Today in Organic: February 22, 2010

• This is pure science fiction: In a New York Times Op-Ed, Adam Shriver argues that we should genetically engineer livestock so that they can't feel pain. "If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain," Shriver writes. 

• BK Farmyards is raising money to build a youth farm in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Watch the video at Food Curated. 

• The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund filed a suit against the FDA over the weekend challenging the law against interstate shipment of raw milk. Read about it at Grist. 

• Samuel Fromartz takes an in-depth look at how USDA changed the rules requiring dairy cows to graze a minimum amount of pasture in a new Atlantic article.