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Want to get chlorpyrifos—DowDuPont’s brain-damaging pesticide—out of New York, for good?
Tell Governor Cuomo to sign the bill!
TAKE ACTION TODAY: Urge Governor Cuomo to sign S. 5343, which would make New York the second state to ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos!
Consumer alert: Before you pay $200 an ounce for what you think is a premium, phytocannabinoid-rich hemp extract, be aware that Amazon.com doesn’t actually sell CBD.
Ever search for “CBD” on Amazon.com? If you’ve bought any of the products that come up, including the site’s “Best Seller,” it’s likely you’ve been fleeced.
According to Amazon.com’s drug and paraphernalia policy, “Items containing CBD/cannabinoid or full spectrum hemp oil, including topical products, are prohibited from listing or sale on Amazon.”
And yet, when you search “CBD” on Amazon.com, this policy doesn’t come up—but dozens of products do.
When you see a “Product of U.S.A.” label on a package of meat you should be able to assume that the meat you’re looking at came from an animal raised and processed here in the U.S.
But chances are, the meat or some portion of it was actually imported from another country.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to stop the labeling fraud! Support the U.S. Beef Integrity Act!
OCA is asking for signatures to a petition in favor of extending a temporary glyphosate ban at the University of California.
TAKE ACTION: Ask University of California President Janet Napolitano to make all UC campuses glyphosate-free and all-organic by 2025! Then, join the national Herbicide-Free Campus campaign.
Whenever students join a movement, they provide a huge boost to that movement’s mission. In fact, the level of student involvement is often an indicator of how successful a movement will be.
In the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee energized the peace and civil rights movements.
Today, campus organizers are the driving force behind the Sunrise Movement’s success in getting politicians to address climate change.
That’s why we’re so excited to share with you a success story about the burgeoning movement to kick Monsanto off campus and create herbicide-free and organic universities.
When you buy certified organic processed meats (bacon, ham, salami, hot dogs, etc.) with the words “uncured” and “no nitrates” on the package, you assume you’re avoiding cancer-causing substances, right?
Not if the meat you buy also contains celery powder.
#StrikeWithUs has a plan to solve the climate crisis and it includes regenerative agriculture!
If you agree with the demands below, join the climate strike on September 20. You can find an action near you at StrikeWithUs.org.
If you’re in New York City, scroll down to find out more about the Climate Week event we’re hosting at the NY Botanical Gardens with Regeneration International on September 24.
On September 20, three days before the United Nations’ Climate Summit in New York City, young people and adults will strike to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis.
Before you enjoy the upcoming three-day weekend, please write a note to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) telling the agency why it should ban this very dangerous herbicide, Monsanto (now Bayer)’s glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller.
Wow! Over the last two months, 106,431 people have taken the time to educate themselves about glyphosate-based herbicides and share what they’ve learned, posting public comments on the Regulations.gov website.
We know it’s going to take another election to really do something about this. But what better way to motivate our next president and her (or his) EPA Administrator than by showing them the hundreds of thousands of public comments demanding a ban on this carcinogenic weedkiller.
TAKE ACTION BY TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3: Tell the EPA why glyphosate should be banned!
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.
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