Laura Klein is in my kitchen today, talking about the blessings behind food allergies, her sweet tooth, and the environmental concerns on her mind. Why is living organic important to you? Organic living is important to me because we are overexposed to too many toxic chemicals on a daily basis that lead to serious health […]
Organic Issues
Jillian Michaels: Our Food System Is Set Up to Fail
By guest blogger and leading health-and-wellness expert Jillian Michaels Here’s a statistic for you: One dollar will buy you 1,200 calories of processed garbage that will likely make you fat or sick, or both. Conversely, that same buck will only nab you 250 calories of healthy food (fruits, vegetables, organic meat, whole grains) that can […]
Top 10 Ways to Make Organic More Sexy
On Friday, I wrote about the controversy over whether organic is sexy or not. Today, I am going to share some ideas on how to ramp up the sexy quotient of the whole industry, so that even farmers in Nebraska will want to climb on our tractor! Which leads me to my first idea: 1. […]
Is Organic Sexy? Let’s Vote!
I was sitting in the German headquarters of Unilever a few weeks ago—it’s an incredible eco-building that is very modern and cool-looking—and was talking to their head of supply chain. He was lamenting that the reason consumers don’t buy more organic products is “because organic’s not sexy enough.” Think about that for a minute. Everyone […]
Why Modern Organic Farming Is The Only Thing That Can Feed The World: Reasons 4 and 5 of 5
Monday: Why Modern Organic Farming Is The Only Thing That Can Feed The World, Reason 1 of 5 Wednesday: Why Modern Organic Farming Is The Only Thing That Can Feed The World, Reasons 2 and 3 of 5 Reason # 4: Modern organic farming protects our health. When I first started researching Organic Manifesto, I […]
Why Modern Organic Farming Is the Only Thing That Can Feed the World: Reasons 2 and 3 of 5
Monday: 5 Reasons Why Modern Organic Farming Is the Only Thing That Can Feed the World, Part 1. Reason # 2: Modern organic farming works better The scientific studies done by the Farming Systems Trial at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania, and validated around the world by other researchers and farmers, show beyond a doubt […]
Why Modern Organic Farming Is the Only Thing That Can Feed the World: Reason 1 of 5
Last month I was invited to be the keynote speaker at BioFach, the European organic trade show. They asked me to speak about if, and how, organic food and farming can feed the world. This week, I will be sharing my speech with you in three parts (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). Of course, the answer […]
An Open Letter to President Obama
Dear President Obama, I have been a devoted supporter of your presidency up until now. But by allowing the complete deregulation of GMO/GE alfalfa, and now sugar beets, you have unleashed another wave of UNCONTAINABLE contamination on this planet. These toxic crops not only exist so that companies like Monsanto can make more money by […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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