Organic News Articles posted in 2004

12/31 - Canada Says Mad Cow Screening Finds Suspect Animal
12/31 - Public Losing Patience over White House Manipulation of Science
12/31 - Biopharm Bullies Hell-Bent on Contaminating Food Crops
12/31 - Beyond "Buying Blue": Supporting Local Socially Responsible Businesses
12/30 - Overseas Consumers Increasingly Shunning U.S. Brand Name Products
12/30 - U.S. Organic Cotton Clothing Sales Increase But Domestic Organic Production Decreases
12/30 - White House Slashes Farm Conservation Programs
12/30 - Aid Organizations Complain of Bush Being "Stingy" and"Insensitive" After Tsunami Disaster
12/30 - Rumsfeld Says 911 Plane Was "Shot Down" over Pennsylvania
12/29 - Brand Name Bullies Fearful of Consumer Activists
12/29 - Organic Cotton Takes Root in Central Asia
12/29 - Southern California Agribusiness Sucks Up $416 Million a Year in Water Subsidies
12/29 - PR Watch: The Weekly Spin
12/29 - Explosive New Book: Was Senator Paul Wellstone Assassinated?
12/29 - If You Think Frankenfoods Are Scary--Check Out Nanotechnology
12/28 - Consumers & Farmers Rejecting Frankencrops in Australia
12/28 - PR Hype Around GE Cotton Exposed in India
12/28 - Wal-Mart & Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers
12/27 - ACTION ALERT: Professor Canned for Releasing Paper on GE Contamination
12/27 - American Drug Prices: Big Pharma's Dirty Little Secret
12/27 - Pesticides & Household Cleaning Chemicals Linked to Asthma Epidemic in Children
12/27 - New Federal Laws Accelerate Timber Companies' Destruction of National Forests
12/27 - Large Corporate Farms Sucking Up Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies
12/27 - Right Wing Extremists from Yum Brands (Taco Bell) Exploit Florida Farm Workers
12/27 - Looking Back on 2004--Hopeful Signs on the Global Horizon
12/27 - USDA's Mad Cow Policy Kills Jobs, Threatens Public Health
12/27 - One Year After: Mad Cow Safeguards in Tatters
12/27 - Web Site Helps Consumers Boycott Companies that Give Money to the Radical Right
12/27 - GMO-Free Municipalities Spreading Across Italy
12/27 - The Death of Liberalism & the Environmental Movement
12/23 - Ignacio Chapela on Mexico's New "Monsanto Law"
12/23 - Bombs Not Butter: Bush Cuts Overseas Food Aid by $100 Million
12/23 - Tell FDA to Stop the Contamination of Food with Experimental GE Crops
12/23 - Local & Organic: The Answer to Our Unsafe Global Food Supply
12/23 - Bush Administration Twisting Science to Promote Radical Right/Corporate Agenda
12/22 - PR Watch: The Weekly Spin (Dec. 22, 2004)
12/22 - The Antidote to Wal-Mart: Shop and Dine in Local Stores & Restaurants
12/22 - Inspectors Say U.S. Meat Plants Are Violating Mad Cow Rules
12/22 - Coca-Cola's Corporate Practices Rival Big Tobacco
12/22 - Action Alert--Kick School Junk Food Marketers out of Your State
12/22 - Salinas Valley Farmworkers Win Huge Victory Against Water Privatizers
12/21 - EPA Violates International Treaty in Allowing Massive Increase of Methyl Bromide Pesticide Use
12/21 - Chemical Industry Sues to Stop Bans on Dangerous Fertilizers
12/21 - Jamaica Invests in the Future: $20 Million for Organic Agriculture
12/21 - Federal Meat Inspectors Union Blow Whistle on Mad Cow Practices
12/21 - New Service Connects Organic Volunteers with Opportunities in Latin America
12/20 - Wal-Mart: Helping Lower-Income Consumers Dig Their Own Grave
12/20 - Grist Magazine Interviews CEO of Whole Foods Markets, John Mackey
12/20 - Bush Gang Obstructing Efforts to Reduce Climate Destabilization
12/20 - Americans Are New Guinea Pigs for $500 Billion Pharmaceutical Industry
12/20 - Activists Denounce Industry Claim of Reducing Global Warming with GE Tree Plantations
12/20 - Edible packaging could reduce plastic food packaging
12/20 - Genetic Engineering as the Final Conquest
12/20 - Scientists Call for Sharp Curbs on Biopharming
12/17 - News Tidbits That Will See You Through the Holidays Organic Bytes #46
12/17 - Feeding Cows to Cows, One Year Later
12/17 - The EPA Wants You and Your Chemicals
12/17 - Canada Study Shows Cattle Cannibalism Continues in North America
12/16 - Dr. Arpad Pusztai Demolishes Monsanto's Claims that GMOs Have Been Proven Safe
12/16 - Global Warming is a Human Rights Issue for Artic Inuit Tribes
12/16 - FDA Failing to Test Imported South Asian Herbal Remedies Containing Toxic Heavy Metals
12/16 - Monsanto's Dirty Tricks Campaign Against Fired Berkeley Professor Ignacio Chapela
12/15 - How to be a Part of the Solution (Organic Bytes #45)
12/15 - Dairies could thrive by going GE-Free
12/15 - Tell the FDA to Back Off From Irradiating Seafood
12/15 - Biopharming: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
12/15 - Mexican Legislators Approve "Monsanto's Law"
12/15 - Will the Peace Movement Pursue What Really Happened on 9/11?
12/15 - One-Quarter of Global Bird Population in Danger of Extinction
12/14 - Organic Market Growing in Europe and Brazil as well as North America
12/14 - Green Gifts for Christmas
12/14 - Soybean Rust Fungus Attack U.S. Soybean Fields
12/14 - EPA Lost its Mission & Now Loses another Administrator
12/13 - Firing of Biotech Critic Ignacio Chapela Mobilizes Students & Professors at Berkeley
12/13 - Investigative Reporters on rBGH Fired by Fox Challenge Renewal of TV License in Tampa
12/13 - Large Corporate Farms Still Getting Lion's Share of Taxpayer Subsidies
12/13 - Factory Farms Causing Spike in Asthma
12/13 - China May Tax Clothing Exports to Head off Trade Conflict with the U.S.
12/13 - School Food Policies and Strategies for Change
12/13 - EPA to Allow Cities to Dump Untreated Sewage into America's Waterways
12/13 - Hunger in America: A National Disgrace
12/13 - Oregon Physicians Push for a Moratorium on Controversial Biopharm Crops
12/13 - Vile Food Served Up in U.S. Prisons in Iraq Set off Riots
12/13 - Unions Plan Massive Global Campaign Against Wal-Mart
12/13 - U.S. Professor's Book on What Really Happened on 9/11 Becomes Underground Best-Seller
12/13 - Dying for Consumption in the USA
12/10 - Global Sales of Biotech Crops from the Five Producer Nations Reach $44 Billion
12/10 - Industrial Agriculture Wastes 50% of Food
12/10 - New USDA Head Supports Unsustainable Corn-Based Ethanol
12/10 - Consumers Urged to Boycott Products with PVC Plastic Containers
12/10 - Despite Threat to Wild Salmon Canada Ponders Release of GE Frankenfish
12/10 - Bill Moyers--Millions of U.S. Fundamentalists Yearn for the Apocalypse
12/9 - Study Shows Organic Food Healthier for Animals
12/9 - Huge "No-Fishing" Zones Only Hope for Ocean Marine Life
12/9 - Bayer's GE Crop Herbicide, Glufosinate, Causes Brain Damage
12/9 - Will Global Agriculture Survive the Coming Energy Crisis?
12/9 - Why Gene-Spliced Bacteria Are Inherently Hazardous
12/9 - Action Alert--Tell FDA to Prevent Food Contamination by GE Crops
12/9 - USDA Again Postpones Regulation to Stop Spread of Mad Cow Disease
12/9 - Courageous Biotech Critic Terminated at UC Berkeley
12/9 - Bush's New "Secretary of Agribusiness" Mike Johanns
12/9 - W ar and Deficit Spending Spell the End to Subsidies
12/9 - Fair Trade Candy and Hot Chocolate Available for the Holidays
12/9 - Organic Community Recommendations on Strengthening USDA Organic Standards
12/9 - 85% of U.S. Consumers Say GE Foods Should Be Safety Tested
12/7 - Biotech & Timber Giants Push "Frankentrees" as Solution to Global Warming
12/7 - Greed of U.S. & Other Rich Nations Will Starve 45 Million Children by 2015
12/7 - More on Bush's New USDA Secretary, Mike Johanns
12/7 - Clergy Criticize Vatican for Spreading Myth that Biotech CropsWill Feed the Hungry
12/6 - Asia Will Likely Decide the Future of Monsanto & GE Crops
12/6 - Bush Appoints Nebraska Biotech Booster to Head USDA
12/6 - Plans for Forcing Frankencrops on Iraq & Afghanistan?
12/6 - The Corporate Organic Conquest
12/6 - Organic Food Spreading to American Ballparks
12/6 - Wal-Mart Sucks Up Taxpayer Subsidies & Pays Poverty Level Wages
12/3 - Biotech Companies Sent Out Contaminated GE Seeds for Seven Years
12/3 - America's Respected Historian, Howard Zinn: "Harness That Anger"
12/3 - Child Rat Poisoning Rate Increases as EPA Cuts Pesticide Regulations
12/3 - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge (Organic Bytes #44)
12/3 - Greenpeace--Going Green for the Holidays
12/2 - The coming Apocalypse for US Apparel Makers
12/2 - New Strict EU Rules on GMOs Will Have Major Global Impacts
12/2 - Mad Cow USA: More Delays & Denials
12/2 - Animal Cannibalism Still Going Strong in U.S Feedlots
12/2 - Bush Administration--Death to the Salmon!
12/2 - Corporate Agribusiness Aims to Supress Rural Democracy in Minnesota
12/2 - Genetically Engineered Rice Experiments in China
12/1 - Rocket Fuel Contaminates Lettuce and Milk
12/1 - Gene Giant Syngenta Abandons Europe Citing Public Resistance to Frankenfoods
12/1 - PR Watch: The Weekly Spin (Dec. 1, 2004)
12/1 - Sophisticated Corporate Marketers Manipulating Children's Appetites
11/30 - Factory Farms Offer Nothing But Pollution
11/30 - Most (70%) of Wal-Mart's Products Are Produced in China
11/30 - Latest U.S.Farm Statistics --Trade Deficits & Low Prices for Family Farmers
11/30 - EU Votes to Maintain Country Bans on Genetically Engineered Crops
11/30 - Minneapolis Newspaper on EPA Rat Poison Controversy
11/30 - The Hypocrisy of the Religious Right in America
11/29 - Frankenfoods Derived from Nanotechnology (Atomic Manipulation): A Mortal Threat
11/29 - Complete Text of New German "Polluter Pays" GMO Liability Law
11/29 - Monsanto & Allies Ponder How to Force Frankenwheat on Consumers
11/29 - Germans Protect Themselves from "Genetic Trespassing" by Biotech Bullies and Farmers
11/29 - Organic Foods Market Still Growing
11/28 - Mad Cow Discussions to Dominate Trade Summit
11/28 - Is Bigger Better? Corporate Clouds on the Organic Horizon
11/28 - Socially Responsible Garment Companies Take on Nike and theSweatshop Giants
11/28 - Monsanto & Allies Ponder How to Force Frankenwheat on Consumers
11/28 - OCA's National Petition Against EPA Pesticide Study on Children Shows Results
11/28 - Market for Organic & Humanely Raised Turkeys Increasing
11/27 - Consumers Unite--Buy Nothing Day on November 26-27
11/27 - How to End the War in Iraq
11/26 - Congress Backs off on Eliminating Country of Origin Food Labeling
11/26 - Thanksgiving Sales of Organic Turkey & Tofurky on the Rise
11/25 - Farmers Urged to Examine Legal Ramifications of Planting GMO Crops
11/25 - The Corporate Attack on Organic Agriculture
11/24 - Can the Bush Administration Be Trusted on Mad Cow Testing?
11/24 - USDA's Denial of New Mad Cow Case "Flunks the Smell Test"
11/24 - US Will Officially Legalize Genetic Pollution of Crops
11/24 - World Conservation Union Calls for Moratorium on GMOs
11/24 - The Weekly Spin--Corporate & Government Propaganda
11/24 - Propaganda Campaign Against Organic Food Based Upon Lies & Bad Science
11/23 - Suspect Animal Tests Negative for Mad Cow
11/23 - Resistance to Frankencrops Stronger than Ever in EU
11/23 - FDA Will Continue to Allow Genetic Pollution of Food Crops by Biotech Companies
11/23 - Controversial Biopharm Company Abandons California
11/21 - U.S. Cattle Industry Awaits Mad Cow Test Results
11/21 - African Countries Demand an End to US Cotton Subsidies
11/21 - New Mad Cow Case Found in U.S.?
11/21 - GOP Prepares to Deny Consumers Right to Know Where Our Food Comes From
11/20 - Consumers Union Slams FDA for Failure to Implement Mad Cow Disease Prevention
11 19 - Bush Gang Will Allow Factory Farms to Conceal Toxic Pollution
11/19 - Agroecology Versus the Corporate Greenwash Version of "Ecoagriculture"
11/18 - Cattle Prices Tumble; U.S. May Have 2nd Case of Mad Cow Disease
11/18 - Possible new case of Mad Cow Disease found in the United States
11/18 - Arcata, California Bans Genetically Engineered Crops
11/18 - Biotech Bullies in Panic to Stop Spread of GE-Free Zones
11/18 - Anger at Bush Overseas Alarms World's Largest Corporate Brand Marketers
11/18 - New Study Shows Industry Funded Biotech Safety Tests Are Bogus
11/18 - Southern Black Farmers: Targets of USDA Racism
11/18 - Vietnam going Organic to Mitigate Agent Orange Impact
11/17 - Which Biotech Booster Will Replace Ann Veneman as USDA Farm Czar?
11/17 - Coke booted from Chicago Schools
11/17 - Biotech Giant Bayer Suspends GE Research in India
11/17 - Country of Origin Labeling Law on Foods May Be Eliminated by Congress Action Alert
11/17 - EPA Allows Rat Poison Manufacturers to Poison Kids
11/17 - New Bush USDA Will Promote Globalization & Industrial Agriculture
11/17 - New Iraq Patent Law Will Make Traditional Farmers Seed Saving Illegal
11/17 - Salad Bars Taking Root in Urban Schools
11/15 - GE-Free Zones Are Spreading Across Italy
11/15 - Japan's Major Food Growing Region Bans GE Crops
11/15 - Leading Geneticist Exposes Hazards of Gene-Altered Foods & Crops
11/15 - Nine U.S. States Defy Bush & Set Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
11/15 - Whole Foods Sales of Organic Clothing May Generate Mass Market Demand
11/15 - EU Overfishing Starving West Africa & Increasing Bushmeat Trade
11/15 - USDA Subsidies Funding Toxic & Corporate Agriculture
11/15 - Global Movement Growing to Ban GE Trees
11/15 - Beyond Frankencrops--Moving Toward Genuine Sustainable Agriculture
11/12 - EPA Using Kids as Guinea Pigs to Test Pesticides (Alert and other Organic News Tidbits)
11/12 - Central America: Workers Left Sterile by
Pesticide Seek Justice
11/12 - U.S. Food Imports Now Exceed Exports
11/12 - GE Crops Use More Pesticides Than Conventional Crops
11/12 - Slight Increase in USDA Research Money Going to Organic Sector
11/12 - Powell River: Canada's 1st GE Free Zone
11/12 - Organic Class Action Against Monsanto Moves Forward in Canada
11/12 - Organics Spreading in Czech Republic--OCA Media Hit
11/11 - Los Angeles Passes "No-Sweat" Ordinance by a Landslide
11/11 - Vietnamese Association of Victims of Agent Orange Sue Monsanto
11/11 - NAFTA Commission Calls for Labeling of GE Corn
11/10 - Environmental Roots of Breast Cancer Epidemic
11/10 - NAFTA Report on Corn Contamination Rocks Biotech Industry
11/9 - Cotton and Water Subsidies Net Bumper Crop of Cotton in CA
11/9 - Schools Will Reward Kids Who Make Good Choices at Lunch
11/9 - Overweight Passengers Beef Up Airlines’ Costs
11/8 - New Documentary-The Future of Food-Fires Up Consumer Activists
11/8 - Monsanto's Biotech Empire Threatened by Economic Losses
11/8 - Lies & Smears from Biotech Industry in Latest Attack on Organic Food
11/8 - Arcata, California Set to Ban GE Crops
11/8 - Global Ecotourism: Is it Really Green or Just More Greenwashing?
11/8 - The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy
11/5 - Citywide Composting of Food Wastes in San Francisco Sets National Model
11/5 - Corporate Agribusiness Rejoices over Bush Reelection
11/5 - The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy
11/5 - Global Warming Unraveling Food Chain in Ocean
11/5 - Despite Industry Spin, OCA & Anti-GE Movement Will Go Forward in California
11/4 - OCA Press Release on Marin County Ban on GE Crops
11/4 - Environmentalists Discuss What is to be Done After the Elections
11/3 - Food Giants Pressure World Health Organization to Downplay Junk Food Hazards
11/3 - America's Most Popular Online Blogger on Yesterday's Elections
11/3 - Overseas Consumers Boycotting USA Products
11/3 - Mayan Coffee Farmers Push Fair Trade in the Midwest
11/3 - Marin County Bans Biotech Crops
11/2 - OCA Media Hit CNN/Money
11/2 - International Union of Foodworkers call for International GMO Moratorium
11/2 - Labels Will Be Required on All Gene-Altered Seeds in Vermont
11/2 - Discrimination Continues at USDA
11/1 - EPA Will Use Poor Kids as Guinea Pigs in New Study on Toxic Pesticides
11/1 - Reduce Global Warming with Your Knife & Fork
11/1 - Mad Cow Disease Has Spread to Goats in France
11/1 - Syngenta's Massive Lobbying Keeps Carcinogenic Corn Pesticide on Market
10/29 - Organic Election, Tobacco,Wal-Mart, & More...(Organic Bytes #42)
10/29 - Just In Time for Halloween! Corn, a thriller featuring the risks of GMOs
10/29 - GE canola class action suit moves forward in Canada
10/29 - Mexican Farmers Protest Against GE Corn
10/29 - Biotech Industry Running Scared in California
10/29 - The Anti-Environmental Armageddon Cult: 50 Million Bible Thumpers & 231 Members of Congress
10/29 - Halloween Cheer: Pumpkins Suck Up Pesticides from the Soil
10/29 - New UK Report Underlines Inherent Hazards of Gene-Altered Foods
10/29 - Global Scientists Warn of Hazards of GE Foods & Crops
10/28 - To Color or not to Color
10/28 - USA Today Covers CA County Bans
10/28 - GE Crops Are Using More, Not Less, Pesticides than Conventional Crops
10/28 - Are U.S. Farm Subsidies Making Americans Fat
10/28 - Candidates & the Country in Denial About the Energy Crisis
10/28 - Agribusiness Examiner Looks at Rural Issues & the Elections
10/28 - Cluster of Mad Cow-Like (CJD) Diseases in NY State Has People Worried
10/26 - ICTA Public Interest Attorneys File for Court Injunction to Stop GE Bentgrass
10/26 - Japan Partly Bows to US Pressure on Importing U.S. Beef
10/26 - Fate of GE Crops on Ballot in 3 Counties
10/26 - Junk Food Giants Work Overtime to Suppress Health Insurance for Workers
10/26 - Mexican Campesinos Applaud Anti-GE Corn Report
10/25 - GM Crop Acreage Increases Worldwide
10/25 - Natural food retailers “act locally” against GMOs
10/25 - Robert F Kennedy Jr.: Why We Must Stop Corporate Plunder of the Environment
10/25 - Mad Cow Disease (CJD) Begins to Contaminate Blood Supply in France
10/25 - Biotech Front Group Feeds Propaganda to Media
10/25 - Paul Hawken: Five Reasons to Vote for A County Ban of GE Crops
10/25 - Patagonia Sets the Pace for Green Business: Vote the Environment
10/25 - Global Climate Change Likely Cause of Increasingly Destructive Hurricanes
10/25 - Mercury Contamination in Fish Threatens Women & Children
10/25 - Mexicans Battle Wal-Mart Desecration of Ancient Aztec City of Teotihuacan
10/25 - Arcata, California Moves Toward Ban of GE Crops
10/25 - Univ. of California Attempt to Silence Biotech Critic Fuels Major Controvers
10/25 - California GE-Free Ballot Initiatives May Determine Future of Agriculture
10/22 - Coming Clean Campaign Results in Better Labeling and Ingredients in Personal Care Products at Expo East
10/22 - Bt Cotton Fails Again in India
10/22 - Organic Foods Continue to Grow in Popularity in U.S.
10/22 - Pork Barrel Ethanol Bill Makes its Way Through Congress
10/22 - Family Farmers Join Battle at Supreme Court to Stop Financial Rip Off by Beef Giants
10/22 - Workers at Nation's Largest Walnut Plant Win Union Recognition
10/21 - How Green is the New Biodiesel Movement?
10/21 - Mad Cow USA--Will Agribusiness Stop Feeding Animals Hazardous Slaughterhouse Waste?
10/21 - Agri-Toxics Lobby Stop Pesticides Expert from Speaking in Minnesota
10/21 - Birds in Decline Across North America
10/21 - Wendell Berry: Environmentalists Are Not Radical Enough
10/21 - Iraq's New Patent Law--A War Against Farmers
10/21 - Arcata City Council (CA) Explores a Mendocino Style GE Ban
10/20 - Monsanto Facing Another Schmeiser Lawsuit
10/20 - China May Introduce GE Rice Next Year
10/20 - San Luis Obispo GE Free Debate
10/20 - US Appeals WTO Decision Saying Multi-Billion Dollar Cotton Subsidies Must End
10/20 - Central America Coffee Farmers Survive by Going Green
10/20 - Top Scientists Slam Bush for Willfully Ignoring Catastrophic Climate Change
10/20 - Will FDA & USDA Keep Mad Cow out of Cosmetics and Sausage?
10/19 - Asian Farmer-Coop Demanding an End to Farm Subsidies
10/19 - Monsanto's Positive Spin on Continuing Production Problems with rBGH
10/19 - A Grassroots Battle over Biotech Farming
10/18 - Congress OKs Toxic Chemicals & Pesticides on Imported Tobacco
10/18 - Michael Pollan--Our National Eating Disorder
10/18 - Food Giants & California Legislature Preserve Junk Food Diet for Schools
10/18 - Brazil's President Bows to Pressure from Monsanto & US on GE Soybeans
10/18 - Starbucks Raises Prices--But World's Coffee Farmers Won't Get a Raise
10/18 - American Indians Fight to Save Wild Rice from Destruction
10/18 - Virus-Spliced GE Papayas Contaminating Organic Crops in Hawaii
10/14 - Organic and Consumer News Tidbits (Organic Bytes #41)Voting, Water, Bananas, China, Junk food
10/14 - CCOF: The Dangers of Genetically Engineered Crops
10/14 - CCOF Supports GE-Free Initiatives
10/14 - USDA Slammed for Allowing Factory Style "Organic" Dairy Operations
10/14 - League of Rural Voters Mobilizing for Crucial November Elections
10/14 - Poll Shows Canadians Opposed to GE Foods & Crops
10/14 - International Consumers Network Calls for Global Moratorium on GMOs
10/14 - Study Shows Organic Farming Increases Biodiversity
10/14 - States Lack Money to Enforce Clean Water Act
10/12 - Cornucopia Slams USDA Enforcement Standards
10/12 - Will Biotech Bullies Spread Non-Food Frankencrops Across the Globe?
10/12 - Farm Bureau Money Dominates in Butte County CA GE Ban Ballot Initiative
10/11 - Monsanto's Bullying Tactics in Argentina & Latin America
10/11 - Nobel Peace Prize Winner Slams Life Patents and GMOs
10/11 - Deadly Ozone-Depleting Pesticide Still Used By Agribusiness Despite Global Ban
10/11 - Global Climate Change Could Cause Devastating Droughts in Western U.S.
10/11 - Chemical Fertilizers Destroying the Environment & Killing Ocean Life
10/8 - Schwarzeneggar & Industry Conceal Location of Tainted Meat from Consumers
10/8 - Chiquita, Dole, & Del Monte Sued for Poisoning Banana Workers in Costa Rica
10/8 - Beware--Money Hungry Scientists Playing God with Deadly Bacteria
10/8 - Organic Food Booming in China
10/8 - Organics Growing Steadily in New EU Nations
10/8 - Beware Polls--The Opiate of the Electorate
10/7 - 21 Reasons Why We Need to Abolish Industrial Agriculture
10/7 - Coalition Calls for End to Deep Sea Trawling in Oceans
10/7 - Despite Massive Public Opposition EU Bureaucrats Caving in to White House on Frankencrops
10/7 - Importation of Monsanto's Frankenseeds Will Spur Major Resistance in EU
10/7 - OCA Policy Board Member John Stauber on the November Presidential Election
10/7 - Monsanto & Biotech Bullies Move to Stop Farmers from Saving Their Own Seed
10/6 - Biopirates Selling Genetic Samples Extracted from Blood of Brazilian Indigenous Tribe
10/6 - U.S. Senate Bill Introduced to Ban the Sale of Soda & Junk Food in Schools
10/6 - Vote Organic in November--Comparing Kerry & Bush
10/6 - Cities Covering Up Dangerous Levels of Lead Pollution in Water Supplies
10/6 - EU Labeling Laws Have Driven GE Foods off the Market
10/5 - California Organic Farmers Support GE Crops Ban Ballot Initiatives
10/5 - Grist Magazine on Hemp Clothing
10/5 - Pressure Mounts to Eliminate Corporate Welfare Portion of Farm Subsidies
10/5 - Children Will Pay for "Me First" Corporate & Government Greed
10/5 - Corporations Hide Behind "Risk Analysis" While Poisoning the Public
10/5 - Study Shows Pesticides, Pollution, & Poverty Are Killing America's Babies
10/4 - Monsanto's GE Soybeans Give Rise to Lower Yields, Superweeds, & Pest Infestations
10/4 - Organic Agriculture Key in Reducing Global Warming
10/4 - Monster at the Door: Asian Bird & Pig Flu H5N1 Could Kill Millions--Including You
10/4 - The Necessity of Creating GE-Free Zones
10/4 - The Future of Family Farms is Organic
10/4 - U.S. Government & Starbucks Move Forward with "Trade Imperialism" in Latin America
10/4 - Gene-Altered "Golden Rice" Exposed as a Total Fraud
10/4 - Scientists Urge New Approach to Childhood Obesity Epidemic in U.S.
10/4 - "Freegan" Dumpster Diving Reveals America's Colossal Waste of Food
10/2 - Farmers Take on Monsanto's Seed Monopoly
10/2 - Biotech Propaganda Express Taking Aim at Students
10/1 - Organic Bytes #40 - Hemp Victory, Labeling Fraud, Mad Deer, Mutant Grass and More
10/1 - Ethanol Subsidies for ADM & Other Corporate Kleptomaniacs Will Not Solve Energy Crisis
10/1 - An Allergy-Free Soybean Without Using Risky GE Techniques
10/1 - U.S. Delays Release of Study Calling for an End to Dumping GE-Tainted Corn on Mexico
10/1 - Hundreds of Schools in South Africa Planting Organic Gardens
10/1 - 8,000 Migrant Farm Workers Win Battle for Union Recognition in North Carolina
10/1 - Organic Food Expanding in Mexico
9/30 - Organic Food All The Rage at Yale Cafeteria
9/30 - McDonald's "Super Size Me" Burger Empire Crumbling in UK
9/30 - Marin Board of Supervisors Endorse GMO Ban
9/30 - Widespread Genetic Pollution of Monsanto's GE Bentgrass Alarms Europeans
9/28 - Monsanto forced out of Costa Rica
9/28 - Local: The Route to Survival for Family Farmers
9/28 - Bush Backs off on Mad Cow Prevention as Election Year Favor to Beef Industry
9/28 - Hurricanes, Global Warming, Climate Change--Made in Detroit & the White House?
9/28 - Update on California GE Free Campaigns
9/28 - Feds Back Down on Ban of Hemp Seed & Oil in Natural & Organic Foods
9/28 - "Green Revolution" Farm Debts to Monsanto & Others Driving Indian Farmers to Suicide
9/28 - USDA Manipulating Dairy Policy for Bush Votes?
9/27 - California to Ban Practice of Forcing Farm Workers to Weed by Hand
9/27 - Mad Deer Disease--An Alarming Hazard for America's 12 Million Deer Hunters
9/27 - Twenty Thousand Attend Fair in Maine to Celebrate Incredible Growth of Organics
9/27 - Victory Near on Reversing DEA Ban on Hemp in Organic & Natural Foods
9/27 - Eddie Bauer: Going Green, Staying Sweat Shop
9/27 - 6,000 Britons Told They May Have Mad Cow Disease
9/24 - Native Americans Discuss a Return to Traditional Natural Foods to Combat Health Problems
9/23 - Richest & Largest U.S. Corporations Paying Less and Less Taxes
9/23 - Biotech Booster & Pollster Thomas Hoban Has Second Thoughts About GMOs
9/23 - States Take the Lead in Pushing for Renewable Energy
9/23 - Music Stars Help Farm Aid Raise a Million Dollars for Family Farmers at Seattle Concert
9/23 - Hawaii Farmers Call for GE-Free Zones
9/23 - Scientists Fear Drugs & Vaccines Made from Cow Blood & Bones May Transmit Mad Cow Disease
9/23 - Japan Refusing U.S. Beef Until White House Agrees to Stricter Safety Rules
9/23 - UK Blood Donations May Be Contaminated with Mad Cow Disease
9/23 - GE Grass Spreads Genetic Pollution over Large Distances
9/23 - EPA Finds Water on Airplanes is Feces Contaminated
9/23 - Controversy Swirls Around Monsanto Frankencorn
9/22 - BASF Sues Farmer for Allegedly Saving Seed
9/22 - Biotech Lobby Trying to Sneak GMOs into EU Despite Consumers Rejection
9/22 - EU Accused of Caving in to Pressure from U.S. On GMOs
9/17 - Analysis of San Luis Obispo County GMO Initiative
9/17 - Campaign for GE-Free Zones in Europe Goes Forward
9/17 - Nader's Top Endorsers in 2000 Urge Swing State Support for Kerry
9/17 - Fact Sheet on Hazards of Hormone Implants or Injections in Beef
9/17 - Indigenous Communities Battle for Global Justice & Sustainability
9/17 - China Has Carelessly Planted a Million GE Trees
9/17 - Serious Pollution of Great Lakes & Its Residents Continues
9/17 - GE Contamination of Papayas in Hawaii & Thailand
9/17 - Why Putting Human Genes in GE Tomatoes is a Bad Idea
9/14 - On NOT getting by on Food Stamps
9/14 - Corporate America Spending $15 Billion Annually to Brainwash Children
9/14 - Washington State Fires Ag Inspector for Protecting Public from Toxic Pesticides
9/14 - Monsanto's Frankengrass Sows Controversy
9/14 - Greenpeace Helps Americans Test Themselves for Mercury Contamination
9/14 - Western Ranchers Grazing on Federal Lands Seek Buy Out
9/14 - School Cafeterias Starting to Go Organic
9/14 - Black Farmers Sue USDA for Discrimination
9/14 - 100,000 Migrant Farmworkers in Dire Poverty After Florida's Hurricanes
9/12 - Debate Increases in Brazil over Planting GE Crops
9/12 - States Sue Government on Overuse of Pesticides in Public Housing Units
9/12 - Large Supermarket/Coffeehouse Chain in UK Switches to 100% Fair Trade Coffee
9/12 - Hawaiian Farmers Protest Aginst GE Papayas Polluting Their Crops
9/12 - Natural & Organic Body Care Products Market Expanding
9/12 - Common Sense: Should We Allow Corporations to Continue Controlling our Lives?
9/10 - New Film "The Future of Food" is Inspiring the Anti-GE Movementin America
9/10 - Food Giants Lay Out PR "Solution" to Obesity Epidemic--"Nutri-wash"
9/10 - USDA Still Undermining Organic Integrity
9/10 - Florida Natural Foods Stores Fear Impact of New Whole Foods Supermarkets
9/10 - Tracking the Corporate Takeovers in the Organic Industry
9/10 - Air Pollution Causes Lifelong Damage to Kid's Lungs
9/10 - WTO Rules U.S. Cotton Subsidies & EU Sugar Subsidies Are Illegal
9/10 - Prodigene Backs off Controversial Biopharm Corn Project in Texas
9/9 - Saving Natural Color--How An Organic Cotton Breeder Changed the World
9/9 - Help Get Organic Milk Into Your Kid's School
9/9 - PepsiCo Telling Consumers Cheetos are Healthy
9/9 - Hawaii Reports Widespread Contamination of Papaya Crop by GE Varieties
9/9 - EU Reaction to Pressure from White House on GMOs Angers Europeans
9/8 - Our Bodies, Ourselves A Toxic Stew Threatens Women
9/8 - Schwarzenegger Urged to Sign Bill Banning Hazardous Mercury-Tainted Vaccines for Children
9/8 - The Trouble with Non-Organic Tampons
9/8 - Pollution Triggers Bizarre Behavior in Animals
9/7 - Controversy over Wording of GMO Ban Initiative in Humboldt County CA
9/7 - Food & Chemical Industry Propagandists Attack Organic Food
9/7 - Anti-Frankenfoods Protesters Clash with Police in France
9/7 - GE Crops Laced with Drug Vaccines Are Hazardous
9/7 - NAFTA is Underlying Cause of GE Corn Contamination in Mexico
9/7 - Marker Assisted Breeding Will Replace Risky Gene Splicing of GMOs
9/7 - Cosmetics, Deodorants, Parabens, and Breast Cancer
9/7 - EU & US Intimidate & Bribe Global South to Maintain Billions in Farm Export Subsidies
9/7 - Globalization & Industrial Ag Driving Millions into City Slums
9/7 - OCA List of 10 Synthetic Chemicals to Avoid in Body Care Products
9/7 - Seattle Bans Soda & Junk Food from Schools
9/7 - Furor in New Zealand over Monsanto Withholding Data on GE Corn Rat Feeding Study
9/7 - Organic Sales in Brazil Increasing
30% Annually
9/7 - Can Organics Save the Family Farm
9/7 - U.S.-Massive Food Waste & Hunger Side by Side
9/3 - Monsanto Challenging Brazilian GMO Ban
9/3 - Schools & Day Care Centers to Serve Irradiated Beef to Children
9/3 - EU Ponders Allowing Trace Contamination of GMOs in Seed
9/3 - Killer Coke--The World is Not a Giant Supermarket
9/3 - Toxic Fire Retardant Chemical Found in Supermarket Foods
9/3 - Will Organics Displace Industrial Food at America's Ivy League Colleges?
9/3 - Genetically Engineered Coffee Plot in Latin America Destroyed
9/3 - Frankenfoods Are Not "Substantially Equivalent" to Normal Foods
9/3 - Bio-Imperialism--Why the Biotech Bullies Must Be Stopped
9/3 - Why Schools Should Remove GE-Tainted Foods from Their Cafeterias
9/2 - Organic Bytes #39 - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge!
9/2 - Che's Image Copyrighted by Atlanta Company Using Honduran Sweatshop to Produce T-Shirts
9/2 - Noam Chomsky on the Difference Between Kerry & Bush
9/2 - Bush Administration Driving Family Farmers off the Land
9/2 - Organic Farmers Using Heirloom Seeds to Produce Superior Crops
9/2 - Tips on Making Organic Food More Affordable
9/2 - Thailand Continues Its Ban on GMOs
9/2 - Bush Gang Proposes Lower Standard for Toxic Metal Contaminating Fish & Wildlife
8/31 - 500,000 People March Against Bush & the War in NYC
8/31 - Great New Book on How Corporations Are Brainwashing Children
8/31 - Thai Cabinet Rejects GMO Crop Approval
8/30 - California Wine Industry Threatened by Global Warming
8/30 - Via Campesina Call Commemorate Sacrifice of Farmer Lee
8/30 - King Corn and Cheap Calories Making Americans Fat
8/30 - Organic Food Will Become Part of School Curriculum in California District
8/30 - Food Giants Scramble to Avoid Obesity Lawsuits
8/30 - Dire Warnings on Earth's Tipping Points
8/30 - Garrison Keillor: Fascism Looms Over Lake Wobegon
8/30 - Multinationals Win, Small Farmers Lose, in Latest WTO Negotiations on Ag Subsidies
8/30 - Discredited Scientists Huddle with Industry on Frankencrops Pollution
8/29 - Global Struggle Over GE Food & Crops Continues
8/29 - Corporate Globalization: Overseas Sweatshops Destroy U.S. Garment Industry
8/29 - California Hospital Converts to Fair Trade Coffee!
8/29 - Fair Trade & Sustainability Certification: Real or Greenwash
8/29 - Prices Paid to Organic Farmers Hold Steady
8/26 - Monsanto's Monopoly of Biotech Sector Spurs Lawsuit
8/26 - RoundUp Resistance Spells the End of GE Crops
8/26 - Fossil Fuels Folly: The End of Ancient Sunlight
8/26 - Interview with Jose Bove, French Farm Leader, on Struggle Against Globalization
8/26 - GE Free Zones Around the World
8/26 - Ethiopia Will Feed Its Poor by Going Organic--Not GMO
8/25 -AMA Warns that Soda Pop is Major Health Hazard for Kids & Adults
8/25 -EPA Admits Mercury Has Tainted Fish Across the Entire USA
8/25 - Sustainable Agriculture Taking Hold in Restaurants
8/25 -Corporate Organic Quandary
8/25 -Beef recall affects Applebee's Restaurants
8/25 -Starbucks and CI's Eco-Imperialism in Chiapas
8/25 -Wall Street Still Holding Back on Renewable Energy
8/25 - Corporations Want Power Without Responsibility
8/25 - "Granny Green Genes" Lead the Charge for a GE Ban in HumboldtCounty California
8/23 - New "Future of Food" Movie is a Hit!
8/23 - USDA Accused of Letting "Sham Certifiers" into the National Organic Program
8/23 - Meat Consumption Taxing the World's Water Resources
8/23 - Twelve Reasons for Africa to Reject GM Crops
8/23 - Food Giants Accomplices in Force-Feeding of Frankenfoods
8/23 - Monsanto's GE Crops Likely Killing Off Monarch Butterflies
8/23 - Fox News Continues Persecution of Reporters Who Exposed Network Lies on Monsanto's rBGH
8/23 - New Network of Wealthy Donors Seek to Defeat Bush & Revitalize Progressive Movement
8/21 - Mysterious Mad Cow-Like Disease Surfaces in Washington State
8/20 - Huge Protests Expected at Republican National Convention in NYC
8/20 - Monsanto Continues Controversial "Frankenwheat" Experiments in Canada
8/20 - Bush & Congress Undermine Public Health for Payoffs from Drug & Agribusiness Lobbies
8/20 - Breaking Pledge, Monsanto Continues Field Tests of GE Wheat in Canada
8/20 - Anti-Frankenfoods Farmers in France Clash with Biotech Mercenaries
8/18 - USDA Still Misleading Americans Regarding Irradiated Beef
8/18 - California Agribusiness Vows to Suppress County GMO Bans
8/18 - USDA Subsidies: Fast Track for Government Pork Barrel
8/18 - Kerry Says He'll Back Plan to Protect Organic Farmers from GMO Contamination
8/18 - Starbucks Unionization Drive in NY Fails
8/18 - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Issue Finally Getting Noticed
8/18 - Sonoma County California Will Try to Get GE Ban on Ballot in 2005
8/18 - Sierra Club Opposes Controversial Biopharm Crops in Texas
8/18 - Are U.S. Farmers Starting to Back Off from GE Corn?
8/17 - Toxic Chemicals Fueling Epidemic of Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease
8/16 - SLO GE Free Campaign Update
8/16 - Protecting California Vineyards: Frankencrops or Sustainable Farming?
8/16 - Farmed Salmon Tainted by Flame Retardants
8/16 - Strong Resistance in Japan Against Genetically Engineered Foods & Crops
8/16 - Climate Stability Within Reach Using Current Technology
8/13 - Organic Bytes #38 - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge!
8/12 - More Evidence of Possible Allergenicity of Bt Corn in the Philippines
8/12 - USDA Screwed Up Testing for 500 Potential Mad Cows in Last Two Years
8/12 - America's Lawns Are Devastating the Environment
8/12 - New WTO Deal Protects US Agribiz
8/12 - Congress Applauded for Restrictions on Force-Feeding Irradiated Meat To Students
8/12 - Judge Spanks Bush Commerce Department Over Lowering "Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Standards
8/12 - California Rice Lobby Threatens to Kill County GMO Bans
8/11 - Wild Chinook Salmon Becoming Tainted with Toxic Chemicals
8/11 - Factory Farms Cause Big "Stink"
8/10 - Strong Links Between Lead Poisoning & Violent Behavior
8/9 - Dupont Denies Poisoning Consumers with Teflon Products
8/9 - Monsanto & Dow Deny Responsibility for Poisonous Herbicide Sprayed in Vietnam
8/9 - Bush Touts Plan to Promote Farm Land Conservation
8/9 - Alarm Over Planned Biopharm Corn in Texas Laced with Pharmaceutical Drugs
8/9 - Stay Calm--Prozac in Your Drinking Water
8/9 - Lawsuit Challenges Legality & Competence of USDA's New Accredited Organic Certifiers
8/7 - Summary of the Month's Major Developments on the Biotech Front
8/7 - Tainted Blood May Set Off New Epidemic of Human Mad Cow Disease in UK
8/6 - Global Warming Will Fuel Asthma Epidemic in U.S. Cities
8/6 - Farm Workers Contemplate National Boycott of Gallo Wines
8/6 - Organic Consumers Association: Biodemocracy News & Action Alert
8/5 - Don't Look Don't Find--Government Closes Top Mad Cow Laboratory
8/5 - Most U.S. Fresh Water Fish Contain Toxic Levels of Mercury
8/5 - Action Alert: Week of Action to Pressure M&M/Mars to Meet with Fair Trade Representatives
8/5 - "Killer Coke"-- Campaign Grows Against the Cola Giant
8/5 - WTO Says EU Sugar Export Subsidies Are Illegal
8/5 - Native American Perspective on Corporate Power
8/5 - Hawaii BioPharm Crop Locations To Be Made Public
8/4 - More News Coverage on Trinity County (CA) GMO Ban
8/4 - Second California County Bans Genetically Engineered Crops
8/4 - PRESS RELEASE: Trinity County California Board of Supervisors Vote to Ban Genetically Engineered Crops and Animals
8/4 - Only 13% of Americans Believe Drug Companies Are Honest
8/4 - Peer Review Slams Biotech Giant Takeover of University Biology Department
8/4 - Biotech's Latest Fantasy--Frankentree Plantations
8/4 - To Stop Terrorism Start Listening to Arab Women
8/3 - Black Farmers Still Waiting for Justice in Discrimination Settlement Against USDA
8/3 - National Farm Aid Concert Will Take Place in Seattle September 18
8/3 - Organic Farmers Organize to Save India's 700 Million Farmers and Rural Villagers
8/2 - New WTO Pact Threatens World's Poor Farmers & Rural Villagers
8/2 - So-Called "Green Revolution" Driving Thousands of Indian Farmers to Suicide
8/2 - Sweatshops Overrunning Honduras
8/2 - UK Scientists Warn that Nanotechnology is Out of Control
8/2 - Health Hazards of GE Foods by Jeffrey Smith
8/2 - Sustainable Ranching--Holistic Grass Farming is the Wave of the Future
8/2 - OCA & California County Activists Have Biotech Industry Rattled
8/2 - Bush EPA Gives Green Light to Toxic Pesticides
7/29 - Organic Cotton Clothing Sales Increase in the U.S.
7/29 - Organic Pet Food Flying off the Shelves
7/29 - Overview of Nat'l Academy of Sciences Whitewash on Health Hazards of GE Foods
7/29 - Argentina Protests Against Monsanto's Clear-Cutting Virgin Forests to Plant GE Soybeans
7/28 - Biotech Bullies Slander OCA & Growing Biodemocracy Alliance in California
7/28 - Parents Find Ways to Reduce Costs of Organic Food
7/28 - International Farmers Movement Calls for an End to Export Subsidies & Globalized Agriculture
7/28 - EPA Slammed for Failure to Regulate Dangerous Pesticides
7/28 - Can Psychopathic Corporations Be Brought to Heel?
7/28 - National Academy Whitewashes Hazards of GE Crops
7/26 - GE Free Sonoma (CA) Moving Forward
7/26 - Action Alert: Black Farmers' Fight for Justice
7/26 - Pressure Mounts for Ban on GE Pharm Rice & Other Crops in U.S.
7/26 - Study Shows How USDA Has Been Hijacked by Corporate Agribusiness
7/26 - Cattle Industry Calling for Mad Cow Testing
7/26 - Survey Shows Economic Gains for Organic Farmers
7/26 - Wal-Martians Invade Earth
7/26 - City Slickers Joining the Organic Revolution
7/26 - Protesters Rip Up GE Corn Crop in France
7/23 - Agribusiness Fears Growing Grassroots Movement to Ban Factory Farms
7/23 - Climate Change--Clash of the Corporate Titans
7/23 - Global Controversy Over GMOs Continues
7/23 - Debate Over Possible GE Crop Ban in California Rice Growing County
7/22 - Organic Bytes - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge! (Issue #37)
7/22 - Growing Global Movement to Ban Plastic Bags
7/22 - Animal Rights Video Exposes Cruelty in KFC Supply Chain
7/22 - House Republicans Undermining Global Pesticide Treaty
7/22 - USDA Obstructs Justice in Black Farmers' Lawsuit
7/22 - Sugar Wars: Coca-Cola & Junk Food Industry Under Attack
7/22 - US Farm Subsidies Plagued with Corruption
7/20 - Mountains of Food, Oceans of Hunger
7/20 - EU Still Refusing U.S. Frankenfood Exports
7/20 - New Wave of Back to the Land New Yorkers Adopt "Organic Lifestyle"
7/19 - Reuters on OCA & BioDemocracy Alliance Campaign in California
7/19 - The Troubling State of America's Children 2004
7/19 - TV Watching for Kids Linked to Smoking & Obesity
7/19 - Canada Fires Government Scientists Who Criticized Safety of Bovine Growth Hormone
7/19 - Can Organic & Genetically Engineered Crops Coexist?
7/19 - Biotech Bullies Try to Force Frankencrops on South Africa
7/19 - Most Food in U.S. Grocery Stores Will Be Organic by 2020
7/16 - Food Justice in San Francisco
7/16 - National Farm Group Supporting GE Free County Campaigns
7/16 - Union in NYC Wins Battle to Vote on Union at Starbucks
7/16 - USDA advised against mad cow test in 2002
7/16 - Bush's So-Called "Sound Science" Policies Endanger Public Health
7/16 - USDA's own audit slams its mad cow plan
7/15 - BioDemocracy Alliance Press in Sacramento News
7/15 - Wine Growers Declare War on GE Grapes
7/15 - EPA Refusing to Regulate Carcinogens to Protect Childrens Health
7/15 - Subway: The New King of Junk Food
7/14 - Is Biotech Industry Melting Down?
7/14 - Bush Team Push for Continued Use of Ozone Depleting Ag Chemical
7/14 - Understanding the Public's Rejection of GE Foods
7/13 - OCA PRESS RELEASE: New Alliance forms to Defend CA Campaigns to ban GE-Crops
7/13 - BioDemocracy Alliance in California
7/13 - More Alarm Bells Go Off on Biopharming
7/13 - Grist Magazine on Eco-Clothing
7/13 - FBI Harassment of Anti-GE Activist in Buffalo, NY Continues
7/13 - Food Stamps Subsidizing Junk Food
7/13 - Wine Growers Declare War on GE Grapes
7/13 - U.S. Wheat Growers Want Strict Policies on Biotech
7/13 - Promise & Perils of Gene- Altered "Frankenrice"
7/12 - ACTION ALERT: TRADER JOE'S STILL HAS NOT FULFILLED TWO-YEAR OLD PROMISE TO GO GMO-FREE
7/12 - Marin GE ban qualifies for ballot
7/12 - Factory Farming Undercover
7/12 - Biotechnology: Breeding hurdles and hype
7/12 - 79 Countries meet to Fight Illegal US Subsidies
7/12 - UK Soil Association Releases Fact Sheet on Key Health Benefits of Organic Foods
7/12 - Junking the Junk Food Machines in Schools
7/12 - Making Fair Trade Profitable
7/11 - Stem-cell Research and Reproductive Cloning Laws Should be Separate
7/11 - EU Officials don't approve Monsanto corn
7/11 - Organic standards remain under fire
7/10 - Organic Bytes - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge! (Issue #36)
7/10 - Tell Congress to Provide Funding for America's 3500 Farmers' Markets
7/10 - Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Beer Falls Flat in Europe
7/10 - The Truth About Sunscreens & Personal Care Products
7/9 - GE Free Hits the Big Screen
7/9 - Congress Moves Toward Mandatory Labels for Most Common Food Allergens
7/8 - International Consumers Condemn Dumping of Cotton & Other Subsidized Ag Crops
7/8 - IWW Labor Organizers Take On Starbucks in the Big Apple
7/7 - Action Alert: Tell Your Local School Board to Kick Junk Foods Out of Schools
7/7 - Vandana Shiva: Force-Feeding GMOs to the Poor
7/7 - Hazards of Monsanto's Roundup--Sprayed on Herbicide-Resistant GMO Crops Globally
7/7 - UK Protestors Paralyze Giant Food Chain over Use of GMO-Derived Animal Feed
7/6 - Feds Still Have Not Enacted Laws to Stop Spread of Mad Cow Disease
7/6 - Nanotech advancing in legal vacuum
7/5 - Medical Group Issues Guide to "Safe Fish Consumption"
7/5 - U.S. Farmers to Get $112 Million for GE Starlink Corn Contamination
7/5 - Sustainable Foods & Farms: Changing Minds As Well As Eating Habits
7/5 - Organic School Lunch Program Expands in California
7/5 - American Consumers Hungry for Organic Beef
7/5 - U. S. Agricultural Subsidies Under Fire from GAO & Global South
7/5 - Biotech Bully Forced to Allow Public Access to Toxicity Data on its Pesticides
7/4 - Hemp Food Industry Wins Another Court Victory over Bush's DEA
7/4 - Gene Traders: Excellent New Anthology on Biotech
7/4 - Organic Food Coming to Hospitals in Scotland
7/3 - US Consumers Avoiding Beef
7/1 - Scientists Report 80% of Cancer Cases Caused by Environmental & Food Carcinogens
7/1 - Defending Traditional Corn
7/1 - Gene Giant Syngenta to Move its Labs to U.S.
6/30 - SLO GE Free Submits Petitions
6/30 - GE Crops Ban Debate in Sonoma County, CA
6/30 - Yet Another Possible Mad Cow Gives Industry the Jitters
6/30 - Monsanto Donates $50,000 to Brainwash Kids
6/30 - 500,000 Consumers Tell Bush EPA to Stop Allowing Mercury Contamination in Food, Air, & Water
6/29 - Monsanto Likely Phasing Out Controversial Bovine Growth Hormone
6/29 - Two Thirds of U.S. Public Willing to Pay to Fight Global Warming
6/29 - India Develops Non-GE Pest-Resistant Cotton Varieties
6/29 - Germany Passes Strict Liability Law for GE Crop Contamination
6/28 - Italian Law Calls for All Organic Foods in Nation's Schools
6/28 - Beef Industry Nervously Awaits Test Results on Possible New U.S. Mad Cow
6/28 - Protesters Destroy Genetic Engineered Trees in Finland
6/28 - Californa BioDemocracy Update
6/25 - Sign-up for "A Crash Course in Changing America" - Training a New Generation to Run and Win Campaigns (July 1 deadline)
6/25 - Study Shows Near Total Lack of Data on Safety of Frankenfoods
6/25 - Organic Agriculture Can Help Stabilize Global Climate Change
6/25 - Senate Votes Against Forcefeeding Irradiated Meat to Schoolchildren
6/25 - San Luis Obisbo County California Will Likely Vote on GE Ban in November
6/24 - Imagine A World Without Monsanto
6/24 - Mexican Farmers Demand End to Imported GE Corn from US
6/24 - Wendell Berry on Agriculture, Spirituality, and America's Current Insanity
6/24 - Summary of Recent Global Developments in GMO Controversy
6/24 - Andean Nations Criticize U.S. Biopiracy of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
6/24 - Stop Deadly Corporate Marketing to Children
6/23 - Rocket Fuel Found in California Milk
6/23 - California Sues Tuna Companies for Not Labeling Mercury Contamination
6/23 - Bush "Report Card" on America's Mad Cow Crisis
6/23 - Wal-Mart Under Fire
6/22 - Genetically Engineered Cigarettes
6/22 - EU Blocks Imports of Monsanto's GE Canola
6/22 - Starbucks set to invade SE Asia
6/22 - Greenpeace Blocks Ship Bringing GE Animal Feed to UK
6/22 - Why GE Food is Inherently Dangerous
6/22 - WTO Orders U.S. to Eliminate Multi-Billion Dollar Subsidies to Cotton Farmers
6/22 - Organic Snack Foods Booming
6/19 - GMO Free Butte Makes Ballot in CA Rice Country
6/19 - Subsidies Still Hammering Poor Farmers
6/16 - USDA Classifies Frozen Fries as "Fresh Vegetables"
6/16 - Vermont Governor Signs Law Requiring Labeling of GE Seeds
6/16 - Global Criticism of United Nations Agency for Promoting GE Crops
6/16 - UK Group Exposes PR Apparatus Behind the Biotech Industry
6/16 - Alternative Media Reaching Millions of Americans Every Day
6/15 - Monsanto's Hollow Victory in the Percy Schmeiser Seed Saving Case
6/15 - Pharma Crops Spreading to Colorado
6/15 - Anti-Organic Lobby Tries to Distort Study Showing Safety of Organic Food
6/14 - Anti-GE Protests in San Francisco--Firsthand Report
6/13 - Coca-Cola Exploiting Child Laborers in El Salvador Sugar Cane Fields
6/13 - Agribusiness and the Decline of Nutritious Food
6/12 - New Canadian Film Documents Corporations' War on the Public
6/12 - Corporate Concentration in Food, Agriculture, Drug, & Biotech Sectors
6/12 - Lack of Labels on GE Foods Limit Choice for North American Consumers
6/12 - New Book: The Fate of Family Farming
6/11 - Organic Bytes #34 - Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge!
6/10 - India Bt Cotton Fails But Monsanto PR Propaganda Campaign Continues
6/10 - Mass Arrest of Protesters at Biotech Industry Convention in SF
6/10 - California Adrift in Biotech Legal Limbo
6/10 - Home Delivery System for Organic Produce Growing in SF & Los Angeles
6/10 - Government Pressured by Formula Companies to 'Water Down' Breast-feeding Ads
6/10 - Minneapolis Newspaper Editorializes Against Gene-Splicing Foods as Opposed to Gene-Mapping
6/9 - California BioDemocracy Update
6/9 - Are Farmers Getting a Fair Price for Fair Trade Labeled Products?
6/9 - Conventional Body Care Products Threaten Public Health
6/9 - Feds Go After Anti-Biotech Activist
6/9 - Making Organic Foods More Affordable
6/9 - Debate over GE Fish Heats Up
6/9 - Banana Republicans: Hot New Book from OCA Policy Board Member John Stauber
6/9 - Protesters Rattle the Biotech Industry in San Francisco
6/8 - Some Retail Chains Jacking Up Prices on Fair Trade Products
6/8 - Bush Administration To Increase Funding for Biotech Weapons
6/8 - Biotech Industry Fears Growing U.S. Movement Against Gene-Altered Foods & Crops
6/8 - Tell Congress to Get Our Schools Out of the Junk Foods Business
6/8 - Interview: Percy Schmeiser, the Man Who Took on Monsanto
6/8 - WIC Specialty Stores Exploiting Low-Income Moms & Infants
6/8 - Seeds of Doubt: GE's Globe Trotting Genes
6/7 - Vandana Shiva--Industrial Ag & Globalization Are Destroying Rural Communities Worldwide
6/7 - USDA Bureaucrat Insists Attempt to Lower Organic Standards Will Continue
6/7 - SF County Government to Vote on Supporting Anti-Biotech Protests
6/4 - Junk Food Wreaking Havoc on Kids
6/4 - GE Free Boulder County Campaign Launched
6/4 - Mad Cow's Wild Ride
6/4 - Biotech or Diet-Tech?
6/4 - GE Free Humboldt Confronts Farm Bureau
6/4 - EPA Licensing Factory Farms & Slaughterhouses to Continue Polluting
6/3 - Big Biotech Silencing Critics of Pesticides & GE Crops
6/3 - U.S. And Gene Giants Pressure Africa to Grow GE Crops
6/3 - Des Moines Register Calls for Green Farm Subsidies
6/2 - Secret Biopharm Plantings Increase Again After Contamination Incidents in 2002
6/2 - Solar, Wind, & Green Technology Market Starting to Boom
6/2 - Open Letter to USDA: Struggle Over Safeguarding Organic Standards is Not Over
6/2 - GE Free Butte Moves Forward
6/1 - OCA Helps "Evict" California Biopharm Company in Sacramento
6/1 - Paraben Preservatives in Body Care Products Threaten Children's Health
6/1 - FDA Failing to Remove Toxic Chemicals from Cosmetics
6/1 - Support Bill for Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Funding
6/1 - Study Suggests GE Food Damages Structure & Function of Liver
5/30 - Organic Bytes #33 - Consumer and Food News Tidbits with an Edge!
5/30 - Minnesota Townships Stop Agribusiness from Preventing Local Bans on Factory Farms
5/30 - Americans Increasingly Embracing Alternative Medicine and Natural Food Diets
5/30 - Resistance Mounts Against Extension of NAFTA to Central America
5/28 - VICTORY: USDA Reverses Weakening of Organic Standards!
5/28 - USDA Backs Down on Attempt to Degrade Organic Standards
5/28 - Mounting Debate in South Africa on GMOs
5/28 - Hazardous Biotech Corn Pharm Crops Secretly Cultivated in U.S.
5/28 - Monsanto's GE Crops Spawn Superweeds Across Indiana
5/28 - Silent Winter--Migratory Birds (& Human Guinea Pigs) Dining on Biopharm Rice
5/26 - Support the bill to protect pesticide drift victims!
5/26 - Biotech's Biopharm Crops Dying on the Vine
5/25 - Action Alert from Organic Family Farmers to USDA on Degrading Organic Standards
5/25 - Grist on the Hazards of Conventional Cosmetics
5/25 - GE-Free Zones Spreading in Europe
5/24 - Organic Food: Outcry Over Rule Changes
5/24 - Percy Schmeiser Responds to Monsanto Court Victory on Plant Patents
5/24 - Mad Sheep Disease (Scrapie) Infectious Agent Found in Muscle Tissue
5/24 - Pesticide Residues from Non- Organic Foods Building Up in Our Bodies
5/24 - Asia Farm & Consumer Groups Denounce UN FAO Support for GMOs
5/24 - McDonald's Shifts to non-GE Animal Feed for its Chickens in New Zealand
5/24 - New Study Indicates Thousands of Britons May Be Incubating Mad Cow Disease
5/22 - Canada Rules in Favor of Monsanto over Seed Saving Farmer Percy Schmeiser
5/21 - Today's Percy Schmeiser/Monsanto Court Decision of Global Significance
5/21 - Frankenfoods in EU--Politicians Give in to USA But Public Says No
5/21 - Global Organic Movement Denounces UN/FAO Support for Biotech
5/21 - Fortune 500 Face Mounting Pressure from Grassroots Campaigns
5/21 - Organic Lawn Care Movement Developing Across the U.S.
5/21 - Tell Congress to Stop Allowing the Marketing of Products to Children in Schools
5/21 - Global Anti-GMO Protests Accelerate
5/21 - 20 Ways to Reduce Your Intake of Chemicals in Body Care Products--Guardian UK
5/21 - Grist Magazine Covers the Organic Standards Controversy
5/21 - Pennsylvania State Legislature May Make Local & County GE Crop Bans Illegal
5/20 - Toxic Chemicals & Nanoparticles in Conventional Cosmetics Threaten Public Health
5/20 - US Lawsuit Against EU on GMO Ban is Hypocritical
5/20 - Technical Lifting of GMO Import Ban in EU Simply Fuels Consumer Resistance
5/18 - Canada's Supreme Court Decision May 21 on Percy Schmeiser/Monsanto Case
5/18 - USDA Alienates Japan by Being Evasive on Mad Cow Problem in the USA
5/18 - Campaign Against Obesity & Junk Foods Moves Forward
5/17 - Scripps News Service Cites OCA on "Beginning of the End" of GE Crops
5/17 - Excellent New Book on Threat of GE Foods to Organics by Ken Roseboro
5/17 - U.S. Anti-Sweatshop Effort Moves Forward
5/17 - GE Corn Polluting Adjoining Corn Fields Including So-Called "Refuges"
5/17 - Annual Organic Clothing Sales in U.S. Reach $85 Million
5/17 - New Studies on Pesticide Residues Alarm Consumers & Farmers
5/17 - Is Bush a Moron or Has He Deliberately Chosen to Stay Uninformed?
5/13 - Marin (CA) Announces Biotech Ban Initiative
5/13 - Monsanto is Imploding
5/13 - Consumers & Farmers Worldwide Rejecting Frankenfoods and Monsanto
5/13 - USDA Demands Silence from Government Employees on Possible Mad Cow in Texas
5/13 - Monsanto Backs off on Commercializing Gene-Altered Canola in Australia
5/12 - Organic Bytes #32 - Food and Consumer News Tidbits With an Edge!
5/12 - Open Letter from OCA on Registering Youth to Vote in 2004
5/12 - 10 Things Your Health Food Store Won't Tell You
5/12 - Seen it all? GE Low-Carb, Atkins Corn!
5/12 - WTO and Agriculture
5/11 - GE Food & Feed Not Fit for "Man or Beast" - Health Effects & Citations
5/11 - UN Urged to Ban Genetically Engineered Trees
5/11 - Brazil's Cotton Victory against Subsidies
5/11 - World Fair Trade Day Celebrated in 60 Countries
5/10 - OCA & Allies Declare Major Victory as Monsanto Drops GE Wheat
5/10 - "ACTION ALERT: Bush Administration moving to allow corporate takeover of organics!"
5/10 - Global Consumer Organizations Demand Labeling of GE Foods
5/10 - Factory Farming at its Worst
5/10 - GE Frankengrass--Coming to Your Local Golf Course?
5/10 - Labor Unrest Brewing at Whole Foods & Other Natural Food Supermarkets
5/10 - Greenpeace Stops Ship from Mixing GE & Non-GE Soybeans in Brazil
5/10 - Chicago Tribune on Body Care Products Labeled as Organic
5/10 - OCA Debates Food Irradiation Proponents
5/10 - New Zealand Debates Regional Control over GE-Free Zones
5/10 - Embattled Biotech Industry Seeks to Bring Non-Food GMOs to Market
5/7 - Study Shows Drugs Given to Chickens Expose Consumers to Arsenic & Cancer
5/7 - 15 African Nations Protest U.S. Force-Feeding GMOs on Starving Communities
5/7 - Pressure Mounts for Federal Inquiry Into Possible Mad Cow in Texas
5/7 - Take That, Cotton Subsidies!
5/7 - White House Opposing Efforts to Remove Cancer-Causing Chemicals from Food & Environment
5/7 - Percy Schmeiser--The Man Taking on Monsanto
5/7 - USDA Ordered that Suspected Mad Cow in Texas Not Be Tested
5/7 - Poll Finds Americans Prefer Family Farms
5/7 - Is USDA Deliberately Ignoring More Mad Cows in U.S.?
5/7 - Sierra Club List of rBGH-Free Cheese Companies
5/4 - San Luis Obispo moving forward on GE-Ban
5/4 - More on Brazil's WTO Cotton Challenge
5/4 - More Evidence on the Health Hazards of GE Food
5/4 - Zapatistas Launch Campaign Against Genetically Engineered Corn
5/4 - Africa: GM dumping-ground
5/4 - Mendocino Leading the Charge Against GMOs
4/30 - USDA Allowing Bogus Organic Labels on Fish from Fish Farms
4/30 - Norway & Other Nations Warn U.S. Not to Grow GE Wheat
4/30 - Corporate Power & Indentured Government Have Corrupted Science
4/30 - Federal Court Rules Monsanto's Fines for Seed Saving Are Excessive
4/29 - Wired Magazine: GMOs Are Dead, the Science Has Moved On
4/29 - Vermont Governor Signs Bill Requiring Labeling of GMO Seeds
4/29 - Illegal Cotton Subsidies
4/29 - Feds Allow "Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Rules to be Broken
4/29 - San Francisco Bans Iradiated Food in Schools!
4/29 - Religious Leaders Attack Bush's Environmental Policies
4/29 - Brazil Wins Case Against U.S. Cotton Subsidies & Dumping at the WTO
4/28 - Starbucks & Other Greenwashers Highjack Earth Day
4/28 - Dismissal of Climate Change Evidence Threatens Us All
4/28 - "European Biotech Manifesto"
4/27 - Why Americans Are Increasingly Resentful About Corporate Advertising
4/27 - Bush & the Beef Giants: Hiding the Mad Cow Problem
4/26 - USDA Forcing Veterinarians to Certify that Contaminated Meat Exports Are Safe
4/26 - European Greens Call for a Thousand GE-Free Zones
4/26 - America's 18,000 Golf Courses Are Devastating the Environment
4/26 - US GE Corn Decimating Mexican Countryside
4/23 - Organic Bytes #31- Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge!
4/23 - USDA Under Fire for Degrading Organic Standards
4/23 - San Luis Obisbo (CA) Considering GE Ban
4/23 - Update on GE-Free Zones in Europe
4/23 - USDA's Obstruction of Universal Mad Cow Testing by Kansas Company is Backfiring
4/23 - "Success" of GE & Industrial Ag in U.S. Based Upon Suppression of Democracy
4/23 - BioDemocracy Spreading in Butte County, California
4/23 - Most of US Still Believe White House Propaganda on WMD & Iraq/al-Queda Links
4/22 - Wall Street Reacts to Strict New European Labeling Rules for GMOs
4/22 - African Cotton Farmers Reject GE Crops
4/22 - BioDemocracy Spreading in Venezuela
4/21 - MoveOn Proving that Progressive Online Organizing Works
4/21 - Unsustainable Ag Threatening World's Water Supply
4/20 - Food & Gene Giants Dread New EU Labeling Laws on GMOs
4/20 - Cosmetic Companies Debate Removing Carcinogenic Chemicals from Products
4/20 - OCA Criticizes GE Alfalfa Field Trials in California
4/20 - Battle Over Local Rights to Ban Factory Farms in Pennsylvania
4/20 - North Dakota Petition Drive May Put Controversial GE Wheat Issue on the Ballot
4/20 - Junk Food/Obesity Lawsuits Alarm U.S. Food Giants
4/19 - Ignacio Chapela: How Big Biotech Bullies Its Critics
4/19 - Strict Labeling Laws on GMOs Come Into Force in the EU
4/19 - GE Corn Contaminating Corn's Cradle
4/19 - Costa Rica becoming an Organic Powerhouse
4/19 - Gene Giants Abandon Field Trial in the UK
4/16 - Consumers Condemn USDA Retreat From Enforcing Organic Labeling on Non-Food Products
4/16 - Grassroots Pressure & Industry Unease Put GE Pharm Rice on Back Burner
4/16 - Frankensoya: Monsanto and Genetic Engineering Are Destroying Argentina's Farmlands
4/16 - UK: Is the Organic Revolution Losing its Soul?
4/15 - The American Farm Bureau--Forcing Frankenfoods & Toxic Chemicals on the Public
4/15 - Consumers Are Fed Up with Corporate Advertising & Manipulation
4/15 - Corporate Tax Dodging Has Become the Norm in America
4/14 - US Still Allows Mad Cow Feeding Practices
4/14 - EU Organic Market Has Doubled in Last Five Years
4/14 - Organic Farmers Protest USDA Weakening Organic Standards
4/14 - Beef Packer to Fight USDA on Mad Cow Testing
4/14 - Americans Shrinking as Junk Food Takes its Toll
4/13 - India Becoming a Dumping Ground for GE Crops
4/13 - Dairy Farms Go Organic to Survive
4/13 - Aspartame Lawsuits Accuse Food Giants of Poisoning Consumers
4/13 - Debate Over GMOs Simmers in China
4/13 - Bio-Engineered Lawn & Golf Course Grass May Spawn Superweeds
4/13 - Vermont Legislature Votes for Mandatory Labeling of Gene-Altered Seeds
4/13 - Controversial Gene-Altered Pharm Rice Put on Hold in California
4/13 - USDA Terrified of Finding More Mad Cows
4/13 - Why Genetically Engineered and Organic (or Non-GE) Crops Cannot Co-Exist
4/13 - CA Victory: Permit for Pharma Rice Denied
4/8 - Another African Nation, Angola, Rejects GE-Tainted Corn as Food Aid
4/8 - Mad Cow Disease May Have Spread into Sheep
4/8 - California Voters Say No to Wal-Mart Superstore
4/8 - Starbuck$ One of Ten Worst Corporate Hypocrites/Greenwashers in America
4/8 - Japan Resists White House Pressure on Mad Cow Beef Imports Issue
4/7 - Bush Administration Will Sweep Mad Cow Crisis "Under the Rug" Until After Elections
4/7 - Senators Seek Probe of Mysterious Cluster of CJD (Mad Cow-Like Disease)
4/7 - Public Interest Activists Ponder Global Wal-Mart Pressure Campaign
4/7 - More on UK Remaining GE-Free
4/6 - Brainwashed U.S. Farmers Plant Yet More Transgenic Corn & Soybeans
4/6 - White House Paralyzed on Greater Regulation of Frankencrops & Animals
4/6 - GE-Free Zones Spreading in Australia Despite U.S. Pressure
4/6 - Children's TV Watching Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder
4/6 - Children's TV Watching Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder
4/6 - Developers, Disguised as Farmers, Milking the System
4/5 - Washington Suburb Moving Toward Pesticide-Free Lawns
4/5 - Canada's Prince Edward Island Debates Whether to Go GE-Free
4/5 - California's Proposed GE Pharm Rice Could Poison Unsuspecting Consumers
4/5 - EU's Appetite for Beef Destroying Amazon Rainforest
4/5 - NAFTA: Truth and Consequences on Corn dumping
4/5 - Pesticides Causing Infertility in the Heartland
4/5 - Mad Cow Disease and Conventional Cosmetics--Consumers Beware
4/5 - New South Wales Strikes Another Blow Against Monsanto--No GE Canola
4/5 - Stop Biopharm Rice: Consumers Union, OCA, and Allies' Letter to California Officials
4/5 - Debunking the Myth that the U.S. "Has the Safest Food in theWorld"
4/5 - NanoParticles Shown to Cause Brain Damage
4/5 - UN Expert Says WTO Impoverishing Two Billion Global Farmers
4/5 - Scientists Raising Concerns Over GMOs Face Repression
4/5 - Bush Gang Undermine Global Drive to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals
4/5 - If They Plant Them, We'll Pull Them Up--Anti-GE Activism in UK
4/1 - ACTION ALERT - Stop GE Pharmaceutical Rice in California
4/1 - Public Interest Group Pressures Corporations to Move Toward Sustainability
4/1 - BioDemocracy Spreading in California
4/1 - UK - Bayer withdraws GM Maize
3/30 - Japanese Trade Delegation Warns North Dakota on GE Wheat
3/30 - Industry Study on Why Millions of Americans Are Buying Organic Foods
3/30 - Nanotechnolgy Study Raises Health Concerns
3/30 - Genetically Engineered Rice Threatens California
3/29 - ORGANIC BYTES #30
3/29 - CJD Cluster in NJ--Is Mad Cow Striking Down Americans?
3/29 - OCA & Global Exchange Protest at Starbucks Shareholders Meeting in Seattle
3/29 - California Proposes Testing All Cows for Mad Cow Disease
3/29 - Mad Cow USA: OCA on Why Meat Eaters Should Go Organic
3/29 - Genetically Engineered Children: Biotech Scientists Prepare to Play God
3/27 - Monsanto's GE Wheat Stirs Up Major Resistance in Canada & Japan
3/27 - Greenpeace Takes Action Against Test Plot of GE Wheat in Switzerland
3/27 - Grassroots & Local Enviromental Groups Growing Across the U.S.
3/27 - Scientists Prepare to Use Nanotechnology to Poison Us All?
3/27 - Activists Force Home Depot to Adopt More Sustainable Practices
3/27 - USA Today Says USDA Should Allow U.S. Ranchers to Test All Beef for Mad Cow
3/27 - Monsanto Will Try to Collect Royalties on Brazilian Soy Imports
3/27 - Wales & Scotland Move to Maintain GE Moratorium in Britain
3/26 - USDA's Top Official on Mad Cow Testing Resigns
3/26 - Are Bt Corn & Cotton Seed Slowly Poisoning Animals & Humans?
3/26 - Second Major State in Australia Bans a GE Crop
3/26 - New Tactic for Brainwashing McKids--A Clothing Line
3/26 - Rural Communities Rise Up Against Factory Farms
3/25 - Consumers & Farmers Call for GE Moratorium in Vermont
3/25 - GE Crop Ban May Spread Across Australia
3/25 - Monsanto Freaks Out Over GE Ban in Western Australia
3/24 - Comment Period on USDA's Proposed Regulations for GMO's Extended
3/24 - EU Urged to Reject GE Rice
3/24 - Consumers Creating Market for Sustainable Wood Products
3/24 - How Greedy Corporations Are Making American Children Fat
3/24 - Western Australia Bans GE Crops
3/23 - Japanese Consumers Tell Canada to Back off on GE Wheat
3/23 - Land Use & the Precautionary Principle
3/23 - Opposition to GE Wheat Builds in Canada
3/23 - Monsanto Dealings in Indonesia Investigated
3/22 - California Sets Limits for Perchlorate Levels in Water
3/22 - New York Times Cites OCA on Inadequacy of USDA's Mad Cow Testing
3/22 - Growing Opposition to GE Wheat from Canadian Farmers
3/22 - Feds Issue New Advisory on Fish Safety
3/19 - States Pass Bills to Protect Junk Food Companies from Obesity Lawsuits
3/19 - Schools Across U.S. Target Vending Machines in Obesity Controversy
3/19 - How "Natural" or "Free-Range" is Your Food--Eco-LabelsDemystified
3/19 - Global Peace Movement Protests on Anniversary of Iraq War
3/19 - Consumers Union Says USDA Plan to Test More Cows for BSE Not Enough
3/19 - Mad Cow & Food Safety Drive Organic Sales
3/19 - US Bullying Impoverished Sudan to Accept GE Crops & Foods
3/19 - WTO's Global Food Rulemaking Body, Codex, to Discuss GE Food Labels
3/19 - Monsanto May Force U.S. Approval of GE Wheat Even if Canada Says No
3/18 - Action Alert--BioDemocracy Under Attack: Defend the Mendocino Ban
3/18 - Hightower on Monsanto and OCA
3/18 - Third World Farmers Hammered by Subsidized Imports and WTO
3/16 - GE Corn Threatens Corn's Cradle, NAFTA Report
3/16 - Short list: What's Wrong with Factory Farming?
Junk Food Giants Spend Billions Brainwashing Consumers & Buying Politicians
3/16 - Brand Name Foodmakers Are Exploiting Two Million Farmworkers inthe U.S.
3/16 - Web Sites Dealing with GE Wheat Controversy
3/16 - Viral Promoter in GE Corn May Be Cause of Illnesses in Philippines
3/16 - Mexico Warned on Dangers of U.S. GE Corn Exports
3/16 - Natural Corn Killers
3/16 - Food Safety--Why People Are Turning to Organics
3/15 - Blood & Manure Still Fed to U.S. Cattle for Two More Months
3/15 - Monsanto's Transgenic Soybeans Found Guilty by People's Court in Brazil
3/15 - U.S. State Department Helps Force GE Crops on the World Market
3/12 - USDA Obstructing Mad Cow Testing By Beef Producers in the U.S.
3/12 - Vermont Senate Passes Historic Law to Protect Farmers from GMO Contamination
3/12 - Blair's Move to Force Feed GE Corn in UK--A Hollow Victory
3/12 - Report from the Grassroots--The Mendocino Victory
3/12 - Pro-Biotech Propagandists Challenge Organic Community
3/12 - Cancer-Causing GE Pharm Rice Being Grown in Canada
3/12 - Mendocino GE Ban Sows Seeds of Dissent
3/12 - UK Gives OK to First GE Crop Since 1998
3/12 - Seeds of Distraction--Gene Giants Step Up Disinformation Campaign
3/10 - Farm Workers March Across US
3/10 - Biotech PR Smoke Screen
3/10 - USDA's Key Mad Cow Witness Keeps Silent
3/9 - Organic Trade Association Task Force Rejects Counting Ordinary Water as Organic in Body Care Products---OCA's Coming Clean Campaign Changed Industry Attitudes
3/8 - Biopharm Crops--Brave New Transgenics
3/8 - US Escalates Trade War with EU over GMOs
3/8 - UK in an Uproar over GMO Crops
3/8 - Mendocino GE Ban Rattles the Biotech Industry
3/8 - Canada Island May Boot GMO Crops
3/8 - Battle Over Life Form Patents Continues
3/5 - Did USDA Falsify Records on Mad Cow in Washington State?
3/5 - Agribusiness Seeks to Keep Using Ozone Destroying Chemical
3/5 - Green Home Building Movement Spreading
3/5 - GMO = Get Monsanto Out?
3/5 - Time Magazine Covers the Growth of Fair Trade Coffee in U.S.
3/5 - New Studies Set off Alarms on Health Hazards of GMOs
3/3 - Mendocino County bans biotech crops!!
3/2 - Mendocino Today, Humboldt Tomorrow
3/2 - Pentagon Continues Polluting Drinking Water & Produce with Toxic Perchlorate
3/2 - Huge Increase in GE Soya Production in Argentina Creates Nightmare
3/1 - Press Release: OTA Task Force Vote for "Organic Water" Scheme Revoked
3/1 - More on Historic Mendocino Anti-GE Ballot Initiative
3/1 - Biosafety Pact Threatens Biotech Bullies
3/1 - Frankencrops Debate Heats Up in Vermont
3/1 - Will Allen--World Social Forum Speech on King Cotton and U.S.Farm Subsidies
3/1 - International Gathering Endorses Stricter Labels for GMO Exports
3/1 - GMOs on the run in Northern California
2/29 - Gene Giant Bayer Backs off GE Grains in EU
2/29 - Philippine Study on Frankencorn Allergenicity Generates Controversy
2/28 - EU & Developing Nations Clash with U.S. Over GMO Treaty
2/28 - USA Today covers Mendocino
2/27 - USDA Threatens Beef Company Planning to Test All Cows for Mad Cow Disease
2/27 - Bird Flu Spreading to Humans Could Cause a Global Epidemic
2/26 - Big Biotech Shells Out Almost $400k to Defeat Mendocino GMO Ban
2/26 - Mad Cow Censorship in California
2/26 - Studies Indicate Serious Human Health Hazards from GMOs
2/26 - Vermont Legislators May Vote on State GMO Moratorium
2/26 - China Gives Approval to Import U.S. GE Soybeans & Corn
2/26 - Study Indicates Viral Promoter Found in Most GE Foods May Pose Health Threat
2/25 - PR Flaks Worry About Outcome of Mendocino County Vote to Ban GE Crops
2/25 - Voices of the Coffee Crisis in Chiapas
2/25 - Natural Supplement Company Nixes Cow Brains & Nervous System Tissues
2/25 - Guide to Which Fish Are Safe to Eat
2/25 - More on Allergic Reactions of Philippine Farmers to Monsanto's GE Corn
2/25 - High Income Americans Turning Against Free Trade
2/25 - U.S. Senator Slams FDA & USDA on Mad Cow
2/24 - PRESS RELEASE: "Organic Water" Scheme Threatens Meaningful U.S. Organic Standards for Food and Personal Care
2/24 - Court Fines Tyson Foods $1.3 Billion for Swindling Cattle Ranchers
2/24 - Genetically Engineered DNA Contaminating Traditional U.S. Seed Varieties
2/24 - Nations Debate Safety of GMOs at International Biosafety Meeting
2/24 - Philippine Peasants Suffer Health Problems from Breathing in GMO Corn Pollen
2/24 - Fact Sheet on U.S. Cotton Subsidies and Cotton Production
2/23 - Biotech Industry Spends $300,000 to Stop California County fromBanning GMOs
2/23 - Showdown in Mendocino garnering National Attention
2/23 - Iowa Bureaucrats Embrace Controversial BioPharm Crops
2/22 - Enviro Groups Denounce Government OK to Test Pesticides on Humans
2/22 - Pentagon Warns Bush That Radical Climate Change is World's Most Serious Threat
2/21 - Organic Bytes #28: Organic Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge
2/20 - UK Will Approve GE Corn Despite Massive Public Opposition
2/20 - Global Biotech News of the Week
2/20 - Internal Debate in Biotech Industry over Growing Pharm Crops
2/20 - Commercial Fishermen support Mendocino's GMO Ban
2/19 - OCA Files Formal Complaint to the USDA's National Organic Program Against "Organic Water" Scheme
2/19 - Last Chance to Stop Genetically Engineered Wheat!
2/19 - Washington Post Covers OCA Complaint on Fraudulent Organic Labels
2/19 - USDA's Mad Cow Coverup in Washington Exposed
2/19 - New Publications Expose Monsanto's Corporate Crimes
2/19 - World Treaty on Biotech Exports Threatens U.S. Force-Feeding of GMOs
2/19 - How Now Mad Cow - by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
2/19 - Paul Hawken on Dean, Kerry, Bush, Whole Foods, and Saving the Earth
2/19 - Nalgene Water Bottles May Be Hazardous to Your Health
2/18 - U.S. Mad Cow Was Not a "Downer" Cow After All
2/17 - Mad Cow Bombshell--New Strain May Be Infecting Many More Americans & Europeans
2/17 - Panel Calls for More Mad Cow Testing in U.S.
2/16 - Mendocino Ballot Measure to Ban GMOs Heating Up
2/16 - New Report on Corporate Takeover of Organic Industry Available Online
2/16 - Independent Coffee Houses, Endangered Species in the Starbucks Age?
2/15 - Global Update on GE Crops: Stupid White Men Still in Charge
2/15 - The Biotech Brigade--A Guide to Defeating Covert PR
2/15 - Bt Cotton Benefits Short-Lived in India
2/14 - Skip the (Non-Organic & Non-Fair Trade) Chocolates & Flowers for Valentine's Day
2/13 - Hemp Industry Demands Apology from DEA After 3 Years of Harassment
2/13 - Biopirates on the Run in Malaysia
2/13 - Monsanto Bio-Pirating Indian Wheat
2/13 - Organic, Fair Trade Only Option for Mexican Coffee Growers
2/12 - Monsanto Fights With Farmers in Argentina Over Seed Saving
2/12 - Mexico Accepts Weak Labels on Exports of US Frankencorn
2/11 - GE Crops, Including Cotton, Are Failing
2/11 - Wales & Scotland Block Blair's Attempt to Force GE Corn on Britons
2/10 - Mad Deer Disease Spreading Across the USA
2/10 - Chicken Flu Outbreak in Delaware Rattles Industry
2/10 - U.S. Testing Program for Mad Cow is in Shambles
2/10 - Organic Soy Products in UK Contaminated with GMOs
2/10 - Eating More Meat--Low Carb Diets Impact the Environment
2/10 - Californians for GE Free Agriculture Move Forward
2/9 - Japan & Korea Suspend U.S. Poultry Imports
2/9 - Federal Court Rules DEA Cannot Ban Hemp Foods
2/9 - Fair Trade Bananas and other Products Now Spreading in U.S.
2/9 - FDA Not Protecting Children from Mercury in Fish
2/9 - New Study--Thousands of U.S. Babies at Risk from Mercury Poisoning
2/6 - Expert Panel Says Stop Feeding Pig & Chicken Slaughterhouse Waste to Cows
2/6 - Seafood to Get Country of Origin Labels
2/6 - International Expert Panel Says Mad Cow is Likely Spreading in US
2/6 - Bush Ignores Potential Threat of Bird Flu
2/6 - What Are Monsanto & the FDA Hiding Regarding Controversial Cow Hormone?
2/4 - Update on Schmeiser/Monsanto Trial Before Canada's Supreme Court
2/3 - Ending U.S. Cotton Subsidies, Not GE Cotton, Key to Reducing Poverty of African Farmers
2/2 - How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age
2/2 - Why Buy Organic Flowers for Valentine's Day & Everyday
2/2 - Japan Insists US Must Test All Cows for Mad Cow
2/2 - Biotech Industry in a Panic to Defeat GMO Ban in California County
2/2 - Mad Cow Raises Safety Issues on Cosmetics & Nutritional Supplements
2/2 - Monsanto's GE Potato Fails in Africa
1/29 - ORGANIC BYTES #27
1/29 - Bush Administration Will Continue to Ignore Pesticide Laws
1/28 - Mad Cow Puts Blood Supply at Risk
1/28 - More on Monsanto's Cutback of Controversial Cow Hormone
1/28 - FDA Partially Tightens Up Feed Rules to Stop Spread of Mad Cow
1/28 - Organic Agriculture Is Alive & Well in Egypt
1/28 - EU Farm Animals To Go Drug Free
1/28 - Consumers Union Says New Improved FDA Rules on Mad Cow Don't Go Far Enough
1/28 - Bush in Bed with the Global Obesity Lobby
1/28 - Monsanto May Drop GE Wheat Due to Farmer & Consumer Opposition
1/28 - FDA's New Proposed Measures to Stop Mad Cow Are 'Too Little, Too Late"
1/28 - Agribusiness Pumping Money into Front Groups to Sway Mad Cow Debate
1/26 - More Bad News for the Biotech Bullies
1/26 - USDA Pondering Minor Changes in Regulating GE Crops
1/26 - Judge Bans Pesticide Spraying Near Salmon Runs
1/25 - Monsanto Announces Mysterious Cut Back in Production of Controversial Bovine Growth Hormone
1/23 - The High Price of Cheap Food
1/23 - Unions Extend Strike Against Safeway, Kroger, & Albertson's Nationwide
1/23 - Eating Chicken May Boost Arsenic Exposure
1/23 - Too Much Sugar
1/22 - Update on Mad Cow Crisis by John Stauber, Author of Mad Cow USA
1/22 - Monsanto Tries to Force Farmers to Stop Saving Their Seeds in Argentina
1/22 - Organics Advance in Foodservice Sector
1/21 - Corporate Organic Squeezing Out Small Producers in U.K.
1/21 - Organic & Sustainable Wine Production Expanding Rapidly in California
1/21 - New Reports Show GMOs Inevitably Pollute the Environment
1/21 - Schmeiser/Monsanto Court Battle Generates Global Interest
1/20 -DEA's Insane Policy on Banning Industrial Hemp in USA
1/20 -Japan: US BSE Measures still lacking
1/20 -EPA Sued for Secret Pact with Chemical Companies
1/20 -Small Farmer Fights Monsanto in Canada's Supreme Court
1/20 - Monsanto Halts GE Soybean Sales in Argentina, Their Second Largest Market
1/19 - Organic Bytes #26 - Organic and Food News Tidbits with an Edge
1/19 - Global Summary of Recent News on GE Crops
1/19 - Wall Street Points Out Mad Cow Testing in US Has Been Bogus
1/19 - Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder
1/19 - Upcoming Schmeiser/Monsanto Court Case Has Global Implications for Life Form Patents
1/19 - Worker at Washington Meat Plant that Slaughtered Mad Cow Tells All
1/19 - More Poverty as NAFTA Turns 10
1/16 - Fair Trade Coffee on the Rise
1/16 - Canada Begins to Get Soda Pop out of Schools
1/16 - Genetic Engineering Draining Funds for Sustainable Development
1/15 - Organic Beef Sales Take Off
1/15 - Biotech Industry Frantically Spending $ to Stop GMO Ban inMendocino County, CA
1/15 - U.S. Cotton Subsidies: Killing Farmers & Poisoning Consumers & the Earth
1/15 - GE Debate Remains Intense in UK
1/15 - Stop EPA from Labeling Toxic Sewage Sludge as Organic "Compost"
1/14 - White House Taking Tighter Control Over Regulatory Agencies
1/14 - Mad cow's untold story: Studies quietly raise questions about threat to humans
1/14 - Native Arctic People Being Poisoned By Their Food
1/14 - 20% of Americans Say Mad Cow Will Affect Eating/Buying Habits
1/14 - U.S. Testing for Mad Cow Disease Inadequate
1/14 - Culture of indifference leaves America open to BSE
1/13 - Canada's Organic Farmers Tell Monsanto to Drop GE Wheat Project
1/13 - Another Setback for Monsanto on GE Wheat
1/13 - Beware of Paraben Preservatives in Body Care Products
1/11 - A Short-Order Revolutionary
1/11 - Sen Boxer Calls for Comprehensive Mad Cow Testing
1/11 - Biotech Critics Under Attack
1/11 - Choosing regulation over complaining would have protected the beef industry's reputation
1/11 - Judge in Monsanto Seed Price Fixing Case Accused of Conflict of Interest
1/11 - Why Organic Beef is Safer than Conventional Beef
1/11 - Global Meat & Grain Depopulate the Countryside
1/11 - U.S. Calves Still Fed Cow Blood -- 'Stupid' Says Nobel Laureate
1/10 - Mad Cows in a Mad World
1/10 - Italy Leads in Organic Catering for Schools
1/10 - Cattle Futures: Michael Pollan from the New York Times
1/10 - Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food
1/10 - Monsanto Uses False Advertising to Promote GMO’s in Brazil
1/10 - California County Ballot Measure to Ban Biotech Crops Scares Industry
1/10 - Study Shows Farmed Salmon Contain Dangerous Levels of Toxic Chemicals
1/10 - Biopiracy Nominations - Last Call
1/10 - U.S. May Exempt Organic Farmers From Fees
1/9 - U.S. May Already Have Thousands of Cases of Human Mad Cow Disease (CJD)
1/9 - Fact Sheet on Organic Beef Production in the US
1/9 - Recipe for Disaster--Feeding US Calves on Cattle Blood
1/8 - Buying Off the Watchdog
1/8 - Berkeley Denies Tenure to World Renowned Biotech Critic Ignacio Chapela
1/7 - GE Crops in the Developing World Are a Fraud
1/7 - California Congressman Calls for Testing All Cows for Mad Cow Disease
1/7 - USDA lacks power to inform public, mandate returns
1/7 - Monsanto Accused of Price Manipulation of Seeds
1/7 - Industry Slowing Action on Mad Cow Disease - Activists
1/7 - U.S. slow to act on mad cow tests
1/6 - A Bum Steer On Mad Cow Disease
1/6 - Pediatricians Say Ban Sodas in Schools
1/6 - Holstein Dairy Cows and the Inefficient Efficiencies of Modern Farming
1/6 - Agribusiness Front Group Attacks OCA and other Critics of U.S.Policies on Mad Cow
1/6 - Mad cow disease a byproduct of beef industry profits
1/6 - Mad Cow Forces Beef Industry to Change Course
1/5 - Monsanto Temporarily Backs off on GE Wheat in Canada
1/5 - Mad Cow May Push Consumers Toward Organic Foods
1/4 - Consumer Group Denounces USDA Measures on Preventing Mad Cow Disease
1/3 - Presidential Candidate Kucinich Calls for Stricter Mad Cow Rules
1/3 - EPA Refuses to Protect Food Supply from Sewage Sludge
1/3 - Monsanto's Victory in Maine rBGH Lawsuit A setback for Consumers
1/3 - GMO-Free Mendocinco Wins Legal Battle Against Biotech Industry
1/2 - Cattle lobby defeated downer cow legislation just months ago
1/2 - Farm Animals Fed an 'Ocean of Blood' in the U.S.
1/2 - UCSF Mad Cow test could test thousands a day, cost pennies
1/2 - Invasion of the Virtually Indestructible Protein
1/1 - John Stauber:Mad Cow USA--The Nightmare Begins

Organic News Archive webpages posted in 2004

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webpages posted in 2004