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Protecting the organic marketU.S. sales of certified organic food and products reached $50 billion in 2017, amounting to more than 5 percent of all grocery store sales, including approximately 10 percent of all produce sales.Read more |
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Challenging the Biotech IndustryThe Millions Against Monsanto Campaign was started by OCA in the mid 1990s to fight back against Monsanto and the other biotech bullies responsible for poisoning the world's food and environment.Read more |
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The Myth of Natural FoodsConsumers rely on labels, advertising and marketing information to help them choose products they believe to be safe, healthful and produced using practices that are aligned with their values. Many food companies exploit this fact. They knowingly mislead consumers by claiming their products are “natural” when in fact those products contain pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), antibiotics, growth hormones and artificial ingredients.The most prevalent examples of false labeling and advertising are use of terms like “Natural,” “All Natural” and “100% Natural.” Read more |
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It's time for Ben and Jerry's to go organicCompanies like Ben & Jerry’s, Starbucks and Kirtland Organic (produced by Aurora for Walmart and Costco) misrepresent their brands as being healthy, sustainable and socially responsible.
In fact, these companies support a filthy dairy industry that relies on millions of acres of GMO animal feed, unleashes tons of dangerous pesticides into soils and waterways, is cruel to animals, and produces unhealthy dairy products.
It’s time for these brands to go organic.Read more |
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Boycott Factory Farm Foods!Industrial agriculture, with its factory farms, GMO monculture crops and toxic chemicals, is one of the leading causes of global warming. You can help cool the planet by choosing organic foods, grown using sustainable, regenerative farming practices. Read more |
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Give Bees a Chance: Go Organic!Protect bees and other pollinators by choosing organic food, grown without toxic insecticides, and by planting bee-friendly gardens.Read more |
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Care What You Wear!Working with farmers, consumers, and companies to promote organics and Fair Trade in the clothing sector.Read more |
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Surviving the Approaching StormTo survive and thrive in turbulent times we will need to organize ourselves at the grassroots level to carry out a series of regenerative organic transitions, not only in terms of food and farming, but also in transportation, housing, health, education and politicsRead more |
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News on Mad Cow and Chronic Wasting DiseaseOCA demands that the US Government adopt and enforce mandatory testing for all cattle brought to slaughter and a ban on feeding blood, manure, and slaughterhouse waste to animals.Read more |
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Organic Integrity in the Health and Beauty Care AisleThe Organic Consumers Association's Coming Clean Campaign has been working to clean up the "organic" cosmetics industry since 2004.Read more |
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OCA's Campaign to Mobilize Socially Responsible Consumers into a Powerful Force for ChangeOCA's Breaking the Chains Campaign is focusing consumers' attention on how each purchasing decision can lead to a safer, greener, and more equitable society.Read more |
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Which Side is the Obama Administration On?The question of which agriculture model will dominate food production is a question we only have one opportunity to answer. So, which side is the Obama Administration on?Read more |
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Healthy Raw MilkRecent studies have declared raw milk to be an extremely low risk food, but farmers producing these healthy foods continue to be targeted under outdated assumptions about public health.Read more |
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Toxic sludge is poisonSewage sludge is a form of hazardous waste and needs to be contained and isolated, not spread on our gardens and farmland!Read more |
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A Resource Center for news and activities that seek to build a powerful coalition to bring about cooperation and synergy between the peace movement, the climate crisis movement, and the organic community.Read more |
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A campaign to reduce children's exposure to pesticides, toxins, and junk foodsLet's convert school lunches to healthier menus and transition to organic ingredients and teach kids about food choices and sustainable agriculture.Read more |
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We must act now, before it's too late.The monarch butterfly is on the brink of extinction. There's ample science—including a new study by the Center for Food Safety—that links the devastation of the monarch population to Monsanto's Roundup.
Why? Roundup kills the milkweed plant, which is essential to the monarch's survival. Read more |
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Regenerate Our Food, Health, Climate and PoliticsOur common planet, and our common governing system, are in crisis. We must unite to resist the forces that are degenerating our food, health, climate, social and political systems—but we must also focus on solutions, on how to regenerate those systems.Read more |
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