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In The News

Dr. Benbrook Goes to Iowa- Part II

Posted on May 15, 2018 in In The News, Pesticides | 341 Views | 1 Response
In the second of two talks in Iowa this week, Hygeia’s founder Dr. Charles Benbrook shared our latest dynamic presentation, “Managing Weeds for Healthy Kids: Emerging Challenges for Physicians, Families, and Farmers” at the Ames Public Library in Ames, IA. This presentation takes a closer look at the wealth of data demonstrating a clear rising […]

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We Talk Herbicides and Health Risks in the Land of Corn and Soybeans

Posted on May 15, 2018 in In The News, Pesticides | 615 Views | Leave a response
Dr. Charles Benbrook attended the Pesticides and Public Health in Iowa 2018 Networking Meeting in Iowa City on May 14, 2018 to present the latest science on the health impacts of rising herbicide use in their state. The meeting, hosted by the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, the University of Northen Iowa, and Iowa […]

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Washington State Says “No” to Neonics for Oyster Industry

Posted on April 12, 2018 in Environmental Impacts, In The News, Pesticides | 567 Views | Leave a response
The Washington State Department of Ecology has once again denied the use of the neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid on coastal shellfish beds, as reported in the Seattle Times. A association of oyster growers based out of Willapa Bay in southwest Washington have been fighting since 2015 to be allowed to use imidacloprid to combat an infestation of burrowing shrimp, […]

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Washington State Bans Farming of Non-Native Salmon

Posted on March 27, 2018 in Animals, Environmental Impacts, In The News | 193 Views | Leave a response
In March 2018 Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington state, signed into law a bill that will end farming of non-native Atlantic salmon in the state’s marine waters, as reported by NPR’s food blog The Salt. The move follows the failure of a net-pen aquaculture operation that buckled in strong currents (see the Seattle Times photo, right) on […]

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“Scientific American” Chimes in on Nutrient Decline

Posted on March 19, 2018 in In The News, Organic | 727 Views | Leave a response
The oldest running monthly magazine in the US and one of the staples of popular science highlighted the declining nutritional value of American produce in a 2011 blog post called “Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?” Here at Hygeia we are a part of this discussion, having  recently created a new Nutrient […]

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The Organic Livestock and Poultry Practice Rule Becomes Trump Admin Roadkill

Posted on March 13, 2018 in Animals, In The News, Organic | 1,566 Views | 1 Response
It is now official, the USDA has withdrawn the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) rule, as of May 13, 2018. This action will close one chapter and begin the next in a long-running conflict withing the organic community, and between it and the USDA. The USDA is justifying its actions primarily by pointing to […]

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Dicamba Update – Document Review Shows EPA Used Monsanto Science to Justify Reducing Buffer Requirements

Posted on March 9, 2018 in GMOs, In The News, Pesticides, Scientific Integrity | 252 Views | Leave a response
In the latest in the ongoing saga of the new dicamba-tolerant crops and their herbicides that won’t stay where they are sprayed, a document review investigation by the St-Louis Post Dispatch reveals that Monsanto’s own science played a key role in how the use restrictions were set. EPA had originally proposed a larger, more comprehensive, […]

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2007 Ethanol Mandate Deemed a ‘Well-Intended Flop,” Politicans Seek a Fix to the Renewable Fuel Standard

Posted on March 9, 2018 in Environmental Impacts, In The News | 282 Views | Leave a response
We have all seen the signs on the gasoline pumps proudly proclaiming “Contains Ethanol.”  The U.S. gas supply includes this biofuel derived from corn due a bill passed in 2007, the Renewable Fuel Standard.  It mandates that the nation’s gasoline contains a certain portion of corn-based ethanol, courtesy of America’s heartland. At the time, politicians […]

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Following Purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon Goes “Full Throttle” into the Grocery Business

Posted on March 9, 2018 in In The News, Organic | 137 Views | Leave a response
When Amazon, the king of online retail, bought Whole Foods for $13 billion in 2017, many saw a future of on-demand delivery of affordable organic produce and packaged foods.  Financial disclosures revealed in Amazon’s 2017 annual report demonstrate that the company is betting on this future too, in the form of a huge investment in […]

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General Mills to Convert 34,000 Acres to Organic Wheat Production in a Smokin’ Hot Deal

Posted on March 7, 2018 in In The News, Organic | 456 Views | Leave a response
When General Mills bought the beloved organic food company Annie’s Homegrown  in 2014 for $820 million cash, many wondered what this would mean for the future of one of the organic food industry’s iconic brands. When the deal went down, Jeff Harmening, the Chief Operating Officer for General Mills, told the New York Times that […]

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