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11 Mar 07
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Consumer Reports >, of all publications, is taking on the USDA’s weakening of restrictions on cattle and cattle parts imported from Canada. A sidebar explains that “organic, biodynamic, or 100 percent grass-fed beef carries the least risk” of contracting mad-cow disease. > Consumer Reports
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3 million cage-raised tilapia suffocated due to drought in southern Colombia. > Fishfarmer magazine >
The fish from down under: Australian native fish Barramundi are gaining in popularity as farmed fish in Massachusetts, but as this article mentions, they’re carnivorous. Ad while their diet of wild small ocean fish (the catching of which is destabilizing wild predator fish populations) can be supplemented by corn and soy, they may not be as tasty on grain. Plenty
Paging Joanne!
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The lag time in livestock production means that there’s currently an oversupply of factory pork and chicken, which will not last thanks to increasing prices for corn and soybean. Des Moines Register
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Yet another article about whether “local is the new organic”; this one quotes Friend o’Ethicurean Jen Maiser, founder of the blogs Eatlocalchallenge.com and Lifebeginsat30.com. E! The Environmental magazine
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Organic dairy farmers around the U.S. are banding together to demand that the “access to pasture” rule be enforced by the USDA’s organic program, reports Sam Fromartz. Chews Wise Meanwhile, Sustainable Table’s blog alerts us that the Cornucopia Institute is actually suing the USDA over its failure to act against Dean Foods, owner of Aurora Organic Dairy, which produces Horizon brand and private-label milk marketed by Safeway, Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s, and Wal-Mart, among others. Bonus link: Cornucopia has some damning aerial photos of Aurora’s dairy operations, in which not a blade of grass can be seen. But hey, the cows *look* happy.
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