There is no mystery to the dramatic struggles taking place in most of rural American, including Vermont. The plan was to consolidate farms, forcing expansion or extinction, all while green-lighting corporate monopolies in each and every sector. Mission accomplished. In
Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture took what some legislators are calling “a sneaky route” in its attempts to eliminate the pesticide-usage progress reports that are required to be filed annually by the state’s Pesticide Advisory Council (VPAC). Tucked deep in an
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is seeking to limit access to pesticide usage data, thus threatening both the public’s right to know and the Vermont Pesticide Advisory Council’s (VPAC) ability to act. It’s urgent that Vermonters contact their legislators now
[The following are excerpts from John Dillon's full report on Vermont Public Radio about a federal court's ruling against Ben & Jerry's, allowing the consumer deception suit against them to move forward.] A court has refused to dismiss legal claims
Victory! A federal court has ruled in favor of consumer and environmental advocates claiming that Ben & Jerry’s is deceiving consumers about the quality of its products and treatment of dairy cows. Specifically, the Superior Court of the District of
Regeneration Vermont’s Michael Colby recently spent an hour with Steve Judge and Alyssa Hartman of “The New Dairy Show” discussing – you guessed it – Vermont’s dairy crisis. The discussion provides a good summary of the investigative work of RegenVt,
As early as 1996, the state knew that it had a problem with the use of the herbicides atrazine and simazine (both used on feed corn). Both were suspected to cause alteration in the sex of smallmouth bass and
Our latest deep dive into the impacts of Vermont’s large-farm dairies focused on the extensive use of antibiotics within these confinement operations, and the Ag Agency’s “look away” approach to addressing the threat of on-farm pharmaceutical overuse, which gives rise
Despite calls from health professionals worldwide to curb the use of farm-animal antibiotics, Vermont’s conventional dairy industry -- dominated by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) – continues to use the antimicrobial drugs extensively, including non-therapeutic uses to prevent diseases caused
The great poet and sage, Gary Snyder, wrote: “When making an axe handle, the pattern is not far off.” And so it is with reforming agriculture. The pattern is not far off. It was only 60 years ago that Vermont
