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Thank You for Spraying
By Ken Cook, EWG President When Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) spoke to the Organic Trade Association’s Washington Policy Conference the other day, her talk had two parts: the part where she left the distinct impression that she had no idea whom she was talking to, and the part where it seemed she didn’t care. Schmidt chairs the House Agriculture Subcommittee on... Continue Reading...
Cut Spending – But Not My Farm Subsidies!
by Chris Campbell, Amber Hanna and Don Carr That some members of Congress are farmers is hardly new. Many of the Founding Fathers worked the land. But as the industrial age transformed America’s agrarian society and technology made it possible for fewer farmers to grow more crops on more land, the number of lawmakers actively engaged in agriculture dropped sharply. We... Continue Reading...
Eaters Deserve a Place at the Farm Bill Table
Federal nutritional guidelines advise us to eat five-to-nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day. That’s not too difficult if you are lucky enough to have access to the fresh and tasty produce grown in Northern California, where I live. But many folks in this region and in the rest of the country aren’t so lucky. Fresh vegetable consumption has declined by nine... Continue Reading...
Who’s Really Missing the Point?
Two weeks ago in this space, my colleague Sheila Karpf called out the five largest commodity crop organizations over the glaring lack of women in leadership positions on their boards. Her impetus was agribusiness’ new effort to polish its tarnished brand by enlisting women in a PR effort called CommonGround. From its web site: Consumers aren’t getting the real story... Continue Reading...
