Organic Consumers Association News Headlines

Legislative Bills Proposed in Six States would Grant Nutrition Monopoly to ADA

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:12:00 CST

]]>Have you ever wondered why much of the food served to patients in hospitals is highly processed and unhealthy? Or why school lunches at public schools are often loaded with refined flours, sugars, and other toxic ingredients and additives?]]> Click here to read this article

While Government Discredits Raw Milk, it Keeps Names of Salmonella Outbreak Restaurants Secret to Protect Corporate Profits

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:34:00 CST

]]> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is getting increasingly bold these days with openly admitting that it works directly for big industry interests rather than public health interests.]]> Click here to read this article

Genetically Modified Crops had Bumper Year in 2011

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:55:00 CST

]]>U.S. farmers and those in developing countries helped drive a surge in new plantings of genetically modified crops around the globe in 2011, even in the face of resistance from Europe and from those who think such crops ought to carry special labels.]]> Click here to read this article

Sierra Club Faces Gas-Cash Fallout

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:51:46 CST

]]>Is $26 million worth the reputation of a venerable, 1.4 million member environmental group? The Sierra Club may be about to find out.]]> Click here to read this article

Vermont Introduces Monumental GMO Labeling Legislation

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:47:24 CST

]]>Vermont has taken the initiative against Monsanto and other biotechnology corporations in launching new legislation that would require the labeling of products containing genetically modified ingredients.]]> Click here to read this article

Ask Congress to Support the Just Label It FDA Petition

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:45:38 CST

]]> Watch this Just Label It video, then take action by sending a letter to Congress. Ask your senators and representative to join Sen. Boxer and Rep. DeFazio in writing a letter to the Food & Drug Administration in support of the legal petition for labels on genetically engineered food.]]> Click here to read this article

GMO Labeling Advocate Gets Face Time with Monsanto CEO and Executive Team

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:02 CST

]]>On January 24, Monsanto shareholders gathering for their annual meeting were greeted by 50 protesters calling for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to be labeled in the marketplace. While “Occupy-Monsanto” events are becoming more common worldwide, one activist working on behalf of socially responsible shareholders took the anti-GMO message deep inside the inner circle of Monsanto’s highly paid executives and recorded the encounter. ]]> Click here to read this article

Ask Whole Foods to Respect Consumers' Right to Know About GMOs

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:08 CST

]]>Whole Foods Market admits in an internal company memo that it sells Monsanto's genetically modified foods, while at the same time they claim to support mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labels. So, why don't they set a Truth-in-Labeling policy for their own stores and voluntarily label conventional and "natural" foods containing GMOs or coming from Factory Farms (Confined Animal Feeding Operations or CAFOs) where animals are fed genetically modified feed?]]> Click here to read this article

Whole Fraud: Exposing the Myth of So-Called Natural Foods

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:08:42 CST

]]>On Jan. 31, organic and natural foods giant Whole Foods Market (WFM) once again attacked the Organic Consumers Association, the nation's leading watchdog on organic standards, as being too "hard-line" for insisting that retailers like WFM stop selling, or at least start labeling, billions of dollars worth of so-called "natural" foods in their stores - foods that are laced with unlabeled, hazardous genetically engineered (GE) ingredients.]]> Click here to read this article

Hawaii Residents Lobby for Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:39:35 CST

]]>Several Molokai residents and University of Hawaii students assembled a stone platform with a wooden statue known as a "ki`i" on the grounds of the state Capitol today to bring attention to legislative bills that would require the labeling of genetically modified food in Hawaii stores.]]> Click here to read this article

Molokai Group Fights for GMO Labeling Legislation

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:38:45 CST

]]>A small group of advocates from Molokai flew over to Oahu today to clean, sand and oil a Haloa Ki'i ]]> Click here to read this article

Monsanto Responds as Maui Occupy Group Launches Demonstration

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:37:42 CST

]]> A week of Occupy Wall Street Maui events kick off today with the establishment of an encampment near the Monsanto offices in Kihei.]]> Click here to read this article

USDA Grants Help the Local Food Movement Grow

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:31:55 CST

]]>In case you think pickling is just another excuse to put Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in goofy wigs, think again. Along with products like jam, flour, and beef jerky, pickles count as "value-added" foods, and they're at the core of what it will take for the local food movement to mature beyond an easily parodied trend. ]]> Click here to read this article

Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:00 CST

]]> Monsanto Company is the dominant player in commercial genetically engineered (GE) crops, the biggest seed company in the world, and-to hear them tell it-a leader and innovator in sustainable agriculture.]]> Click here to read this article

What's That Coating on Your Vegetables?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:27:43 CST

]]> Fruits and vegetables-apparently even organically-grown varieties-may have cow-, pig-, and chicken collagen coatings on them rather than wax, as well as a number of other unsavory ingredients. ]]> Click here to read this article

Sugar Low: Do Sweeteners Need to be Regulated?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:25:36 CST

]]>A recent op-ed published in the journal Nature, by several scientists who are experts in their field, has the pundits all aflutter. But the subject is somewhat surprising: Sweeteners.]]> Click here to read this article

A Suit Airs Debate on Organic vs. Modified Crops

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:16:49 CST

]]>Silent in flannel shirts and ponytails, farmers from Saskatchewan and South Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts lined the walls of a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, as their lawyers told a judge that they were no longer able to keep genetically modified crops from their fields.]]> Click here to read this article

Scout's Honor: The Push for Sustainable Cookies isn't Over Yet

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:31:13 CST

]]>It's that time of year again - time to weigh your love for Girl Scout cookies against your love for the rainforests. That's right: As we've reported in the past, your Samoas are deforesting Sumatra and your Tagalongs are killing orangutans.]]> Click here to read this article

OSGATA Et Al. V. Monsanto: Will Farmers Receive Justice?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:55:18 CST

]]>It was standing room only as family farmers from around North America filled Federal Court Judge Naomi Buchwald's courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday, January 31. The topic was the landmark organic community lawsuit OSGATA et al v. Monsanto and the Oral Argument Monsanto's pre-trial motion to dismiss which it filed last July. ]]> Click here to read this article

Eyeing Greener Acres, New Farmers Reap Growing U.S. Aid

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:38:00 CST

]]>HALLSVILLE, Mo. - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country.]]> Click here to read this article