https://civileats.com/2025/02/05/california-decides-what-regenerative-agriculture-means-sort-of/ Daily News and Commentary About the American Food System Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://civileats.com/2025/02/05/california-decides-what-regenerative-agriculture-means-sort-of/#comment-309612 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:29:17 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=61139#comment-309612 useful article, although ending on the RFKJr observation seems out of place. Organic and Fair Trade as certifications have both had to broaden their criteria over an initial narrow focus, but they left soil health a bit unattended to. Certification and regulation is a very dynamic frontier which needs lots for debate and testing to find approaches which work for growers, rural communities, the environment and consumers

]]> https://civileats.com/2025/02/05/california-decides-what-regenerative-agriculture-means-sort-of/#comment-309611 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:13:07 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=61139#comment-309611 There needs to be more definitions than just organic or conventional. For “natural” meats this could mean the absence of growth hormones. But allow for deworming for internal parasites and some vaccines. Trying to keep livestock healthy, especially in damp parasite friendly areas, is very difficult without using deworming products. Many sheep producers discontinue or decide against trying to be certified organic over the deworming issue. Animals can become so anemic from internal parasites they die.

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