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Even if you prefer organic veggie burgers or grass-fed beef, even if you’d never touch the genetically engineered Impossible Burger, it’s important for all of us to demand safety testing and regulation of GMOs.
The future of food—and public health—is at stake.
The GMO Impossible Burger is so packed with poisons, that if eating it makes you sick, you’ll never be able to figure out which ingredient to blame.
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned of a looming food crisis.
The impact of climate change on land is “already severe,” the panel reported. Unless we act fast, climate change will eventually lead to global food shortages and higher food prices.
What can you do?
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass the Climate Stewardship Act!
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) still hasn’t agreed to the Sunrise Movement’s demand for a #climatedebate, but that hasn’t stopped candidates from focusing on the issue.
Supporters of Organic Consumers Association’s “Cook Organic, Not the Planet” campaign, along with supporters of Regeneration International, a nonprofit OCA helped launch in 2015, will be happy to hear that this election cycle, candidates are finally talking about climate change. More important, most of the candidates recognize that it will be very difficult to solve the climate problem by focusing on fossil fuels and emissions reduction alone. They realize that we also have to draw down and sequester the excess carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere—and they know that the most efficient, most practical and most “shovel-ready” way to do that is to rapidly scale up regenerative organic farming and ranching practices that increase soil carbon.
We now have until September 3 to let the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) know why glyphosate, he active ingredient in Monsanto (now Bayer)’s Roundup herbicide should be banned.
Organic Consumers Association and our allies have delivered 149,559 signatures to the EPA. The signatures were collected on petitions like this one (please sign if you haven’t yet).
But so far, the EPA has accepted only 2,747 comments, because the agency screens out submissions that are “duplicate/near duplicate examples of a mass-mail campaign.”
That’s why we need you to tell the EPA, in your own words, why glyphosate should be banned. If you want to include scientific evidence in support of your lived experience, check out this fact sheet by U.S. Right to Know.
Would you like to see a food system where family farmers, food system workers, local communities and consumers have more power?
Then we need to stop Big Ag corporations from getting even bigger.
The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2019, introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep.Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), would protect family farmers who are at the mercy of the food and agriculture giants who have the power to raise their costs and cut their pay.
I’m here at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with our allies to deliver the petition signatures we’ve collected so far demanding that the EPA end the use of glyphosate-based herbicides. (Live video here.)
Even if you’re not here with us, you can help!
First, please submit your comments to the EPA before midnight on Friday, July 5. Demand that the EPA heed the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cance determination that glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen.”
Next, sign this petition asking Congress to ban Monsanto-Bayer’s cancer-causing Roundup weedkiller.
There are members of Congress who are ready to join us in pressuring the EPA to conduct an unbiased, scientific review of the evidence that Roundup causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
We’ve even heard from some of them that they would consider introducing a bill to ban glyphosate--if they heard from enough of their constituents!
We’re still trying to raise the money we need to storm the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., and stand with Roundup-exposed cancer victims in St. Louis, Missouri.
But we want to make sure you know that there’s one thing you can do today to help get Roundup banned.
Before midnight July 5, please submit your comment directly to the EPA on the agency’s Glyphosate Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision.
Then please also sign our petition, so we can deliver signatures in person.
By 2050, 10 million people could die from drug-resistant diseases every year—that’s more than the number of people who die from cancer each year.
By just 2030, antimicrobial-resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty, and trigger a global economic crisis on a scale comparable to the one last seen in 2008-2009.
What’s the biggest driver of this global public health crisis? The reckless use of antibiotics on factory farms.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Healthy farm animals shouldn’t get antibiotics that sick people need!
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is the first federal legislator and presidential candidate to call for a ban on Roundup weedkiller.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is too busy protecting Monsanto to protect you. So let’s call on all of Gabbard’s colleagues to join her in demanding Congress ban Roundup!
TAKE ACTION: Tell your Senators and Members of Congress to ban Monsanto’s Roundup!
You know that switching to organic and pasture-based agriculture is what we need to do to feed the world and cool the planet—because healthy soil can both provide abundant food, and also draw down and sequester carbon.
But do your members of Congress know this?
And if they do, are they doing anything to level the playing field for farmers who grow nutrient-rich food in ways that protect, not harm, the environment? So that those farmers stand a chance of making a decent living in a market dominated by industrial food producers?
Take Action: Invite your Congresspersons to the 'Farm and Food Policy for a Changing World' Briefing
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