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HYDROPONICS

Organic Integrity Under Attack: Soil-less Organics?

A California district court judge has ruled that hydroponic fruits, vegetables, and crops, grown in containers rather than soil, can continue to be labeled and marketed as “USDA Organic,” despite widespread complaints from organic consumers and farmers.

The Center for Food Safety, who filed a lawsuit along with a number of organic farms and organizations to stop hydroponic foods from being labeled as “USDA Organic,” commented on this highly unpopular court decision:

“Under the Court’s ruling, hydroponic producers can sell their crops as organic without building soil fertility, yet organic farmers growing food in soil have to meet various soil-building requirements to be certified organic,” said Sylvia Wu, senior attorney with Center for Food Safety and counsel for plaintiffs. “This double standard violates the very purpose of the organic label and is contrary to the federal organic act. We are analyzing all our legal options and will continue to work hard to defend the meaning of the organic label.”

OCA and our allies urge consumers and farmers to continue to pressure the Biden Administration and the USDA to stop the corporate agribusiness “capture” of National Organic Program standards, which currently allow factory-farmed poultry, eggs, and dairy, as well as soil-less hydroponics, to display the “USDA Organic” label, unfairly penalizing the overwhelming majority of organic farmers and brands who uphold organic integrity.

COVID-19

USA Today on the Wuhan Lab Leak

Award-winning USA Today journalist Alison Young has been exposing the dangers of creating virulent and highly transmissible viruses and bacteria in unregulated and accident-prone labs across the US, China, and other nations for over a decade, calling attention to over 100 lab accidents every year in the US alone between 2014-2019.

Young writes:

“As members of a World Health Organization expert team have made international headlines recently dismissing as “extremely unlikely” the possibility that a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, could have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, I can’t stop thinking of the hundreds of lab accidents that are secretly occurring just in the United States.

“As an investigative reporter, I have spent more than a decade revealing shocking safety breaches that officials at laboratories in our own country don’t want the public to know about...

“The notion that more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide – so far – could be the result of a lab accident has been met with skepticism and derision by many journalists and scientists who often portray it as a crackpot conspiracy theory fueled by former President Donald Trump’s China-bashing rhetoric. Without question, the lab-leak theory has been politically and racially weaponized in ugly ways. Nonetheless, that rhetoric needs to be separated from legitimate questions about lab safety that are deserving of investigation.

“Science, like journalism, is supposed to be about facts and about getting to the truth. But those who dare seek answers to reasonable questions about any lab accidents in Wuhan are accused of peddling conspiracies.”

VANDANA SHIVA

Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates' Empires

In this powerful interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Vandana Shiva discusses Bill Gates’ efforts to seize control over, and profit from, every field that has to do with sustaining life. Gates’ attempts at technocratic control over farming, food, and health are a threat to all of humanity.

Instead, as Vandana Shiva describes, we need regenerative agriculture, real food, and food sovereignty to truly empower health and regeneration.

Watch: “Dr. Vandana Shiva Discusses Bill Gates and His Empires”

INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

Stopping Dangerous GOF Experiments: Interview with Dr. Richard Ebright

The recent WHO/Chinese government “investigation” of the origins of COVID-19 is increasingly being exposed as a cover-up and a fraud.

Dr. Richard Ebright of Rutgers University, a world-recognized expert on bioweapons and laboratory safety, is one of the twenty-six world scientists who signed the Open Letter: “Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19” released March 4 by the Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. This Open Letter has fueled the debate over the pandemic’s origin in the wake of the bogus WHO-convened “investigation of the origins” mission to Wuhan.

Criticizing the official whitewash by the WHO and the Chinese government, Dr. Ebright points out:

“A credible investigation would have had Terms of Reference that: 1) Acknowledged the possibility of laboratory origin, 2) Ensured access of investigators to records, samples, personnel, and facilities at the Wuhan laboratories that handle bat SARS-related coronaviruses, 3) Enabled collection of evidence, not mere meet-and-greet photo-ops, 4) Authorized an investigation of months, not mere days. And 5) A credible investigation also would have had conflict-of-interest-free investigators, not persons who were subjects of the research and/or closely associated with subjects of the investigation.”

REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Regenerative Grazing: Humane, Healthy, & Climate-Friendly

Approximately 68% of the world’s agricultural lands (eight billion acres as compared to four billion acres of croplands) are used for grazing. The majority of these landscapes are unsuitable for raising food crops.

These rangelands and pasturelands are home to over a billion people who are dependent on the livestock that graze on these lands for their living. These landscapes are often some of the most degraded lands on the planet due to deforestation, erosion, drought, and inappropriate grazing practices.

The good news is that there are a range of grazing systems that can regenerate degraded ecosystems, sequester carbon, increase ground cover, biodiversity, soil organic matter, water holding capacity, and raise the income of several hundred million small farmers and herders.

Find out more: Regenerative Grazing - Increased Production, Biodiversity Resilience, Profits and a Climate Change Solution

COVID-19

Former CDC Head Says Pandemic Was Caused by a Lab Leak

In related news, the former Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Robert Redfield, told CNN March 26 that he believes the coronavirus "escaped" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it was spreading as early as September or October of 2019.

Please sign and circulate our Petition to ban “Gain of Function” Lab Engineering of Dangerous Viruses and Bacteria

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Crash Course on COVID-19 Vaccines

OCA’s ally, Millions Against Medical Mandates, has produced a short (three and a half minute), humorous, but highly educational video.

Please watch and share:

A Crash Course On The COVID Vaccines

COVID-19

COVID-19 Cover-up Collapsing

The supposed World Health Organization-Chinese government “investigation” into the origins of COVID-19 is becoming widely exposed in the global media as a sham, orchestrated by Chinese Communist officials, WHO bureaucrats (funded by the US, China, and Bill Gates), complicit scientists who carry out dangerous lab engineering of viruses, and US funders of the Wuhan Lab disaster including Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Peter Daszak from the Eco-Health Alliance.

CLIMATE CHANGE

A Call to Address Climate Change

As the growing climate crisis impacts food producers across the country, the call for a Just Transition toward climate resilience is echoing throughout Congress, and USDA Secretary Vilsack is advocating market-based strategies and capital-intensive technologies to reduce emissions.

Countering Vilsack's response, a diverse group of food, farm, and environmental organizations is hosting a webinar intended to highlight the problems with market-based strategies, and provide local food producers’ perspectives on addressing the climate crisis through policy action.

Presented by the National Family Farm Coalition, Friends of the Earth US, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Organic Consumers Association, the April 8th virtual webinar will feature the following speakers:

-Elizabeth Henderson, Northeast Organic Farmers Association-New York
-Rosanna Marie Neil, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, Washington, D.C.
-Mardy Townsend, Ashtabula-Lake Geauga Farmers Union, Ohio
-Shannon Anderson, Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming
-Ben Lilliston, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
-Jason Davidson, Friends of the Earth US
-Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association, moderating
-Niaz Dorry, National Family Farm Coalition/Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, Massachusetts, closing remarks

Register for the April 8th Webinar here

THE TRUTH ABOUT COVID-19

Ronnie Cummins and Dr. Mercola’s New Book on COVID-19 Ranked as a Bestseller by Amazon

Pre-orders of Ronnie Cummins’ new book, The Truth About COVID-19, co-authored with natural health leader Dr. Joe Mercola, are going strong, with Amazon earlier this week ranking it #6 on their current bestseller list.

Learn more about the book and pre-order your copy!

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LITTLE BYTES

Essential Reading for the Week

Bayer Admit Defeat in Groundbreaking Roundup Cancer Case as Ongoing Liability Deal Challenged

Lockdowns: The Biggest Public Health Mistake Ever Made?

Big Tech ‘Making Billions’ Off Surveillance Advertising

Exposing Bill Gates' Latest Bought and Paid for Medical Research

The Biggest Animal Welfare Success of the Past 6 Years, in One Chart

Explosive Emails From Wuhan’s ‘Batwoman’ Shows How Chinese Scientists Fought To Shift Blame for COVID Pandemic

60 Minutes Report: What Happened in Wuhan? Why Questions Still Linger on the Origin of the Coronavirus

The WHO COVID Report is Fatally Flawed, and a Real Investigation Has Yet to Take Place