by Mark Kastel | Feb 11, 2020 | News Posts
Marc Eisen is a gifted journalist who really knows Wisconsin, agriculture, and organics. He was the longtime editor of Madison’s urban weekly, the Isthmus. In this new age of journalism he has found an authoritative home online with the Wisconsin Examiner.... 
by Mark Kastel | Jan 30, 2020 | News Posts
Although my office is officially in Washington, and I will visit soon, for the third time, since we launched OrganicEye, I live in the rugged, un-glaciated Driftless Region on the West Coast of Wisconsin. My county, thought to have more organic farmers than any county... 
by Mark Kastel | Jan 28, 2020 | News Posts
(from Beyond Pesticides, January 17, 2020) In Brussels, the European Commission (EC) has just decided not to renew approval of the neonicotinoid pesticide thiacloprid, citing both environmental and health concerns related to use of and exposure to the pesticide. The... 
by Mark Kastel | Jan 17, 2020 | News Posts
Mark Kastel appears live on the Heart of Wellness show, hosted by husband-and-wife chiropractors, to take a deep dive, through free-association, looking at the choices we make in our diets and the impact on immediate and long-term health and well-being.... 
by Mark Kastel | Dec 13, 2019 | News Posts
When the Organic Foods Production Act was passed by Congress (1990), and the oversight of the organic movement was handed to USDA, there were no (zero) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations producing organic livestock products (milk, meat, and eggs). Today, they are... 
by Mark Kastel | Oct 28, 2019 | News Posts
(Beyond Pesticides, October 24, 2019) Fish and fruit are undoubtedly healthy foods, but modern-day contamination is leading scientists to caution pregnant mothers and young children to stick within current dietary guidelines, or switch to organic, in order to avoid...