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Tanessa Holt Barred From Breastfeeding, Serving Food At Farmer’s Markets
Posted: January 14, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Nova Scotia's department of agriculture is apologizing after one of its food specialists told a mother she could not breastfeed and handle food at a farmer's market.
Dartmouth resident Tanessa Holt started her organic food business Food Noise last fall, CBC News reported.
Half of her business comes from farmer's markets in Dartmouth, Halifax and Beaver Bank, she told the network, though she plans to open a permanent location on Portland Street in Dartmouth soon.
She brought her seven-and-a-half month old son Terek to market with her so she could breastfeed him.
But the provincial government put a stop to that Monday, telling Holt that she could not breastfeed at a booth without someone else present to serve food.
A food specialist with the province told her in an email that breastfeeding at a farmer's market booth creates issues around food safety, Metro News reported.
"I would not allow you to breastfeed and then serve customers throughout the day," the email said. "The food safety concern is contamination of food through possible throw up and or feces coming from the baby."
It went on to say that Holt would be allowed to breastfeed as long as someone else handled food.
Holt said on Facebook that the cost of hiring someone for a small business is "prohibitive."
"My husband is more than happy to sit at the market, but it's just not really a good situation," Holt told The Huffington Post Canada in a phone call Tuesday. "If I decide to go to a market, I have to nurse my son and then if for some reason we have to leave, then I'm leaving someone who is not me who does not know my food to sell my products, and I just don't think that's fair."
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Bhakta Prahlad School – Organic Food – Video
Posted: January 13, 2015 at 9:49 am
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Organic products still a luxury for most Czechs
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Organic food is still a luxury for most Czechs and although forty percent of people say they buy organic food items occasionally, organic products still make up only one percent of overall food sales. Agriculture Minister Marian Jureka blames the high mark-ups that supermarkets slap on bio products as they are known in the Czech Republic.
Photo: Kristna Makov Although organic farming has grown from just two farms in 1989 to around 4,000 today, organic farmers in this country are still fighting for their place in the sun. While in neighbouring Austria organic produce makes up approximately five percent of all produce sold on the market, in the Czech Republic it is still only around one percent. Although most supermarkets now sport a small select line of organic produce the price tag on the goods puts most shoppers off. Bio food is still presented as something exclusive and the profit margins supermarkets slap on them clearly reflect this. While in Germany or Austria organic food mark-ups make up from 10 to 30 percent of the price in the Czech Republic they can be 100 percent or more. One organic farmer complained to Czech Television that the game salami he sells for 100 crowns had been sold for three times as much by the supermarket chains he delivered it to. Consequently he is now trying to sell his own produce.
Sixty percent of Czechs who buy organic produce therefore head for a farmers market or have their own organic farmer somewhere in the vicinity. Increasingly there are also mobile phone applications which are able to locate the closest organic farm with information about what it offers or even the closest farm which has the particular product you are looking for.
A fifth of organic goods sold on the market are dairy products, second in line are fruit and vegs and third meat products which can be quite expensive. A third of consumers say they buy organic because the products taste better and are 100 percent fresh, approximately the same number of respondents said they appreciated the fact that they are pesticide-free and therefore healthier and 11 percent of respondents said they liked buying from a known and trusted source and appreciated that they could support a local farmer in this manner. The vast majority of people who do not buy organic or only very rarely said the main reason was the high price of goods which they could ill afford.
Agriculture Minister Marian Jureka says the way out of this bind is for consumers themselves to buy straight from organic farms or over the internet where possible, but he admits that it will be a long time before the Czech Republic can catch up with Germany or Austria in the range and price of organic food on offer. The ministrys autumn campaign in support of organic farming failed to make a significant difference.
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New EU regulation could curb organic farming
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As demand for organic products continues to grow among Europeans, the supply of sustainably manufactured and animal-friendly foods is struggling to keep up, experts indicate, warning that a new EU amendment could widen this gap. EurActiv Germany reports.
For several years, the market for organic food products has been booming and not only in Germany, the pioneer of organic farming. Europe has seen the market quadruple in size over the past decade.
According to EU numbers, around 5.5% of total farmland within the bloc is used for organic cultivation. But in recent years, the supply of organic products has not been able to satisfy growing demand.
Organic farming is associated with a greater cost than conventional agriculture techniques and at the same timeyields are lower and subject to more fluctuation.
And these paradoxes could become more severe, critics warn. Several even predict a declining trend in organic agriculture due to stricter EU regulations. Shortly after the Jean-Claude Juncker Commission took office in Brussels, incoming Agriculture Minister Phil Hogan announced his intention to rework the EUs Council Regulation on Organic Agriculture.
>>Read: EU reforms organic farming
In March 2014, the European Commission adopted legislative proposals for a new Regulation. The measure, which is expected to take effect in 2017, contains stricter rules for the production and import of organic products. As a result, it is likely to make it more difficult for conventional farmers to shift to organic agriculture practices, or even cause many organic producers to switch back to conventional farming.
More research instead of stricter regulation
In Germany, displeasure over the new guidelines is considerable. Already in October of last year, all party factions in the Bundestags Committee on Food and Agriculture expressed clear opposition to a complete overhaul of the EU Regulation.
Organic agriculture in Europe has already been progressing far too slowly, critics complained, saying chances for development should not be hindered by excessive legal barriers.
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Organic Food Markets in China: Analysis, Share, Research Report, Trends, Forecast, Growth, Size – Video
Posted: January 11, 2015 at 4:52 am
Organic Food Markets in China: Analysis, Share, Research Report, Trends, Forecast, Growth, Size
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5 Reasons Organic Food is a MENACE to Society! RTBP #8 – Video
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Organic Food Business – Video
Posted: January 10, 2015 at 8:50 am
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Organic food festival, Rajkot – Video
Posted: January 8, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Organic food festival, Rajkot
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Frenchs Forest Organic Food and Farmers Market – Video
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Amber Lambke on Growing Organic Food at Lift360’s “Together: Leading Positive Change” Conference – Video
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Amber Lambke on Growing Organic Food at Lift360 #39;s "Together: Leading Positive Change" Conference
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