It came as close as you can get, but the Montana Alliance for Raw Milk (MTARM), which would have legalized raw milk sales throughout the state of Montana, came up one vote short of passing on Thursday, reports Food Safety News.
No Raw Milk for Montana: Bill Fails By One VoteApril 24th, 2013 - Jill EttingerEWG’s 2013 Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen Lists Highlight Pesticides in ProduceApril 23rd, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
The Environmental Working Group’s EWG’s 2013 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce—the annual list of most pesticide-contaminated produce was released yesterday, and sees apples at the top of the list once again. Read More:EWG’s 2013 Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen Lists Highlight Pesticides in ProduceBrazilian Cattle Ranchers Fined for Destroying RainforestApril 22nd, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
Twenty-six Brazilian beef producers are facing nearly $300 million in fines from Brazilian prosecutors for buying cattle raised illegally on deforested Amazon rainforest land or indigenous reservations, reports Reuters. Read More:Brazilian Cattle Ranchers Fined for Destroying RainforestTea Drinking Tops the World’s ‘Hottest’ Beverage CategoryApril 21st, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
Global food giant Unilever has called tea the ‘hottest beverage’ being consumed around the world. And they don’t mean a temperature too hot to drink. They’re talking about the saleability of tea products, particularly as soda sales decline over obesity and obesity-related illness concerns. Read More:Tea Drinking Tops the World’s ‘Hottest’ Beverage CategoryNon-GMO Food Gets Another Certifier: GMO GuardApril 19th, 2013 - Jill EttingerNatural Food Certifiers (NFC), known for its organic, kosher, gluten and vegan certification programs has launched GMO Guard, a third party verification program certifying non-GMO foods. The category of non-GMO certifiers has been slim compared with organic or kosher certification programs. Currently, the largest non-GMO certification program in the U.S. is the Non-GMO Project. The [...] Read More:Non-GMO Food Gets Another Certifier: GMO GuardGot Raw Milk? Bill Pending in Montana to Make it LegalApril 18th, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
Montana’s “small herd exemption bill” could allow some farms to sell raw milk to consumers despite the controversy and legal issues that have made it essentially illegal elsewhere. Read More:Got Raw Milk? Bill Pending in Montana to Make it LegalReport Finds High Levels of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in MeatApril 17th, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
A new report released by the Environmental Working Group finds an alarming amount of the meat sold in U.S. supermarkets and restaurants contain high levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Read More:Report Finds High Levels of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in MeatOcean Acidification Creating ‘Super-Sized’ Blue Crabs in the Chesapeake BayApril 16th, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
High carbon levels in the Chesapeake Bay are creating an imbalance among key species including oysters and blue crabs, reports the Washington Post. Read More:Ocean Acidification Creating ‘Super-Sized’ Blue Crabs in the Chesapeake BayCalifornia Adds BPA to Proposition 65 Toxic Chemicals ListApril 15th, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
BPA (bisphenol-A), the controversial chemical used in hardening plastic commonly found in a variety of plastics, aluminum can liners, baby bottles and even register receipts, is now considered a reproductive toxin by the state of California. Read More:California Adds BPA to Proposition 65 Toxic Chemicals ListNation’s Top Ten Retail Chains Urged to Remove 100 Toxic ChemicalsApril 14th, 2013 - Jill Ettinger
A new campaign sponsored by the advocacy group Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families is targeting the nation’s top ten retailers, who they claim aren’t doing enough to protect Americans from common toxins, reports Rodale. Read More:Nation’s Top Ten Retail Chains Urged to Remove 100 Toxic Chemicals |
