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Sustainable Business

05.18.2005
USDA Announces $6 Million for Small-scale/Limited Resources Farmers Initiative
From USDA

05.18.2005
USDA Tobacco Buyout Program Extends Through June 17, 2005
From USDA

05.18.2005
University of Arkansas Starts Farming Program for Indian Women
From USDA

01.27.2005
Colleges Buying More Food From Farmers
From Associated Press

08.10.2004
Caterer turns the tables
By Rukmini Callimachi, From The Associated Press

08.04.2004
Trinity bans biotech farming
Rural county becomes only second in U.S. to take a stand against genetic engineering.
By Mike Lee, Bee Staff Writer

01.11.2004
A Short-Order Revolutionary
By Russell Shorto

12.10.2003
Food Buyer's New Policy Seeks to Protect Human Health from Antibiotic Overuse
Source: GreenBiz.com

8.20.2003
Redesigning Restaurants
E/The Environmental Magazine
By Jaime deBlanc-Knowles

10.23.2002
Restaurateurs find doing right thing feeds bottom line 'Sustainability' has green and social benefits
SF Chronicle
By Janet Fletcher, Chronicle Staff Writer


Marine Ecosystems

8.25.2004
E.P.A. Says Mercury Taints Fish Across U.S.
By Michael Janofsky, from NY Times

6.22.2004
California sues three tuna makers on product warning law
By Reuters

5.06.2004
Wild salmon prices boosted by campaigns promoting health, taste, environment
By Jeff Barnard, From Associated Press

12.03.2003
Five countries set up team to tackle illegal fishing
By Associated Press

11.21.2003
Globalization's catch: Shrimp industry threatens communities and ecosystems worldwide.
By Rebecca Robbins
From Environmental News Network

08.22.2003
Two Companies Launch New MSC-Labeled Seafood Products
Source GreenBiz.com

07.16.2003
Other Fish in the Sea, But For How Long?
By Janet Larsen

06.27.2003
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partners compile a fish-barrier database
By Ken Burton
From Environmental News Network

12.09.2002
Fish Farms Become Feedlots of the Sea
Like cattle pens, the salmon operations bring product to market cheaply. But harm to ocean life and possibly human health has experts worried.
Los Angeles Times
By Kenneth R. Weiss


Public Health

12.27.2004
California Farmers have until Year's End
to Turn in Plans to Clean the Air
By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press

07.01.2004
Faced With New Air Standards,
California's Earthbound Farmers Are Wary
From NY Times, By Carol Pogash

06.22.2004
Rocket fuel found in milk in California
Not clear if amount imperils children
By Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer

04.09.2004
Lawyers Shift Focus From Big Tobacco to Big Food
From NY Times, by Kate Zernike

03.06.2004
Junk Food One-Third of US Diet, Study Finds
From Reuters

02.09.2004
Mercury Damage Seen in Children of Fish Eaters
From Reuters, by Maggie Fox

01.21.2004
The high price of cheap food
From LA Times, By Emily Green, Times Staff Writer

01.16.2004
U.S. Says It Will Contest WHO Plan to Fight Obesity But Claim of Faulty Science Is Rejected by Nutritionists
By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer

01.09.2004
Toxic risks in farmed salmon -- consumers told to be wary Study finds PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, probably from diet
By Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment Writer

01.09.2004
Farmed salmon loaded with chemicals, study confirms
By Maggie Fox, Reuters

01.09.2004
American Public Health Association urges moratorium on new factory farms
Pollution, health and economic impacts cited as main reasons
From AHPA

01.11.2004
Cattle Futures?
By Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine

11.19.2003
Hepatitis A outbreak tied to imported food
By Anita Manning and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY

Summary ? PCBs in farmed salmon
From Environmental Working Group

07.16.2003
Animal fats linked with breast cancer in U.S. study
By Maggie Fox, Reuters

07.02.2003
U.S. FDA takes a closer look at mad cow feed ban
By Randy Fabi, Reuters

07.02.2003
Kraft promises to take healthier approach to food
School sales to cease, portions to be smaller, items more nutritional
By Kim Severson, Chronicle Staff Writer

07.02.2003
Public school soda-sale ban advances
Bill covers all grades up to secondary level
By Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

06.26.2003
FDA unlikely to seek labels on cloned animal meat, milk
By Randy Fabi, Reuters

06.20.2003
McDonald's takes a stand against antibiotics in meat. Fast-food chain tells suppliers to phase out routine use of drugs
By Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer

04.23.2003
Want Drugs With Those Fries?
By Michael Khoo a Washington representative with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

04.22.2003
WHO attacks US sugar lobby
From BBC

04.14.2003
Where’s the beef (from)?
By Noel C. Paul Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

03.17.2003
More Evidence--Pesticides Cause Brain Damage
Genetic Link Found for Pesticides, ADHD, Gulf War Syndrome
By Environmental News Service

01.2003
Weighing In on Obesity
By Rosanna Mentzer Morrison, Economics Editor
ERS FoodReview No. 25-3. January 2003

01.14.2003
Widely Used Crop Herbicide Is Losing Weed Resistance
By Andrew Pollack

01.12.2003
'Fat Land': Supersizing America
By Michael Pollan

01.03.2003
Pepsi's New Challenge
The beverage and snack giant has grown huge by making the rest of us fat. Now it's coming out with "healthy" foods. Clever preemption--or hypocrisy?
Forbes Magazine
By Melanie Wells

10.20.2002
New national standards for organically grown food.

05.2002
How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture
By Leo Horrigan, Robert S. Lawrence, and Polly Walker


Food Security

2.4.05
Rural Poor Struggle to Find Healthy Food
By J.M. Hirsch, Associated Press Writer

7.25.04
Fresh produce presented in cultural context
State's black farmers hold special events for history month
By Jason B. Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

6.22.04
Groups Chide U.S. Response to Mad Cow
By John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer

7.11.03
Universities to Share Patented Work on Crops
By Andrew Pollack

Read the California Fact Sheet from Greenpeace
New Gene-Altered Crops Tested in California: One Billion in Export Markets Threatened.
Greenpeace.org.

9.19.02
Experts Warn on Food Supply Threat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, This article from NYTimes.com


Environment

1.31.06
EPA Strikes Pollution Deal with Factory-Style Animal Farms
By John Heilprin, Associated Press

5.9.05
Dairy Cows Pass Gas, but How Much?
By Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee

12.30.04
Lodi, California Winery to Be Solar-Powered
By Bruce Spence, The Record

12.28.04
Study Shows Federal Water Subsidies Go to Largest Farms
By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press

8.16.04
Biotech bans finally arouse farm industry
Opposition gears up to fight county ballot measures.
By Mike Lee, Bee Staff Writer

7.3.04
Eating close to home, from our backyard to bioregion
By Georgeanne Brennan, Special to The Chronicle

7.3.04
Sustainable agriculture is more than organic methods
By Deborah K. Rich, Special to The Chronicle

6.29.04
Pollution rules targeting manure could force dairies to relocate
By Tim Molloy, Associated Press

6.22.04
Monsanto withdraws GMO wheat from all but U.S. FDA
By Roberta Rampton, Reuters

6.11.04
Mendocino's GMO vote sparks action
By SustainableBusiness.com

5.14.04
270 cows generating electricity for farm
Methane digester also breaks down waste
By Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronicle Staff Writer

5.13.04
California water district approves plan to pay farmers for irrigation water
By Tim Molloy, Associated Press

5.2004
Silent Winter?
by Claire Hope Cummings
Excerpted from the May/ June 2004 WORLD WATCH magazine

4.30.2004
Panel OKs bid to raise modified rice
By Mike Lee, Bee Staff Writer

4.10.2004
Biotech's plan to plant rice here blocked for now
By Terri Somers, Union-Tribune Staff Writer

4.03.2004
Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops
First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming
By Mike Geniella, From The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA)

12.09.2003
Monsanto quietly readies gene-modified wheat
By Reuters

07.24.2003
U.S. House backs 2-year delay in food-origin labels Tuesday
By Charles Abbott, From Reuters

07.11.2003
Sowing Seeds of Destruction
By Charles M. Benbrook

06.20.2003
U.S. to file WTO case on E.U. biotech after talks fail
By Richard Cowan, Reuters

06.10.2003
USDA Gives Farmers Incentives to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Impacts
Source: Greenbiz.com


Research/Practice

08.01.2004
Report: Five-year deal with Novartis hurt UC Berkeley
By Edie Lau, Bee Science Writer

01.11.2004
Biotech critics at risk Economics calls the shots in the debate
By Mark Dowie, From sfgate.com

06.29.2003
Sowing seeds of change
'Sustainable' farming and its environmental concerns get new push at UC Davis
By Mike Lee, Bee Staff Writer

California at the Crossroads: The Impacts of Genetic Engineering on California’s Agriculture.,
By Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, Greenpeace.org

01.09.2003
Providing Proteins to the Poor
Genetically Engineered Potatoes vs Amaranth and Pulses
By Dr. Vandana Shiva


Worker Rights

01.04.2004
Agricultural Workers of California: Health Fact Sheet
By University of California

2.21.2003
Farmworker Women and Pesticides in California's Central Valley (Report)
By Margaret Reeves and Terra Murphy (PANNA), and
Teresa Calvo Morales (Líderes Campesinas)

9.18.2002
Pesticide Safety Laws Fail to Protect Farmworkers State Agency Confirms Widespread Under-Enforcement, Many Poisonings Result from By-the-Book Use
PANNA
By Margaret Reeves, PANNA
Anne Katten, CRLAF
Martha Guzm?, UFW


Animal Welfare

7.2004
Crimes Unseen: Can consumers rewrite the dark and brutal story of America's big slaughterhouses?
by Dena Jones, from Orion Magazine

4.28.2004
California takes a step toward banning foie gras
By Reuters

8.22.2003
Chefs in stew over foie gras
Some rethink menu after violence over controversial fare
SF Chronicle
By Kim Severson, Chronicle Staff Writer


Rural Communities

11.02.2004
California Town Known for Roses Fears Scent of Another Kind
By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press

12.16.2003
Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Foods, Survey Says
Source: GreenBiz.com

04.01.2003
CALIFORNIA'S RURAL ECONOMY
Feast or famine on the farm
While hard times ravage grape growers, nic he players thrive
By Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer


Food Culture

7.31.2004
Think Global, Eat Local
From Los Angeles Times Magazine, By Jim Robbins

10.27.2004
A Food Festival, Coffee to Caterpillars
From the NY Times, By Dana Bowen

06.08.2004
Moveable Feast
From Businessweek, By Thane Peterson

03.07.2004
Food Fighter
By Peggy Orenstein, from NYTimes Magazine


Farm/Ranch Viability

09.21.2004
Sell in Bulk, Lose Farm.
Sell Locally, and Watch Revenues Grow.
By Keith Schneider, From NY Times

08.12.2004
Survey shows most organic farmers say prices are holding steady, some predict rise
By Bilen Mesfin, From Associated Press

04.29.2004
California farmers struggle with new rules on runoff pollution
By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press

07.24.2003
Ex-tobacco farmers kick the habit and go organic
By E/The Environmental Magazine

04.16.2003
EPA plan would cut air pollution in Central Valley Strict new rules for diesel construction, farm machinery.
By Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer