"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
- Aldo Leopold
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294 Crosby Brook Road
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org
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| April 25, 2013 |
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| April 29, 2013 |
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Maine newspapers support LD 718
Bangor Daily News: Give consumers a choice and label genetically modified foods
"LD 718, sponsored by Rep. Lance Harvell, R-Farmington, and co-sponsored by 123 Republicans, Democrats and independents, would require that foods containing genetically modified organisms be labeled as such. It should pass." Read the full editorial
Portland Press Herald: Legislature should pass GMO labeling bill
"Consumers have a right to know whether their food has genetically engineered ingredients. Free markets work best when consumers have what they need to make informed choices. That is the concept behind L.D. 718, the genetically modified organism labeling bill now before the Legislature. That is also the reason that lawmakers should pass this law this year." Read the full editorial |
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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
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The art of producing sustainable consumer goods: basketry
Low-tech Magazine - 2/24/2012. By Brian Kaller – The craft of basketry might be one of our species’ most important and diverse technologies, creating homes, boats, animal traps, armour, tools, cages, hats, chariots, weirs, beehives, shelters and furniture, as well as all manner of containers. |
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Lexicon of sustainability: fallen fruit
Grist - 2/24/2012. By Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton – People search their cities and neighborhoods for unused or unwanted things: litter, refuse … even food. Fruit is often overlooked (while still on the tree and once its fallen to the ground). The Fallen Fruit Collective began as a Los Angeles-based public art project. |
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Soil: from dirt to lifeline
Energy Bulletin - 2/23/2012.Fred Kirschenmann has been involved in sustainable agriculture and food issues for most of his life. He currently serves as both a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and as President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. He also still provides management over site of his family's 2600 acre organic farm in south central North Dakota. |
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EPA sued to ban toxic pesticide and Agent Orange ingredient from household weed products
TreeHugger - 2/23/2012. By Rachel Cernansky – A toxic herbicide, 2,4-D, is a World War II-era weed killer ingredient that is one of the oldest pesticides still legally on the market: it's one of the top three pesticides sold nationwide and the most common pesticide-based weed control product in the home and garden market. Products containing it include Aqua-Kleen, Plantgard, Lawn-Keep and Planotox. It is a known neurotoxin, is toxic to the eye, thyroid, kidney, adrenals, and ovaries/testes according to the EPA and is linked to cancer and other diseases, and was an ingredient in Agent Orange. |
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