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Phone: 207-568-4142
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5 ways the Stanford study sells organics short
Mother Jones - 9/4/2012. By Tom Philpott – Is organic food little more than a trumped-up marketing scheme, another way for affluent consumers to waste money? A just-released paper by Stanford researchers – and the reaction to it by the media – suggests as much. In reality, though, the study in some places makes a strong case for organic – though you'd barely know it from the language the authors use. And in places where it finds organic wanting, key information gets left out.

Farm use of antibiotics defies scrutiny
New York Times - 9/4/2012.

By Sabrina Tavernise – Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and poultry are not required to report how they use the drugs – which ones, on what types of animal, and in what quantities. This dearth of information makes it difficult to document the precise relationship between routine antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic-resistant infections in people, scientists say.

Farmers’ markets growing in popularity: “It’s been a good year so far”
Daily Bulldog - 9/3/2012.

By Bobbie Hanstein – Farmington: On this Labor Day, which traditionally marks the end of the summer season, area farmers are reporting their sales are up this year over last year, a credit to the crops they've been able to produce and the growing number of customers frequenting Franklin County's farmers' markets.

Sticky situation: Quebec police probe maple syrup theft
Portland Press Herald - 9/1/2012. St-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec: Police in Quebec were following the scent of something sweet – millions of dollars' worth of maple syrup missing from a large warehouse stocking over $30 million worth of the amber nectar.

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