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Unless we stop abusing the world’s soil, we’ve got 60 years until we run out of farmable land.
“The Need To GROW", an award-winning new film narrated by Rosario Dawson, profiles three very different solutionary heroes and their Read More
What will we eat in the future? What was once an rhetorical musing has now become the critical question of our time as scientists grapple with tricky questions about life—and larders—in a climate-changing world.
Agriculture is both a key contributor to climate change and one of the sectors most vulnerable to Read More
Organic farming is a win-win for people, animals and the planet. But it’s so much more than a set of practices used to grow food.
Organic agriculture takes a holistic approach that embraces Mother Read More
The EPA—especially under Trump, but also under the next administration, too—will never ban Roundup, or any of the scores of toxic chemicals threatening our lives, without massive grassroots pressure. OCA and our allies, after 20 years of steady campaigning, have created a growing awareness and resistance against the Poison Cartel. We need to put the Poison Cartel out of business.
But we can’t do it Read More
Why is it especially urgent that we ramp up the campaign against Roundup weedkiller right now?
Because the U.S. EPA is facing a deadline to decide whether to renew—or ban—glyphosate.
There are signs that the political will to keep allowing this cancer-causing chemical to Read More
As if we needed more evidence of the dangers posed by Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller, this just in from GM Watch:
A newly published study adds to the ever-growing pile of evidence in support of the cancer-causing potential of the weedkiller active ingredient glyphosate. Glyphosate herbicides like Roundup are used on over 85% of genetically modified crops.Read More
This week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue threw small and mid-sized independent family farmers under the bus. Perdue and his U.S. Department of Agriculture want to support Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Farms, not Farmers like Phillip and Dorathy Barker who farmed for 40 years in North Carolina.Read More
Think consumers don’t have much power? Think again.
It may have taken a few years, but consumers can take the lion’s share of credit for bringing down Big Food’s $2-billion lobbying group.
Back in the day before Congress killed consumers’ right to know about GMOs, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) spent millions of dollars in California to defeat a citizen ballot initiative in 2012 that would have required labels on GMO foods.
That made the Read More
From the “Department of Here We Go Again,” the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) needs our help—again—to remind the Trump administration that all forms of genetic engineering must be excluded from organic production.
We have only until midnight EST October 3 to flood the NOSB with comments.
Last week, Organic Consumers Association (OCA), joined Regeneration International (an organization we helped co-found and continue to support) and the Read More
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