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...benefits of breast-feeding are many and varied. Studies suggest that breast-fed kids are smarter, taller, thinner, healthier and less stressed than babies on bottles. Plus, breast-feeding helps moms bond with their babies and may even lower their blood pressure. So, is there anything breast milk can't do? Apparently, yes, according to a new study published Tuesday by BMJ Online: It doesn't offer infants much defense against asthma or allergies...
Cornucopia's first complaint, filed in January 2005, alleged that the Platteville, Colo., farm owned by Aurora Organic Dairy, one of the nation's largest organic milk producers, confined thousands of organic cows in factory-like conditions with little access to pasture for grazing. Cornucopia followed up with two other complaints regarding Aurora's operations...
Last year, Cornucopia issued its first organic dairy industry "report card," grading about 70 producers and brands on a scale of one to five "cows." High marks went to small organic milk-producing operations like the family farm Organic Pastures, near Fresno, Calif., which has donated money to Cornucopia and supplies milk to Whole Foods. Organic Pastures received a "five cow," or "outstanding," rating. Large brands like Whole Foods' private-label 365 organic milk got ratings of "good," but with "questionable long-term commitment to organics." Cornucopia says it later upgraded Whole Foods' rating to a four-cow, or "excellent...
After Cornucopia issued its report card, the Organic Consumers Association e-mailed some 380,000 organic food devotees calling for a boycott of Horizon milk. Dozens of food co-ops pulled the milk from their shelves. Horizon responded with ads in publications popular with organic-food advocates, like the Utne Reader, showing cows grazing in lush fields. Scalzo says, however, the boycott barely affected his company's sales, and that activists like Kastel cast doubt on the entire organic-food movement. "This is eroding consumer confidence in the business, this industry and the family farms he's a self-proclaimed...
Kastel scoffs at criticism that he's out to get big organic producers. "We should welcome corporate investments - it's only good for organics if they subscribe to the same foundational premise that's made this economically successful," he says. Now, he's looking beyond organic milk - to chicken, wheat and soybeans. "There's a higher authority than the USDA," Kastel says. "And that's the consumer...