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Food Labels: Natural vs. Organic – Video

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Food Labels: Natural vs. Organic
There are many nuances that make nutrition complicated. It is important to start with the basics, and then build upon those. Understanding what natural and/or organic food labels is a good...

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Which Organic Food Companies have the most Integrity? – Video

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Which Organic Food Companies have the most Integrity?
Our first official day at Natural Products Expo West was an exhausting success. Waylon brought his A game and interviewed huge and puny brands, looking for those with integrity that are good...

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Organic: The Next Generation Panel at Expo West 2015 – Video

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Organic: The Next Generation Panel at Expo West 2015
Arran and Arjan Stephens of Nature #39;s Path Organic Foods were joined by Dr. Mark Hyman, Erin Schrode, Gary Hirshberg and Colin Archipley to talk about the future of organic food and how we can...

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India Organic Food Market – Video

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March 18th, 2015 at 11:57 pm

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Organic Food Delivery Service – Video

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Organic Food Delivery Service
Organic Food Delivery Services designed to promoted a healthy lifestyle, to encourage local Cambodian people to grow crops and vegetables at home for a susta...

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March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 pm

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Organic Food Choices – Video

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Organic Food Choices
Registered Dietitian Amy Jamieson-Petonic gives viewers some much needed tips on making smart organic food choices.

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March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 pm

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Fire setback for Napier organic food producer Chantal

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A Napier-based organic food business is assessing the damage caused by a fire in its production operation on Tuesday night.

The Fire Service in Napier said the cause of the blaze at Chantal Organic Wholesalers was being investigated.

Company business development manager David Alexander said part of the single-storey production facility building had been damaged.

"Anything we change from a bulk packet into a retail packet will have some delays, anything we manufacture will have some delays - we don't know how long for," he said.

About 25 people worked on the site and it was too early to say how they would be affected by the fire.

"We're going to have some temporary setbacks," Alexander said.

Moving the production into temporary facilities would also have some impact.

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March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 pm

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Breeders offering corn that’s picky about pollen

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Organic farmers often live on islands in a sea of genetically modified crops. More than 90 percent of the corn that farmers plant is genetically modified to resist pests and herbicides.

And corn pollen gets around.

"Corn pollen can travel many miles," said Frank Kutka, a plant breeder with stories about how far corn will go to reproduce.

"An organic grower from southeastern North Dakota was growing blue corn," he said, "and he had farmers up to five miles away saying, 'Hey, I had a few blue kernels coming out of the combine.' So, yeah, corn pollen blows a long way."

Pollination is vital. But when an organic field is downwind of genetically modified (or GMO) corn plants, contamination happens. Such contamination can cost farmers thousands of dollars, because organic, GMO-free corn often brings a premium price of several dollars more per bushel.

Kutka works for the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society and lives in western North Dakota. He's been trying for several years to frustrate that traveling corn pollen. He's created an organic corn that rejects foreign pollen, and he's now working to grow enough seed to sell.

Organic farmers already take steps to reduce pollen contamination from genetically modified or GMO crops. They plant buffers around fields, and try to time planting so their corn produces pollen before or after genetically engineered corn growing nearby.

There's little data about the extent of genetic contamination, but in a survey done by the organic industry, about one-third of growers reported problems. This year a USDA survey of organic farmers is asking about financial losses caused by GMO contamination.

There's growing demand for organic, non-GMO corn to make everything from chips to baby food, and for use as animal feed. The organic food industry recorded $35 billion in sales in 2013.

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March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 pm

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MetaWear Launches USA’s First GOTS-Certified Ethical Manufacturing And Dye Factory

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MetaWear has just launched the nations first solar and geothermal-powered operation providing cutting, sewing, dyeing, and screen-printing of GOTS- certified organic cotton T-shirts using seaweed-based inks with no toxic inputs.

Fairfax, VA (PRWEB) - Close to our countrys capital, MetaWear has just launched the nations first solar and geothermal-powered operation providing cutting, sewing, dyeing, and screen-printing certified organic cotton T-shirts. This cutting-edge sustainable style manufacturer which uses seaweed-based inks with no toxic inputs, and pays its staff a livable wage was recently certified to the worlds platinum standard for the processing of organic textiles the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). MetaWear is the first and only US-based GOTS factory of its kind.

GOTS, the textile industrys counterpart to the US Department of Agricultures organic food standard, covers the growing, processing, manufacturing, packaging, labeling, trading, and distribution of all textiles made from at least 70 percent certified organic fiber. As with organic food standards, a textile product carrying the GOTS organic seal must contain a minimum of 95 percent certified organic fibers, while a product with the made with organic label must contain a minimum of 70 percent certified organic fiber. GOTS-certified textiles are free of pesticides, GMOs, formaldehyde, chlorine bleaches, heavy metals, and other chemicals detrimental to humans and the environment, but typically used in conventional cotton t-shirts and textiles.

MetaWear is extremely proud to be paving the way for todays textile industry here in the US. We adhere to the most stringent global processing standards, and offer earth-conscious, socially responsible, and flawlessly-fitting screen-printed apparel perfect for promoting companies brands and messages, states Marci Zaroff, ECOfashion pioneer and MetaWear Co-Founder and President.

MetaWear, located in a refurbished Verizon facility in Fairfax, VA, makes its promotional custom T-shirts for men and women using Fair Trade-certified organic cotton. In addition, the company uses SeaInk, a proprietary dye process that uses a seaweed-derived base with no harmful inputs including PVC, resins, or binders.

With SeaInk, MetaWear can avoid the harmful impact of standard dyes without sacrificing color vibrancy, says CAS Shiver, MetaWear Co-Founder and technical mastermind behind the ink development as well as the solar and geothermal energy practices the company employs.

In addition to being GOTS-certified, MetaWear produced the worlds first Cradle-to-Cradle Certified fashion T-shirt for leading lifestyle brand Under the Canopy also Founded by Ms. Zaroff. This T-shirt was unveiled at the Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation Institutes Fashion Positive launch, celebrating its newest program dedicated to the circular economy. The five categories of focus for C2C Certification include material health, material reuse, renewable energy, water stewardship, and social justice.

I am approached regularly by organizations seeking sustainable, domestically made solutions to their T-shirt needs, says Zaroff. Authenticity and transparency in the supply chain add value, and cheap, toxic T-shirts are no longer seen as acceptable. The days of conventional GMO cotton, plasticol inks, hazardous dyes, and exploited workers are over. Todays smart businesses want to make choices that resonate with their core values.

As a result, MetaWear provides GOTS-certified T-shirts to numerous organic food and beauty companies, and has just partnered with the Organic Trade Association (OTA), where Marci serves on the Board of Directors. OTA members get a 10 percent discount on screen-printed organic cotton T-shirts and in return, MetaWear donates a portion of the total sales to OTA.

MetaWear is on its way to revolutionizing the USA textile industry one GOTS-certified organic T-shirt at a time, states Zaroff.

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Indian exchequer lost Rs 2,500 crore due to bogus claims on organic farming: CCFI

Posted: March 16, 2015 at 10:50 pm


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Although most people believe that organic farming involves no use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers. But an investigation by the Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), an apex association of the Indian agrochemical industry that advances the cause of Indian farmers through better crop protection strategies, has unearthed just the opposite facts, claims the association. Information sourced by the CCFI under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has established that most farms claiming to be organic do use chemical pesticides regularly to protect their crops; yet they market and sell their produce under the 100% organic label. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, revealed its findings on pesticide residues in organic vegetables. According to Dr K K Sharma of the IARI laboratory, in the analysis, 33% of organic products, sold in Delhi over the last two years contained pesticides. In fact, the common vegetables which had tested positive at the IARI lab for pesticide residues include variety of fruits & vegetables. Although the maximum residue limit (MRL) is irrelevant to organic vegetables, it was genuinely shocking that the IARI's study showed that many organic vegetables carried pesticide residues far above the MRL set for vegetables. But, when the same IARI analysed 93,120 samples of conventional food from all over India, they found that the pesticides residues in them were only in 1.5%, whereas pesticide residues appeared in 3% (UK) and in 4% (Germany). With 3.1 % samples having pesticide residue, the UK government was very happy and declared that conventional fruits and vegetables were safe in the UK. According to the CCFI study, it was found that most of the organic farmers claimed that they do not use chemical fertilisers and pesticides but use manure as fertilisers and cow urine as insecticides. But it was revealed that before the harvest, to get rid of insects, they used chemical insecticides quite liberally to kill the live insects. According to a study funded by the Stanford University, eating organic food does not make you healthier. Dr Crystal Smith, a lead researcher of the study who looked at more than 200 samples of the content proved that organic food is not necessarily healthier than conventional food. When it came to nutritional content, the study found out that overall there were no clear differences between organic and conventional food. The findings corroborate those of the UK's Food Standards Agency, which commissioned a review a few years ago into organic food claims. There is no difference between organic and conventional foods, if youre an adult and making a decision based solely on your health, said a CCFI report. Government of India gives Rs 10000 per ha subsidy to so called organic farms. CCFI claims that the Indian exchequer has lost a whopping Rs 2,500 crore due to bogus claims on organic farming. According to its report on organic farming in India titled, Myths v/s facts: Organic farming published on November 4, 2014, the report points out how growth under organic farming has considerably slowed down across the globe and that less than 1% of agricultural land is currently under organic agriculture. Organic foods are not all that safe as they have been made out to be, claims CCFI. According to the German Health Authorities, bean sprouts from an organic farm in Germany had killed 31 people and infected a thousand more sometime from May to June in 2011, caused by an E. coli outbreakfrom the pig manure. According to Dr Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, it is the absence of chemical fertilisers which made the crops more susceptible to contamination caused by the bacteria originating from the pig manure. Consumers must not have forgotten about the alarming news concerning the New Delhi organic food retail outlet back home in India selling vegetables which contained much more pesticide residues. The next time you decide to go for organic food, don't be misguided by the heart, use your head, instead, said CCFI in a press statement.

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