Not so long ago, summers at Vermont’s Lake Carmi didn’t mean fighting for water quality. And it was only about 100 years ago that Lake Carmi was called Silver Lake, a reflection of its purity at the time. But those
Ben & Jerry’s announced Monday that their company was taking steps to respond to growing consumer pressure to clean up the sourcing of their ingredients. The changes announced are twofold: a move away from glyphosate-dried crops and a new product
To: Vermont Public Radio, Jane Lindholm, Ric Cengeri, Sam Gale Rosen, Mitch Wertlieb, Patti Daniels We write with serious concerns about the extreme lack of objectivity shown by Vermont Public Radio in its handling of the dairy discussion that took
By Michael Colby Regeneration Vermont has spent the last seven months reviewing both federal and state data on the growing problem that is antibiotic-infected dairy and dairy-derived meat products (more than half the U.S. meat supply now comes from culled
Vermont’s large-farm dairy industry is under increasing scrutiny for a variety of economic, ecological, and humanitarian transgressions. Ben & Jerry’s, for example, was recently the subject of a New York Times exclusive that reported on the
Regeneration Vermont: The New York Times is exposing the fact that RoundUp herbicide has been found in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. We are not surprised. We have been sounding the alarm about the dangerous trends in the Vermont dairy
Originally published in Counterpunch by Michael Colby. It was twenty years ago last month that Food & Water published our report on Vermont’s atrazine addiction, a toxic herbicide that is banned in Europe but continues to be used in abundance
Also published in Alternet. The proposed remarriage of two agrochemical giants with dark histories promises more bad things. Fifty years ago, the Monsanto and Bayer corporations were forced to separate in order to avoid violating basic antitrust regulations. U.S. courts
Originally published in Mercy For Animals by Joe Loria According to MSN, a new report by the International Joint Commission (IJC) found that the Great Lakes need more protection from factory farm runoff. The IJC, an organization responsible for preventing and
Also published in the VTDigger By Will Allen and Michael Colby It’s no secret that the conventional dairy industry is in a deep, downward spiral, decades in the making. This is largely the result of a commodity-based pricing scheme that
