USDA Supports Expansion of “Organic” Hydroponically-Grown Food, Threatening...
Update: This Daily News is updated to address the organic status of the company cited in the piece, Merchant’s Garden. The article now indicates that the company is certified as organic under a...
View ArticleComment Period Ends Today: Advocates Say USDA Needs Organic Certifier...
(Beyond Pesticides, January 22, 2024) Today, Monday, January 22, is the last day for public comment on a three-year extension of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (through its Agricultural Marketing...
View ArticleUSDA Pesticide Data Program Continues to Mislead the Public on Pesticide...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 15, 2024) The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pesticide residue report, the 32nd Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary report, released in January, finds...
View ArticleTake Action: Federal Food Program Asked to Stop Feeding Children Pesticides...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 4, 2024) With 14.7 million children and adolescents in the U.S. recognized as obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the established connection with...
View ArticleGetting Toxics Out of Food Production and Communities Requires Strong Organic...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 18, 2024) Comments are due by 11:59 pm EDT on April 3, 2024. Organic standard setting provides for democratic input, full transparency, and continuous improvement. The current...
View ArticleData Supports Need to Transition Away from Plastics and Pesticides with...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 25, 2024) Because of their widespread infiltration into the environment and the bodies of all organisms, including humans, plastics contamination requires a holistic strategy...
View ArticleAdvocates Seek To Keep Organic on the Cutting Edge of Change for a...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 1, 2024) Comments are due 11:59 pm EDT, Wednesday, April 3. For the public comment period—deadline Wednesday, April 3—in the lead up to the National Organic Standard Board...
View ArticlePrivate Capital Invests in “Regenerative Organic” Agriculture
(Beyond Pesticides, April 2, 2024) There is a nascent capital investment effort in the transition to certified organic agriculture beginning to take hold across the U.S., something advocates say is...
View ArticleChemical-Intensive Practices in Florida Citrus Lead to Harm and Collapse, as...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 11, 2024) Scientists are moving forward in testing an agroecological method of “push-pull” pest management (reducing the attractiveness of the target organism and luring pest...
View ArticleEPA Issues Warning to Farmworkers Instead of Regulating a Highly Hazardous...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 15, 2024) At first, some thought this was an April Fools’ announcement by pranksters like the YES men. Put out an announcement pretending to be the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleEPA Draft Herbicide Strategy Update Further Weakens Plan to Protect...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 24, 2024) On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted an “update” to the Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework (Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework to...
View ArticlePesticide Residues in Food Do Not Tell the Full Story on Hazards Associated...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 1, 2024) According to a new analysis by Consumer Reports, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary has once again failed to...
View ArticleCR Analysis Finds Pesticide Exposure and Hazards Persist, Despite...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 6, 2024) The pattern of failure to protect the public from pesticides is again brought to public attention by an analysis by Consumer Reports (CR) that effectively updates its...
View ArticleWeed Killers Dicamba and 2,4-D Found in Pregnant Women in Midwest USA, Linked...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 21, 2024) In a first-of-its kind series of biomonitoring studies published in Agrochemicals, researchers identified the presence of the herbicides dicamba and 2,4-D in all...
View ArticleTo Make Regenerative Meaningful, It Must Require Organic Certification as a...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 28, 2024) Public comments are due May 29, 2024. With 40 percent of all vegetables grown in the U.S. coming from the state of California, the current state level process to...
View ArticleHouse Farm Bill Moves Out of Agriculture Committee Undermines Health,...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 30, 2024) The House Agriculture Committee voted 33-21 on May 23 to move the Farm, Food, and National Security Act out of committee after a contentious markup and onslaught of...
View ArticleGovernment Report Pushes Genetically Engineered Crops, Despite Failure and...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 31, 2024) Among the many promises that have been made by agribusiness to farmers and consumers, the glories of crops genetically engineered (GE) to resist pests stand out. GE...
View ArticleHouse Agriculture Farm Bill Escalates Climate Disasters then Requires...
(Beyond Pesticides, June 3, 2024) Environmental advocates continue to raise concerns about the Farm Bill (H.R.8467—Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024) that emerged from the House Agriculture...
View ArticleFederal Framework Seeks to Accelerate Adoption of Genetically Engineered (GE)...
(Beyond Pesticides, June 10, 2024) Expanding the planting of genetically engineered crops is the major focus of “The Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology – Plan for Regulatory...
View ArticleJuneteenth 2024–Taking Action to Fight Disproportionate Adverse Effects to...
Calls for Holistic Environmental Justice and a Shift Away from Societal Dependence on Petrochemical Pesticides and Fertilizers (Beyond Pesticides, June 18-19, 2024) Juneteenth (June 19) commemorates...
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