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Grassfed Raw Milk Sales Double after BBC Milk Show

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Phil Ridley reviews a recent radio show on BBC, What is Milk? In the show raw milk gets fair treatment, and sales of one raw milk farm doubled after the show aired.

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A Heartfelt Wish…for No GMOs

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Leslie Goldman, the local foods poet laureate, offers an inspirational Valentine’s wish, for a greener, cleaner world!

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Monsanto’s Creeping Contamination Strategy

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Now that our government has caved to pressure to deregulate GMO alfalfa, citizen education and action is the only way to save organic food and farming. I am looking for leaders who want to address this challenge.

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Madness and Violent Behavior: The Food Connection

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The Arizona mass shooting is yet another gut wrenching tragedy to occur on American soil. When are we going to dig deeper and find the root causes of such widespread mental illness in our land?

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Sustainable Farming Advocate Fired by USDA National Organic Program

Mark-Keating

At a time when the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) is channeling money to outside contractors with no experience in organic agriculture to write production standards, why would it invent reasons to fire the most experienced regulatory rule writer on its staff?

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S 510 Opponent Wins Activist Award at Sustainable Agriculture Conference

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Sustainable agriculturalists recognize the valiant effort of one farmer citizen to derail the food safety “modernization” act, which is such a threat to mixed use and small farms.

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How the FDA Can Use S 510 to Close Down Raw Milk Dairies

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What’s at stake for raw milk in the FDA S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act? How about everything…

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Woman Poisoned by Pesticides Speaks Out on S510

Ho'okipa Lookout means Hospitality. Corporations have Overstayed their Welcome in Hawaii.

Kimberly Usher knows first-hand the dangers of pesticides in foods, she lives in Hawaii, where corporate farms have poisoned the environment with heavy spraying. Kimberly is now crippled due to exposure to these dangerous chemicals.

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S510 Means Loss of Food as Medicine

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Leslie Goldman wants to stimulate a national conversation on food safety policy which will also protect food as medicine and farmer’s and consumer’s freedoms.

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The Fall of Rome and US Dietary Guidelines

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Sally Fallon Morell’s Presidents Message in the Fall issue of Wise Traditions has an ominous tone. Those that ignore our food history are bound to repeat it…

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