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Organic Farming at Snowville Creamery

BlogNews ( ) Originally published by the Organic & Non-GMO Report by Ken Roseboro Snowville Creamery’s Warren Taylor creates model to increase non-GMO feed supply as a way to convert to organic farming and eliminate GMOs. Snowville Creamery, based in…
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Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight: Pure Èire Dairy

BlogNews ( ) As part of our Farmer-Grower series we interviewed Jill Smith, a dairywoman who is most definitely doing milk right. Jill owns and operates Pure Èire Dairy located in Othello, Washington. The name Èire is a bit of a play on words as it literally…
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Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight: Straus Family Creamery

BlogNews ( ) In continuing our Farmer-Grower series, where we celebrate those who engage in sustainable agriculture, we interviewed Albert Straus, a dairyman who is revolutionizing what it means to operate a sustainable dairy. In addition to the dairy, Albert…
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Sabra Hummus: Stop Mixing in the GMOs

BlogNews ( ) Sabra has a secret: its hummus contains soybean oil that is likely genetically engineered (GMO).
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Concerns About Industrialized Dairy Operations

BlogNews ( ) Industrialized dairy operations are rife with problems, from GMOs to greenhouse gas emissions. What can be done about it?
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Big Chocolate Is an $83 Billion Industry. Choose Fair Trade Chocolate Instead

BlogNews ( ) The global chocolate industry commands more than $83 billion annually, but how much of this gets back to the farmers? Since most chocolate on US store shelves comes from West Africa, Green America has been persistently pressuring US cocoa…
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Spotlight on Hershey and Child Labor, Two Years Later

BlogNews ( ) Two years ago, Hershey announced it would source ethically certified cocoa, free of child labor, by 2020.
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DON'T HAVE A COW: The 10-Day Local Food Challenge

BlogNews ( ) My oldest daughter a few years ago at what she calls "the Pumpkin Cart of Honesty," in which a neighbor grows pumpkins and simply sets them out on a cart with a cash box and trusts that people will pay for what they take.…
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DON’T HAVE A COW: How Bad is Beef?

BlogNews ( ) “All animals are equal,” Orwell’s pigs proclaim in the novel Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” I've always loved this quote and the round-about ways the pigs describe their own special status. But lately while…
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Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight: Chopping Block Farm

BlogNews ( ) Green America and GMO Inside are pleased to announce our new Farmer-Grower Initiative. Through this new initiative, we are expanding collaboration with farmers, growers, and garden educators across the US to highlight and celebrate the work of…
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GREEN YOUR SCHOOL: Cornell University’s Dump and Run program

BlogNews ( ) As students start getting ready to go back to school, some of them are also getting ready to embark upon a new year of greening their campuses. Green America editorial fellow Sari Amiel discovered five inspiring examples of how students are making…
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People’s Climate March – Sept. 21

BlogNews ( ) Slated to be the largest climate rally in history: we’re hitting the streets of NYC at the People’s Climate March to demand that our world leaders take substantive and immediate action on climate change. Record-breaking temperatures.…
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GMO Inside: With a Social Media Policy Like Smuckers, a Comment Has To Be Good … Or It’s Gone

Press Release ( ) Company Spending $640,000 to Block Consumers’ Right to Know If GMOs Are In Food Also Censors Consumers Talking About GMOs on Social Media November 3, 2014 WASHINGTON D.C - November 3, 2014 - Green America’s GMO Inside campaign is calling out the…
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Green America: Apple Takes First Steps to Protect Workers from Toxins

Press Release ( ) Apple responds to over 23,000 comments from concerned consumers. More needs to be done to protect workers. August 14, 2014 Washington, DC – August 14, 2014 –Green America announced today that it is pleased with Apple’s August 13 announcement that…
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Green America in the News

In FORBES: How To Eat For The Climate

Green America in the News ( ) Consumers have unrealized power to steer the close marriage between agriculture and the climate toward healthier outcomes, according to food-policy activists at the Green Festival in Chicago Saturday. Agriculture is particularly vulnerable…
Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2014/10/27/foods-that-fight-climate-ch…

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Hershey Commits to Child Labor Certification

Victories ( ) Hershey announced yesterday it will be going 100% certified by 2020. Hershey will utilize three different certification systems -- Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and Utz.  All three prohibit child labor, which is endemic in the cocoa…
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Stop GE Wheat

Campaign ( ) Take action: Sign our petition to block GE wheat! The introduction of genetically engineered wheat will threaten the environment, the world’s food supply, and our economy. For 8,000 years, wheat has served as a staple crop for humankind. Today…
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