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• Facts and Data on Antibiotics and Factory Farming
• Fatal Harvest: Myth 2: Industrial Food is Safe, Health, and Nutritious - Foundation For Deep Ecology Jul02
• Selected charts from USDA Family Farm Report 2001 - ERS Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 768 May01
• The Green Revolution: A Critical Look
• Monoculture - Kirk Lumpkin / Co-Hearing 1983.

New USDA Organic Label effective as of 21 October 2002

• Amazonian Farming: The Secret of El Dorado BBC2 19dec02

• PETA & Robbins Seek End to 'Happy Cows' Ads  - AP 11dec02

• Pastoral Poverty: The Seeds of Decline  - NY Times 8dec02

• Professor Warns Framers: Not Only Current Food System Needs Change But Whole Global Economic Organization  -  The Grand Island Independent (NB) 7dec02

• Canadian Study Shows Structural Adjustment of Ag Policies Reap Devastating Effects for Farmers  - The Agribusiness Examiner  2dec02

• Ag Scientists Feel the Heat  - Des Moines Register 1dec02

• On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity - Vandana Shiva / ZNet 1dec02

• A Global Village: Who has the higher ‘standard of living’ -  Ram's Horn n.207, Dec02

• Food Travels Between 1,500 and 2,500 Miles From Farm to Table - Environment News Service (ENS) 21nov2002

• Bayer Corporation Urged to Drop Poultry Antibiotic  - ENS 19nov02

• USDA Requests Stay On Court Ruling That Would End the Pork Checkoff AgWeb.com Editors 13nov02

• California: State's Wine Industry Establishes Guidelines to Protect Environment  - Wall Street Journal 23oct02

• How Agricultural Subsidies in Rich Countries Hurt Poor Nations  - Wole Akande (Nigeria) / YellowTimes.org 19oct02

• The Racket of Farm Subsidies  - AgBioIndia 15oct02

• Two Acres of Farm Lost to Sprawl Each Minute  - NY Times 4oct02

• Methyl Bromide Drift from Non-Organic Farm Sickens Workers at Nearby Organic Farm - SF Chronicle 18sep02

• Dig Deeper than Discrimination - Editorial / CropChoice 5sep02

• Feedlot Perils Outpace Regulation  - NY Times 13aug02

• Detasseling, a Midwest Rite Of Passage, Faces Extinction  - Wall Street Journal 9aug02

• Dubious US Stand on Farm Trade - AgBioIndia 8aug02

• Drug genes could enter food chain  - New Scientist 6jul02

• Grass Roots Revolution: Will the New Beef put Corn-Raised Cattle Out to Pasture?-  SF Chronicle 19jun02

• Uptake of Trace Elements and PAHs by Fruit and Vegetables from Contaminated Soils - Environmental Science & Technology 12jun02

• Ecological Farming: Reducing Hunger and Meeting Environmental Goals  - Worldwatch Institute / World Summit Policy Brief n.6, 11jun02

• Organic Farming Facts -  Organic Trade Association (OTA) Jun02

• Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming - Science 31may02

• Take Precautions against Heavy Metals in the Soil  -  Seattle Times 28apr02

• Potential for Exposure to Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans when Recycling Sewage Biosolids on Agricultural Land - Environment Canada 26apr02

• Prospective Plantings in US - National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA 28mar02

• The Locals Know what Aid They Need  - The Independent (UK) 21mar02

• Dioxin Discovery in Livestock Feed Prompts Probe - AP 20mar02

• UC Berkeley Professor’s Research Allows for Increased Crop Yield -  Daily Californian 15mar02

  • Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa - Science 15mar02

• Subsidized US Imports Bury Family Farms -  New York Times 26feb02

• PCP Treated wood in livestock facilities: relationships among residues of pentachlorophenol, dioxins, and furans in wood and beef Env. Pollut. Feb02

• Contaminant loadings in farmed salmon, wild salmon and commercial salmon feed  - Chemosphere Feb02

• Chicken Farm Dust suit  by Sierra Club - Courier-Journal (KY) 5feb01

• Sugar and Sweeteners - Summary of World/ U.S Production, Consumption - ERS USDA 24jan02