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Issue #235 7/29/10 - HTML
- Quote of the Week: "The future of life on this planet may depend on what we eat."
- Alerts of the Week:
- Sign the "Food Agenda 2020" Petition
- Ask Alice Waters to Stand Up Against Toxic Sludge
- Stop Antibiotic Abuse
- Video of the Week: Cooking Up a Story - Diet for a Hot Planet
- Little Bytes
Issue #234 7/22/10 - HTML
- Quote of the Week: "Every year 220,000 people are killed by pesticides worldwide"
- Alert of the Week: Top 10 Reasons to Label Genetically Engineered Food
- Videos of the Week:
- The Story of Cosmetics
- Pig Business
- FreeDocumentaries.org
- Little Bytes
Issue #233 7/16/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- History Lesson of the Week: How Monsanto Got Their Permit to Poison Us
- Alert of the Week: Tell Obama's FDA to Regulate, Not Cheerlead for Genetically Modified Organisms
- Resource of the Week: Four Simple Ways to Avoid GMOs
- Millions Against Monsanto: Vote Monsanto into the Corporate Hall of Shame
- Victory of the Week: OCA's Coming Clean Campaign in the New York Times
- Videos of the Week
- Radio of the Week: Ronnie Cummins on GE Salmon
- Little Bytes
Issue #232 7/8/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: UN Says Organic Farming Can Feed World, Save Climate
- Alert of the Week: Dupont Dame Follows Monsanto Men Into Obama Administration
- Scandal of the Week: Ethanol and Animal Feed from Monsanto's GE Corn Are the Biggest Culprits in Gulf Dead Zone
- Video of the Week: Toxic Chemical Lobby - Exclusive Leaked Footage
- Little Bytes
Issue #231 7/1/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "If you put a label on genetically engineered food..."
- Puzzle of the Week: Monsanto Says What? "Buy Organic to Avoid GMOs"
- Alert of the Week: Stop Frankenfish!
- Video of the Week: Haiti - The Aid Dilemma
- Little Bytes
Issue #230 6/24/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Dennis Kucinich on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
- Alert of the Week: Ask Your Reps to Sponsor Bill to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
- Are Your Federal Representatives Monsanto's Minions?
- Video of the Week: GMOs - Hidden Ingredient
- Little Bytes
Issue #229 6/17/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Monsanto's RoundUp "May Have Dire Consequences for Agriculture"
- Alerts of the Week:
- Gen-M (Generation Monsanto): Why We Need Labels on GM Foods
- Congressman Conaway Attacks Organic Certification Cost-Share Program
- Videos of the Week: "Store Wars" and the GM Watch Video Collection
- Little Bytes
Issue #228 6/10/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Whole Foods Puts Organic Integrity in the Health & Beauty Aisle
- Victory of the Week: Whole Foods 1st Retail Chain to Act on Demands of OCA's Coming Clean Campaign
- Alerts of the Week:
- Paper Companies Plant Genetically Engineered Trees
- Stop Methyl Iodide
- From Copenhagan and Cochabamba to Cancun - Join the OCA at the historic COP 16 Climate Conference
- Video & Book of the Week: Diet for a Hot Planet
- Little Bytes
Issue #227 6/3/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Article of the Week: Change the World, Go Organic
- Alert of the Week: Demand Organic in Climate Change Bill
- Haiti Alert Update: Seeds, Democracy, and Farmers Under Siege
- End the Travel Ban on Cuba - Contact Your Representative Today!
- Monsanto and the Threat of Geoengineering
- Video of the Week: The Dark Side of Chocolate
- Little Bytes
Issue #226 5/28/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: GM Foods Cause Sterility
- Alert of the Week: Monsanto & the Supreme Court
- Video of the Week: Hammy the Hamster Goes Organic
- Little Bytes
Issue #225 5/21/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Monsanto, Haiti's "New Earthquake"
- Alert of the Week: Monsanto's Poison Pills for Haiti - Take Action in Solidarity with Haitian Farmers Who Vow to Burn Monsanto's Fungicide-Coated Seeds
- Video of the Week: Monsanto Plants Shut Down by Activists in Europe
- June 22-26, 2010: US Social Forum in Detroit
- Little Bytes
Issue #224 5/14/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "Eat Organic, Ward off Cancer"
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards! National Organic Standard Board Votes for Factory-Farmed "Organic" Chicken & Eggs, Delays Action on Nanotechnology, and Approves List of Non-Organic and Synthetics for Use in Organic
- National Organic Program Refuses to Curb Organic Fraud in the Health & Beauty Aisle
- The Good News: GMO Vaccines Aren't Allowed in Organic -- Yet
- Video of the Week: The Boston Teat Party, a Raw Milk Drink-In -- With Cow!
- May 17 - 23, 2010 is Hemp History Week
- Little Bytes
Issue #223 5/6/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "The single largest threat to production agriculture."
- Alerts of the Week:
- Healthy Raw Milk: OCA Takes a Stand in Massachusetts
- Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs
- Video of the Week: The Difference Between Cage-Free Organic & Pasture-Raised Organic Eggs
- Saturday May 8 is World Fair Trade Day
- Little Bytes
Issue #222 4/29/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: UFW on Arizona Law Targeting Latino Immigrants and Workers
- Mad Science: Climate Chaos and Geoengineering
- Supreme Court Sees No Problem with Genetic Pollution from Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- Alert of the Week: OCA Joins the Call for a Consumer and Tourist Boycott of Arizona
- Help the OCA Get 35,000 Facebook Fans!
- Survey: Do You Support the Rights of Mother Earth?
- Video of the Week: Bolivia's Answer to the UN Climate Summit
- OCA on the Radio: Ronnie Cummins on the Global Climate Crisis
- Little Bytes
Issue #221 4/22/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Cochabamba Climate Summit - “Change the System Not the Climate”
- Action Alert of the Week: Stop Factory Farm Production of "Organic" Chicken & Eggs
- More Current Alerts:
- Keep Nanotech Ingredients Out of Organic Food!
- Tell Your Senators: No Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops in Foreign
Aid! - Still Time to Save Local & Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill
- Resource of the Week: Updated Leaflet on Monsanto and GMOs
- OCA on the Radio: OCA's Campaign Against Using Toxic Sludge to Grow Food
- Video of the Week: Democracy Now! Covers the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change
- Little Bytes
Issue #220 4/15/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: USDA Soil Scientist - "We Might Be Setting Up a Huge Problem."
- Take Action:
- Keep Nanotech Ingredients Out of Organic Food!
- Tell Your Senators: No GE Crops in Foreign Aid!
- Still Time to Save Local & Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill
- Video of the Week: "Food Inc." on PBS - Have a House Party!
- Little Bytes
Issue #219 4/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Walt Whitman: "This Compost"
- Take Action:
- Rescue Local/Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill!
- Don't Let USDA Okay 4-Month Factory Farm Confinement for "Organic" Beef
- Hug a Farmer! April 17: La Via Campesina Call to Action
- Essay of the Week: "Is This Factory Farming's Tobacco Moment?" by Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins
- Video of the Week: OCA Exposes 'Organic Cheaters’
- Little Bytes
Issue #218 4/5/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote: Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times..."
- Victory: Whole Foods Takes a Stand Against Faux Organic Claim
- Victory: FDA Warns Companies to Certify Organic Claim to USDA Standards
- Victory: JASON Drops False "Pure, Natural & Organic" Claim, Kiss My Face No Longer "Obsessively Organic"
- Take Action: Tell the Organic Fakers to Drop False Claims on Cosmetics
- Ask Legendary Chef Alice Waters to Oppose Growing Food in Toxic Sludge!
- Obama Recess-Appoints Biotech Lobbyist
- Video: "Food For Thought: Understanding Labels"
- Little Bytes
Issue #217 3/25/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Paul Hawken: "The future belongs to those who understand..."
- Take Action:
- Urge USDA to Step Up Enforcement of Organic Standards
- Tell Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to Remove Himself from Supreme Court GMO Sugar Beet Case
- OCA in the News:
- Corporate Crime Reporter: OCA Exposes Intimidation Tactics of the 'Organic Mafia'
- Whole Foods Market and UNFI
- Ronnie Cummins on Planet Erstwild Radio
- Video of the Week: The Greed of Feed
- Little Bytes
Issue #216 3/18/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action:
- Ask Whole Foods and UNFI to Sign the Sustainable Food Pledge
- Stop Genetically Engineered Alfalfa!
- Digging Deeper Into San Francisco's Sludge
- Join "Sham-Poo" Actions to Stop Organic Fraud
- OCA in the News:
- Sustainable Supply Chain Coalition Asks Whole Foods to Support Domestic Fair Trade and Increase Organic
- Ronnie Cummins on the Radio: "OCA Challenges Whole Foods Market to 'Walk the Talk'"
- Green Patriot and OCA Expose 1,4 Dioxane in Household Products
- Video of the Week: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor
- Little Bytes
Issue #215 3/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Edward Bernays: "Those who manipulate the unseen..."
- Take Action:
- Protest "Sham-Poo," Tell USDA and Faux Organic Cosmetic Companies to Come Clean
- Press Whole Foods Market and United Natural Foods Inc. to Sign the Sustainable Food Pledge
- Action Updates:
- More Than 200,000 Consumers, Farmers, and Organic Businesses Call for USDA to Prohibit Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- America's Greenest Mayor: "Let Them Eat Toxic Sludge!"
- Procter & Gamble Agrees to Reformulate Body Products After OCA and Allies Expose Toxic Contaminant
Issue #214 2/25/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Erich Fromm
- Take Action:
- Ninety-Eight Organizations Oppose Senate Confirmation of Pesticide and Biotech Lobbyist Islam Siddiqui for USTR Agriculture Negotiator
- March 3 Deadline: Obama USDA Poised to Take Away Our Right to GMO-Free Food
- Support San Francisco Garden Activists Returning Toxic Sludge to City Officials Who Called It "Organic Compost"
- Action Update: Thank You From the Cornucopia Institute
- Little Bytes
Issue #213 2/18/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week: New Organic Regulations Ban Factory-Style Dairy Feedlots
- Take Action
- Obama USDA Poised to Approve Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- Tell San Francisco to Stop Giving Away or Selling Toxic Sludge Under the Guise of "Organic Compost" or Fertilizer
- Vignette of the Week: Eating Like Our Parents Left for the Weekend by Will Allen
- Video of the Week: Vandana Shiva on Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide
Issue #212 2/11/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week: USDA Drops "Big Brother" National Animal ID Program
- Take Action
- Urgent Action Needed to Save Small Fishing Families
- John McCain Files New Bill Attacking Your Access to Vitamin Supplements
- Featured Essay of the Week: Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century By Ronnie Cummins and Will Allen
- Video of the Week: The Heat Is Online: Ross Gelbspan
- Alert Update of the Week: Tell San Francisco to Stop Spreading Sewage Sludge and Calling It "Organic Fertilizer"
Issue #211 2/4/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action: Tell the "World's Greenest Mayor" to Stop Poisoning His City with Toxic Sludge!
- Horror Story of the Week
- The People Who Want You to Believe Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
- Recommended Reading: The Big Necessity
- Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Child Slavery on Valentine's Day
Issue #210 1/26/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action
- Don't Let the White House Weaken Organic Dairy Standards
- Help OCA Investigate Whole Foods' "Whole Paycheck" Pricing
- Campaign Updates
- The Worst Faux Organic Cosmetic Brands Revealed
- Teamsters Urge United Natural Foods, Inc. to Uphold Workers' Rights
- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Stepping Down As Chairman of the Board
- Featured Article: Who's Trying to Kill Organic? A Revolutionary Movement Undermined by Its "So-Called Friends," Feedlot "Organic" Dairies and Whole Foods
Issue #209 1/21/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action
- Stop Monsanto's Genetically Modified Alfalfa!
- Senator Puts a Hold on Obama's Pro-Pesticide Nominee Siddiqui
- Action Updates
- Nearly 9,000 OCA Members Tell DOJ to Break Monsanto's Monopoly
- Pro-Monsanto Rajiv Shah Confirmed as USAID Director
- Monsanto in the News
- Organic Empowerment 2010: Taking Action Locally
- Strategic Local Campaign of the Week: #5 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost
Issue #208 1/15/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Special Alert: Haiti
- Toxins in Your "Organic" Health & Beauty Products
- Campaign of the Week: #4 - Organic, Fair Trade & Union Made Procurement
- Preview: Next Week's Special Monsanto Issue
Issue #207 1/7/10 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Ten Strategic Local Campaigns
- 1. Locally Grown Organic Food
- 2. Local Currencies and Community Banks
- 3. Health Care Access, Including Natural and Integrative Medicine
Issue #206 12/30/09 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Why We Should All Eat More Organic Food
- How to Identify Real Organic Food
- Organic Food On a Budget
Issue #205 12/23/09 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Beyond the Dark Days: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
- The High Cost of So-Called Cheap Food
- Will We Survive the Climate Crisis?
- The Sun Returns! The Future is Organic!
- Making the Organic Transition: Taking on the Fertilizer, Garbage and Sludge Industries
Issue #204 12/17/09 - HTML - PDF Version
Special Issue! Millions Against Monsanto: Save the Planet
- Actions of the Week: Stop Monsanto!
- Action Update: Monsanto Wins the Angry Mermaid Award
- Health News of the Week: Dangers of Monsanto GMO Corn
- Spoof Monsanto Site: ILoveMeatTube.com
- Little Bytes: More News of the Week
Issue #203 12/10/09 - HTML - PDF Version
Special Issue: The Copenhagen Climate Talks
- Video/Action of the Week: Scrap Cap & Trade, Force EPA to Crack Down on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Pollution!
- Action Updates: Art for the Climate, the World Wants a Real Deal
- Corporate Climate Criminal: Monsanto Nominated for Angry Mermaid Award
- Climate Justice Heroes: La Via Campesina in Copenhagen
- Zero Waste for Zero Warming: More Compost, Less GHGs from Landfills
Issue #202 12/3/09 - HTML - PDF Version
2009 Highlights & Victories
- January: The Inauguration of Hope & Change
- February: Yoplait & Dannon Go Growth Hormone-Free
- March: Stop NAIS! Over 10,000 OCA Activists Take Action
- April: Organic Garden at the White House
- May: USDA Gives Farmers $50 Million to Go Organic
- June: Via Organica Launched in Mexico
- July: Organic Concerns Shape Food Safety Debate
- August: Whole Foods Promises to Sell More Organics in 2010
- Survey of the Week: Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) Market Claims Their Organic Foods Are Reasonably Priced: Is This True?
- September: USDA Disowns "Organic-Biotech" Report
- October: Court Declares GMO Sugar Beet Approval Illegal
- November: NOSB Tells USDA to Stop Organic Cosmetics Fraud
- December: Stop Siddiqui! 77,000 People Take Action
- 2010: Vote With Your Dollars on OCA's 2010 Priorities