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Food News Roundup

September 29, 2011

• Organic myths debunked! The Rodale Institute finally concluded its 30 year Farm Systems Trial, comparing yields of conventional/GMO commodity crops like corn and soy with two systems of organic (one with manure, and one with no animal inputs). The results were incredible – and organic won in every measure, hands down.
• In its continued effort to win the public’s approval for GMOs, factory farms, and toxic pesticides, the American Farm Bureau Federation is holding an event today called A Day in Agriculture to show what a farmer’s life is like for a day. Good bet they won’t be sharing stories about the day the manure lagoon overflowed into local waterways or the day scientists found out that a common herbicide turns male frogs into females…
• The death toll from the listeria outbreak in cantaloupe has risen to 13.
• The food industry-funded Richard Berman claims that the Meatless Monday campaign is a Communist plot or terrorist trick. What?!!!
• Journalist Claire Leschin-Hoar reports on Big Food’s unhealthy influence on America’s nutritionists.
• Monsanto wants you to buy its “better broccoli.”
• The USDA just gave nearly a half million dollars to AquaBounty, the company that makes the not-yet-legal and highly controversial genetically engineered salmon.

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