Showing posts with label certified organic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label certified organic. Show all posts
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Friday, 2 March 2012
Healthy Shelf Monthly Giveaway - March 2012
What's your favourite thing about Easter?
Simply leave your comment below and you will go into the running to win a free Moo Free Chocolate Easter Egg 100g!
May contain traces of nuts and soya. Dairy free, lactose free, gluten free, wheat free, egg free, casein free, vegetarian, vegan. Made with fair trade sugar and cocoa.
This dairy free Easter Egg is made from our organic dairy free and Vegan alternative to milk chocolate in a factory that has only ever been used to make dairy free products. The dairy free and organic Easter Egg is packaged in a lovely Easter Egg box that features Mikey Bunny. Our dairy free Easter Eggs are perfect for kids or adults of any age who can't have dairy products, are Vegan or enjoy quality tasting milk chocolate.
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This competition closes midnight (WST) March 18th 2012 and is open to residents of Australia. The winner will be posted here on our Healthy Shelf Blog within 48 hours of the close of the competiton.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers' Case Against Monsanto
A New York federal court today dismissed a lawsuit against agribusiness giant Monsanto brought by thousands of certified organic farmers. The farmers hoped the suit would protect them against infringing on the company's crop patents in the future.
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and several other growers and organizations do not use Monsanto seeds. But they were betting that the judge would agree that Monsanto should not be allowed to sue them if pollen from the company's patented crops happened to drift into their fields.
Instead, the judge found that plaintiffs' allegations were "unsubstantiated ... given that not one single plaintiff claims to have been so threatened." The ruling also found that the plaintiffs had "overstate[d] the magnitude of [Monsanto's] patent enforcement." Monsanto brings an average of 13 patent-enforcement lawsuits per year, which, the judge said, "is hardly significant when compared to the number of farms in the United States, approximately two million."
The company, meanwhile, asserts that it doesn't exercise its patent rights when trace amounts of its patented traits inadvertently end up in farmers' fields.
Dan Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation and lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, told The Salt that Monsanto remains a "patent bully" and that the judge's decision was "gravely disappointing." The plaintiffs have not yet decided if they will appeal.
Much of the corn, soy, canola and cotton grown in the U.S. is genetically modified. Among them, corn is the most likely to cross-pollinate with plants in nearby fields. That means that genes from genetically modified crops can drift or "trespass" into organic fields.
As Dan Charles reported last year, most organic corn in the U.S. typically contains anywhere from half a percent to 2 percent GMOs, according to companies that sell such corn to organic dairies or poultry farmers. It has been that way since genetically engineered corn and soybeans came into wide use more than a decade ago.
But organic farmers say that GMO contamination could hurt the value of their crop, and they fear lawsuits from Monsanto for possessing their GM genes without paying for them. The documentary Food Inc. portrayed the company as aggressively suing farmers who save its patented seed.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Biotechnology in the 21st Century began discussing ways to protect organic farmers from contamination.
"Beyond whatever happens with this suit, there are some very legitimate issues behind it," Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, tells The Salt. "There is already a significant burden to organic food production, and there is more coming. It raises the question: Is it possible for organic agriculture to survive in the face of GM crops?"
Monsanto sees it differently, however. In a statement on the judge's decision, executive vice president David F. Snively said, "This decision is a win for all farmers as it underscores that agricultural practices such as ag biotechnology, organic and conventional systems do and will continue to effectively coexist in the agricultural marketplace."
Friday, 9 December 2011
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Monday, 3 October 2011
What Can I Eat? - October MooFree Giveaway
Healthy Shelf are proud to offer 2 lucky What Can I Eat? Subscribers a hamper of products from their Moo Free Range . Hampers are valued at over $25 each and include the all new Advent Calendar, Choc Bar and Choc Drops. Click here to find all the details of this giveaway on the What Can I Eat? website.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
MooFree Chocolate Advent Calenders and Santas Coming Soon!
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
MooFree Choc Santa's are coming to town!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
MooFree Choc Santa's are coming to town!
Monday, 13 June 2011
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