|The Real Importance of Organic Milk|
Organic Connections - 12/27/2013. Center for Food Safety - Organic production systems are widely-recognized as environmentally beneficial because they don’t allow the use of synthetic, toxic chemicals—the basis of conventional agriculture. As a process-based standard, not a product-based standard, the notable benefits of organic are derived from the production process itself rather than any specific nutritional quality of the food.
|Time Is Running Out To Save Florida's Oranges|
National Public Radio - 12/27/2013. By Greg Allen, The Salt - It's not been a good year for Florida's citrus industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that, for the second year running, the orange crop to be almost 10 percent lower than the previous year.