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Today, as Congress works on a 4th COVID-19 stimulus bill, we ask you to once again contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives.
COVID-19 has exposed how fragile our food system is, and how urgently we need policies that can advance a regenerative and resilient food system.
Trump wants a $500 billion slush fund to bail out his favorite corporations—including his own—that would be doled out in secret.
We can’t let Trump get away with stealing from the poor and giving to the rich—especially in this time of need! Our health, our welfare, our communities, our economy and our democracy are worth fighting for! Bernie Sanders has the best plan to address the coronavirus crisis and prepare us for whatever happens next.
Read Bernie’s plan and watch his coronavirus roundtable with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
SIGN THE PETITION: Bernie has the best COVID-19 plan. Tell Congress to pass it!
CALL CONGRESS AT (202) 224-3121: Tell your U.S. Senators and Representative to work for a Bernie-style plan that follows the 5 Principles for Just COVID-19 Relief and Stimulus.
With one in nine Americans already struggling to put food on the table, food insecurity and lack of access to healthy food are problems in the best of times.
Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching an already inadequate social safety net to the breaking point.
Droughts, fires, floods . . . climate instability is forcing U.S. farmers and ranchers to face increasingly frequent and intensifying natural disasters that threaten their land and their livelihoods—and increase food insecurity for everyone.
A growing number of farmers and ranchers understand that the more organic and regenerative farming and grazing practices they deploy, the more climate-resilient their operations become.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) knows it, too. But instead of increasing funding for programs to help farmers adapt to climate change, the Trump administration is proposing cuts to those programs.
TAKE ACTION: Ask your members of Congress to help organic farmers by supporting the Agriculture Resilience Act!
Pesticides? Genetically modified organisms? Drugs given to animals in factory farms?
You know that eating organic is the best way to avoid food produced with these toxins and GMOs.
But there’s another evil lurking in our food system. It’s so pervasive that you’re more likely to be exposed to it through the water you drink or the air you breathe, than via your food.
TAKE ACTION: Tell your state lawmakers: We need a plan to ban synthetic nitrogen fertilizers!
We’ve investigated each of the 2020 Presidential candidates to learn where they stand on GMOs by looking into who is funding their campaigns, what their records are as elected officials and what the candidates have said in their platforms and public statements.
We know where several of the Presidential candidates stand on GMOs because they were in the House or Senate in 2016. That was the year Congress removed labels from genetically engineered foods by passing a federal bill that took away states’ rights to label GMOs and instituted a federal “bioengineered disclosure” standard that has yet to result in any GMOs being labeled.
According to a recent poll, at least half of U.S. consumers oppose industrial factory farming.
Now some federal legislators (and some presidential candidates) are catching up with voter sentiment. And some are stepping up with proposals to either severely restrict, or outright ban what Big Ag refers to as CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations).
The latest good news? A bill, introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), that could, among other things, lead to the end of industrial factory farms.
TAKE ACTION to ban factory farms! Tell Congress to pass the Farm System Reform Act of 2019.
This week, Representatives Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduced the Interstate Milk Freedom Act (H.R. 5410), a bill that prohibits federal interference with the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.
It’s legal to drink raw milk in 50 states. But only 28 states allow raw milk to be sold legally.
Congress has never passed a ban on raw milk. Yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has used its regulatory authority to raid farms and prosecute farmers for distributing raw milk.
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.
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