,
” I am a realist who looks at the past and says we can, we will, and we must [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2
editor’s note: In a recently disclosed Associated Press investigative report, Monsanto is being investigated for possible antitrust violations regarding its (seed) business licensing practices by the U.S. Department of Justice, and at least two state attorneys general. The video below was originally published in February, 2009; the written post has been updated to reflect new [...]
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Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?
This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the debate hold entrenched views; those in opposition to its use [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
In Claire Hope Cummings very fine book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, she dedicates a chapter to corn, and her visit to a region of Mexico, the center of origin where ancient corn began. Centers of origin, as Cummings explains, are the few places on earth [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, she argues is a direct result of the industrialization of agriculture. “Our bodies are not machines”, Cummings reminds us, all the parts of a biological (agriculture) system must remain healthy if [...]
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