Originally published in the VTDigger by Mike Polhamus. Pleasant Valley Farms built one of the state’s largest farming operations last year, in one of Vermont’s most polluted watersheds, without a permit, according to documents obtained by VTDigger. The only action taken
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
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
By Will Allen and Michael Colby The great divide between the well-marketed image of Vermont dairy farming and its stark and toxic realities is becoming harder and harder to ignore. The marketing shows healthy cows grazing on lush pastures. But
The history of Vermont’s heavy adoption of industrial – or degenerative – forms of agriculture is also the history of its failure and decline. At every stage, beginning with chemical agriculture in the post-WWII era, the new techniques being promoted
