Organic produce superior to conventional on every level, study finds
Jonathan Benson Natural News Mainstream nutritionists often claim that conventional produce is no different than organic produce. But a new study recently published in the…
Agriculture
Two Non-GMO farming innovations that show great promise
Michael Edwards & Jeffrey Green Activist Post By all honest accounts, 2010 has been a terrible year for traditional agriculture worldwide. Extended severe weather events have…
New York Lawmakers Push for Salmonella Vaccinations
Associated Press NEW YORK – Two state legislators want to require farmers in New York to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella. Sen. Daniel Squadron and…
Could local organic farms become illegal?
The Moneyless Man: One Man’s Experiment in Living Without Money
Matt Ford CNN For most of us it seems that money makes the world go round. But not for Mark Boyle, who has turned his…
A New Look at Native American Farming
New American Farmer Native American farming is nothing new. In most American schools, we were taught that, in general, Native Americans were hunters and gatherers…
FDA uses egg recall to demand more authority over food
Ethan A. Huff Natural News Following the recall of more than half a billion commercially-produced eggs potentially tainted with salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug…
The Government Has a Seed Bank Savings Account — Why Shouldn’t You?
Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green Activist Post Government Seed Bank On the CSU Campus, there is a storage facility for seeds that is described as…
The War on Food: Eggsactly What is Going on Here?
Mac Slavo SHTF Plan Reading this week’s headlines about the egg salmonella crisis may leave one with the impression that we need more government control…
FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteurization
Ethan A. Huff Natural News Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been…
Dust Bowl Haunts Wheat Farmers
Kirk Johnson NY Times Wheat got a bad rap in the 1930s, and has been faulted in environmental retrospectives ever since as the crop that…
5 Health Foods to Avoid
Dr. Mercola What do you usually have for breakfast? Eggs, toast and orange juice sounds pretty good, no? If this is your idea of a…
Abundance and Scarcity: Two Opposing Forces Driving the Way We Live and Farm
New American Farming When it comes to farming, there are one of two thought processes, or belief systems, governing the mode of operation for each…
228 Million Eggs Recalled Following Salmonella Outbreak
Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON – An Iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning….