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Leah Zerbe - President's Cancer Panel: Eat Organic, Avoid Plastics◄

Eat Organic, Avoid Plastics
Finally, the U.S. government's talking prevention. Real prevention. Not a scan to detect a disease already growing in your body, but rather, the idea of reducing exposure to environmental toxins—like chemicals used in farming and in plastics—to reduce the risk of cancer. The newly released Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now report from the President's Cancer Panel urges the public to eat foods grown without chemical pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, and antibiotics, while suggesting practical advice such as not heating plastic in the microwave and not using water bottles that may contain BPA, or bisphenol A, a chemical linked to cancer, reproductive problems, and heart...full article »

School Lunch Program Needs A Stimulus Package
Tens of billions of dollars in public money to Bank of America and Citigroup. About $170 billion in aid to AIG. And for public school students in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose parents fall behind on paying their school lunch tab? A cold cheese sandwich. You hear a lot of talk these days about making sure children have access to healthy foods. But as a dietitian who works with school food service directors across the country, I can only hope the federal government will back such rhetoric with real resources. Albuquerque's cheese-sandwich policy is hardly unique. Nor is it hard to understand. While AIG executives ponder whether to spend or return their million-dollar bonuses, school food service directors face a... full article » | Take Action!

No Methyl Iodide in California!:
Commercially grown strawberries and tomatoes in California could start getting an unhealthy dose of the highly toxic fumigant methyl iodide, a known carcinogen, neurotoxin, and thyroid disruptor. Among scientists' greatest concerns is the pesticide's ability to cause spontaneous abortion late in pregnancy. So you might be surprised to hear that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) recently issued a proposed decision to approve methyl iodide for use just months after a state-commissioned study warned that any agricultural use "would result in exposures to a large number of the public and thus would have a significant adverse impact on the public health" adding that... full article » | Take Action!

Community Market Employee Newsletter Articles

Practice Not Purity: The Truth Behind the Organic Label

by Nica Poznanovich - Community Market's Board President

With the organic industry’s rise in popularity, more and more farms and producers are searching for weaknesses within the organic standards in order to cash in on the trend of the century. Understanding the truth behind the USDA’s organic label is essential in the preservation of our demand for a healthy food system. If we don’t protect the brand, the organic label program is finished and will disappear overnight. For the first time since the organic standards were established in 1986, the USDA is revising their biotech rules and regulations. This is the time when both consumers and retailers must come together and demand for the purity of food rather than just systems to produce it. It is important to realize that Community Market doesn’t want you to stop trusting or buying organic products; you are always getting a superior product by going organic, but we will never stop working to make the label as meaningful and strong as possible. full article »

WHY SHOP LOCALLY?

by Nica Poznanovich - Community Market's Board President & Front End Manager

As of July 2009 Merriam-Webster’s dictionary has added ‘locavore’ to its pages, thereby cementing its presence into our global lexicon. Re-prioritizing the way we view our food and the global resonance of that food supply, has been an aim of Community Market since its conception. When asking yourself why shop locally, there are three main components one must consider; the economical, environmental, and psychological impacts. full article »

AMERICAN HERBALISM

by Nicholas Smith - Community Market's Marketing Director

Community Market Most Americans grow up without ever being able to identify five plants in their region, much less their medicinal properties. With the rise of modern medicine, the healing techniques of our ancestors is labeled as archaic and pushed aside to make room for a growing industry of overpriced pharmaceuticals. (One must question the contradiction of dismissing traditional medicine as primitive, yet at the same time, administering plant-derived drugs such as atropine, codeine, ephedrine, morphine, and quinine; to name a few.) Unlike in Europe, and specifically in Great Britain, there is no standard training and certification program for herbalists in the US. To practice phytotherapy in the States, one must seek out alternative schools (which tend to be costly without the option of school loans) or rely on self education. full article »

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