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Organic Product Review: Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies
Since going raw a few weeks ago, I’ve found myself looking out for new products that I can use to add variety to my diet. The diet is very restrictive: Meat, eggs and dairy are essentially out (unless you can … Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns, Organic Product Reviews
Tagged diet, Food, Health, Raw foodism, Vegetarian, Weight loss
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Organic Food and the Raw Food Diet
Raw foodists are hardly a unified bunch. They differ on whether we should eat primarily fruit (thereby getting our calories primarily from sugar) or fattier foods like avocados (which, admittedly are fruits themselves), nuts and seeds (thereby getting our calories … Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns
Tagged Food, Raw foodism, Veganism, Vegetarianism
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Xenoestrogens: Are Chemicals Making Us Fat?
We tend to think of weight gain (or loss) as a matter of what we eat, and how much we exercise. It seems like a very simple calculation: eat more, exercise less, gain weight. Eat less, exercise more, lose weight. … Continue reading
Posted in Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns, Pesticides
Tagged diet, Health, Weight gain, Weight loss, Xenoestrogen
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A Better Solution for Food Deserts?
The past couple years have seen a lot of talk about “food deserts.” These are colorfully named urban zones without a grocery store within one mile or rural zones without a grocery store within five miles. Initially, these “food deserts” … Continue reading
My First CSA Experience
As a food industry writer and professional, and an obsessor over my diet and “food issues,” you’d think I’d be a member of a CSA, or “community supported agriculture” group. But I’m not. The reason is, I’m not much of … Continue reading
Organic Valley Introduces “Grass Milk”
Organic Valley is coming out with “grass milk.” No, this isn’t milk made from grass, in the spirit of almondmilk, soymilk or ricemilk. It’s milk made by cows fed exclusively grass. Though I don’t drink milk, I welcome this news. … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy, Growing the Organic Industry, Health Concerns
Tagged Alzheimer, Cattle, Milk, Omega-3 fatty acid, organic milk, Organic Valley
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Organic Farmers’ Suit Against Monsanto Dismissed
So much for organic farmers’ latest efforts to combat what they view as a growing threat from biotechnology giant Monsanto. A group or organic farmers sued last year to prevent Monsanto from bringing patent infringement suits when pollen from the … Continue reading
Is It Bad That the U.S. and Europe Now Recognize Each Other’s Organic Certifications?
The U.S. and Europe recently agreed to recognize each other’s organic certifications. So far, the media’s reaction to this development has been positive: it should make it easier for European farmers to offer their products in the U.S., and vice … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy, Growing the Organic Industry, Product Transparency
Tagged Food, Organic farming, organic food
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Moving Toward Local Food Distribution?
Derek Singleton at Software Advice called my attention to his thought-provoking new post on the future of U.S. food distribution. His idea seems to be that the U.S. distribution system has become very centralized and national, as opposed to localized … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy, Growing the Organic Industry
Tagged Food, Food distribution, Local food, organic food, Urban agriculture
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Organic Milk Demand Outpacing Supply
Consumers’ demand for organic milk is rising faster than farmers’ ability to supply it. And, after a couple years of recession-induced anemic demand growth, this sounds like great news: organic milk is taking off! Well, yes and no. Some industry … Continue reading
