USA Food Quality, Awareness, and Activism

A Santa Cruz jury has awarded $1 million to Jacobs Farm, an organic farm whose edible herbs were contaminated by pesticides applied to vegetables on nearby farms. Organophosphate pesticides evaporated after application and were then blown by wind onto the organic herbs, making it impossible for...  

Controlling deadly malaria has depended on expensive and toxic pesticides, but alternatives now exist.  

Lawyers for Jacobs Farm / Del Cabo said today that organophosphate pesticides evaporating after application and then blowing onto the organic herbs made it ...  

A jury has awarded $1 million to an organic farm in Santa Cruz whose edible herbs were contaminated by pesticides sprayed on nearby farmlands. ...  

Our world seems to be increasingly toxic.  And while I feel rather confident that switching to a vegan diet has eliminated the most harmful offenders from my daily intake, I am aware that pesticides are something I can’t escape in my every day life.  I recently came across a website that’s worth...  

Food safety officials are scrambling to determine the extent to which New Zealand-made foods have been contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine which has poisoned thousands of Chinese babies.  

By DAVID BARBOZA BEIJING — Two weeks after China recalled infant milk formula because of contamination by an industrial chemical, foods tainted with that ...  

By Ibrahim Kasita ORGANIC cotton farmers in Pader and Kitgum are crying foul over organic pesticides distributed by Dunavant, saying the pesticides are not ...  

WITH food prices going up faster than New York  skyscrapers, anyone who can afford to buy organic everything - probably has a personal assistant doing their shopping for them. The rest of us face difficult decisions every time we push a cart. Prevention's the Healthy Cook: The...  

Farmers consider pesticides as essential to protect crops from insects, rodents and fungi. Despite the fact that pesticides have long been regulated in most ...  

... of an agro-aviation company to carry out aerial spray operations for 20 and 25 flight hours, adding that adequate pesticides have been provided. ...  

Here's an interesting tidbit from Hedges' story that I didn't know: Apparently pesticides are so ubiquitous that even organic food carry traces of them. ...  

These practices included failing to mix pesticides properly with the soil, using them inappropriately, putting workers and pesticide handlers in potential ...  

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2008) — With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimise the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and ...  

The development of biological pest control agents is being held back by shortcomings in the current European regulatory system for pesticides, argues a UK ...