Jeffrey T. LeJeune and Pa¨ ivi J. Rajala-Schultz
Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, and Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Although milk and dairy products are important components of a healthy diet, if consumed unpasteurized, they also can present a health hazard due to possible [...]

Perspectives in Practice
Survey of Retail Milk Composition as Affected by Label Claims Regarding Farm-Management
Practices
JOHN VICINI, PhD; TERRY ETHERTON, PhD; PENNY KRIS-ETHERTON, PhD, RD; JOAN BALLAM, MS; STEVEN DENHAM, PhD; ROBIN STAUB, PhD; DANIEL GOLDSTEIN, MD; ROGER CADY, PhD; MICHAEL MCGRATH, PhD; MATTHEW LUCY, PhD
ABSTRACT
A trend in food labeling is to make claims related to
agricultural management, [...]

“Organic proponents have…used misleading and inappropriately-evaluated data “

Posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
Publication Date: July 21, 2008
New York, NY — July 21, 2008. The latest attempt by proponents of organic agriculture to prove that organically grown crops are nutritionally superior to conventional ones has failed, according to Joseph D. Rosen, Ph.D., [...]

Wednesday 6 September 2006
“The claim that organic milk is richer in omega-3s than conventional milk – and therefore better for us – is a lot of bull.”
Alex Avery

The popular press is going cow-wild over research that supposedly proves ‘organic’ milk is healthier than ‘conventional’ milk. Not quite. Just as two cents might be twice [...]

Juan S. Velez, M.V., M.S., DACT
Aurora Organic Dairy
The Organic Industry Today
Organic farming has been one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture since 1990. The number of organic farmers in the United States has been increasing at a rate of more than 12% per year. Organic agriculture has grown from $78 million in 1980 [...]