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Animal Food Production in the US Industry Market Research Report Now Available from IBISWorld - SFGate
The Animal Food Production industry depends on favorable conditions outside its control, such as weather patterns, disease incidence and consumer preferences. Despite these volatile conditions, growth is expected as global demand for meat increases in line with overall population growth, especially in developing countries. Advancements in crop technology and alternative energy sources combined with product innovation are projected to alleviate some of the inherent risks the industry faces associated with commodity-based goods.
The Commodities Research Bureau/Reuters Food index represents a basket of prices of basic foodstuffs. The index has been falling for most of the year, but has rallied by 10pc since June. This will feed into inflation in the next few months as more than 10pc of the consumer price index related to food.
US drought threatens to fuel food inflation
Massive corporate welfare for big ag means taxpayer are buying low-quality food - Minneapolis Top News
It was a small news item buried inside the Minneapolis StarTribune, but it was depressing: A Twin Cities farmer’s market was closing down due to lack of interest, and lack of sales of locally grown fresh produce. This news item caught my attention because Congress is currently putting the finishing touches on the new 5-Year Farm Bill , which most likely will be passed this year. This latest version is again loaded with massive corporate welfare for big agriculture and subsidies for growing the usual – wheat, corn and sugar. These commodities -- while not inherently lacking in good nutrition (except for the worthless sugar beets) -- tend to end up being highly processed into low-value foods, and this in turn contributes to the ever spreading fat arse of America’s obesity epidemic.
Over the objections of southern Senators and one from New York, the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a five-year farm bill Thursday that now heads for a vote on the Senate floor. The bill, called the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, received strong bipartisan support in a 12-4 vote (or 16-5, including proxy votes). Three southern Republicans said they could not support it because they view its programs for rice, cotton and peanuts as unfair, and Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said she opposed cuts to food stamp programs that would affect hundreds of thousands of low income residents of her state. “This Committee is unique. Our hearing room doesn’t have a raised dais; instead we sit together around a table, not unlike the tables that America’s farmers sit around after a long day’s work," said Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) at the start of the meeting to mark up a bill. "The work we do around this table is hard.
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Rep. Sam Farr wins organic award | Politics Blog
The Organic Trade Association on Wednesday gave Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, its public service award for his “unwavering support and advocacy for organic farmers,” most powerfully through his post as top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture panel. The trade group said the organic market topped $31.5 billion last year , growing 9.5 percent last year, but still only 4.2 percent of U.S. food sales. From there Farr, a former Peace Corps volunteer, has provided a counterweight to the government’s heavy focus on corn, soybeans, cotton and other commodity crops, by pushing funding for the National Organic Program, which certifies organic products, and critically, funding for research and data collection on organic farms and markets.
The Fight Over Food Stamps and Farm Subsidies
Photo: REUTERS/John Gress April 25, 2012 (This is the second in a two-part report analyzing the Senate House farm bills. Read the first part here .) Congress appears poised to begin overhauling long-standing agricultural price support programs, including the elimination of unconditional subsidies to farmers , in an effort to help lower their overall costs and eliminate some of the inequities in the program. The government currently hands out between $15 billion and $20 billion a year in aggie subsidies, depending on the prices of crops and the level of disaster payments.
Earth Day: Push for local agriculture, products is growing
View full size Sterman Masser Potato Farms is a family-owned potato farming company located in Sacramento, PA who provide potatoes to many local restaurants in the midstate, like, Shugar's Philly Deli in Lemoyne. CHRISTINE BAKER, The Patriot-News Buy local means many things to many people. It is the heirloom tomato grown on a Perry County farm, sliced and paired with locally made buffalo mozzarella cheese on a caprese salad. It is the coffee, roasted by hand and brewed from bean to cup at the corner coffee shop.Feed Everyone
Midwest's Tart Cherry Crop Destroyed By Weather
SISTER BAY, Wis. (AP) — Walk into Cherry Republic's store in the heart of the nation's biggest tart cherry producing region, and you could end up with jam or salsa with fruit that had to be imported from Poland. Cherry Republic can't get enough tart cherries from its local orchards because 97 percent of Michigan's crop was destroyed this year by a freak weather pattern. An unseasonably warm March that caused trees to bud was followed by an April freeze that killed the blossoms. Trees in New York and Wisconsin, which have smaller but still significant tart cherry harvests, suffered the same weather damage. Prices usually skyrocket when farmers take that kind of a loss, or in severe cases consumers might just have to give up on a fruit for a season.Farmland Grab
Monsanto likes to think of itself as a sustainable agriculture company. Prominently featured on their website beneath a video that proclaims, “we’re all in this together,” is their slogan, “producing more, conserving more, improving lives.” In their 2010 Sustainability Report , they proudly trumpet their commitment to improving crop yields in the face of an ever-increasing human population, which they put forth as the very essence of sustainability. Clearly, they are very single-mindedly committed to this goal, perhaps in what might be considered an ends-justify-the means manner. In truth, they are pursuing a sustainable objective in an unsustainable fashion.
Monsanto Fails UCS Test for Sustainable Agriculture
Energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops are not just undermining public health--they're destroying the planet. Here's how: #1 Generating Massive Greenhouse Gas Pollution (CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide) and Global Warming; While Promoting False Solutions Such as Industrial Biofuels, So-Called Drought-Resistant Crops, and Genetically Engineered Trees Evaluations of corn grown for ethanol show that whatever reduction in emissions you get from burning corn instead of oil in the gas tank is more than offset by the fact that producing biofuel from corn requires as much fuel as it could replace. Corn production, like the production of all of the crops (corn, cotton, canola, soy, and now, sugar beets and alfalfa) that Monsanto has so successfully industrialized through its business model of selling patented GMO seeds to increase the use of its pesticides, is very fossil fuel intensive.
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How much regulation do we need on food safety? | FOOD Magazine
All this discussion about food labelling, obesity, additives, good fats versus bad fats, good carbs versus bad carbs is enough to make anyone’s head spin. We’re getting cancer from eating certain foods. We’re avoiding cancer by eating others. You need superfoods!A ußen "Bio", drinnen ganz normale Ware: Ein mutmaßlicher Großbetrug mit gefälschten Öko-Lebensmitteln in Italien hat auch die deutschen Behörden alarmiert. Es seien Lieferlisten angefordert worden, um Daten an die Bundesländer und die dortigen Kontrollstellen weiterleiten zu können. Das teilte das Verbraucherministerium in Berlin am Mittwoch mit. Zuvor hatte die Polizei in der norditalienischen Stadt Verona 2500 Tonnen vermutlich falsch deklarierte Öko-Waren wie Mehl und Obst beschlagnahmt. Eine Fälscherbande soll mit dem Schwindel Millionenumsätze gemacht haben.
Öko-Schwindel in Italien: Deutschland sucht nach gefälschten Bio-Produkten
India toxic alcohol kills 143 in West Bengal
15 December 2011 Last updated at 10:09 ET Residents of 12 villages fell ill after consuming toxic alcohol At least 143 people are now known to have died after consuming toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state.Kaffee aus dem Hahn - High-Tech-Lustobjekte: Espresso aus dem Hahn - Digital
LEDs im Zickzack Kenntnisse der Astronomie müssen Träger dieser Digitaluhr, die ihren Namen mit dem Sternzeichen Cassiopeia teilt, glücklicherweise nicht besitzen. Dennoch: Manch eiliger Uhren-Besitzer dürfte angesichts des Ziffernblatts in Verzweiflung geraten.On Friday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced new legislation to protect the food supply from a potential crisis brought about by biotech giants like Monsanto,and the unrestricted use of their GMOs - Genetically modified organisms. H.R. 3554, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, would help prevent the biological contamination of our food supply. Kucinich’s common sense legislation would prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops. The bill would prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical. H.R. 3554 would also establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops, and protect native ecosystems and traditional farms from the unstudied dangers of growing GE organisms.
Kucinich bill aims to protect food supply from Monsanto, GMOs - National Democrat
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