Organic Consumers Association

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

As if you aren’t concerned enough about the rampant use of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in your food—wait ‘til you hear the latest news.

We’re on the verge of announcing alarming facts about what’s in one of the most common foods consumed in the U.S.

It’s news that will serve as a wake-up call to consumers—and we hope, a warning to the food industry: Consumers will not tolerate lies and deception when it comes to what’s in our food.

Today we launch our summer online fundraising campaign. Your donation, which will be matched by both Mercola.com and Dr. Bronner’s, will help fund our ongoing work to expose the health and environmental hazards of industrial food. Please help us reach our quarterly goal of $250,000 by midnight June 30. Donate online, by mail or by phone—details here.

When the colours turn grey and the lights all fade To black again We’re in over our heads But somehow we make it back again – lyrics from “Beautiful Mess” 

Monsanto is facing down scores of lawsuits by people, or their families, who were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after being exposed to Roundup. Those lawsuits have led to revelations about possible collusion between Monsanto employees and former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to bury evidence of Roundup’s carcinogenicity.

Meanwhile the EPA, perhaps fearing consumer backlash, has yet to rule on whether to renew the license for glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup), even though we’re now nearly two years past the deadline.

Food companies are being sued, too, when product testing reveals that brands labeled “100% Natural” contain glyphosate residues. And the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it will resume testing of consumer foods for glyphosate.

Farmers are growing fewer GMO crops. Other countries are banning GMOs and glyphosate.

It’s no wonder Monsanto can’t wait to hand over the keys to Bayer. Things are getting messy. But for consumers and environmentalists, it’s a beautiful mess.

In 2016, when polls predicted he would lose the Iowa primary, Trump insulted Iowa voters when he tweeted: “Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain?” But don’t be confused by Trump’s tweets.

The Trump Administration has just announced a new GMO deregulation scheme, and it’s the most audacious effort to force dangerous, experimental “foods” onto the market since genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were first introduced in the 1990s.

Under Trump’s new GMO deregulation plan, there would still be no safety testing or meaningful labeling of GMOs. There would still be nothing to protect organic and non-GMO crops from contamination—which isn’t all that different than what we got from Obama and every president going back to George H.W. Bush.

Fact is, every single GMO that’s ever been submitted to U.S. regulators has been approved! From the first GMO, Monsanto’s genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH that makes cows over-produce milk, to the latest gene-edited apples, potatoes and mushrooms, Americans eat a lot of GMOs that are banned in many other countries.

TAKE ACTION BY MIDNIGHT JUNE 19: Don’t let Trump deregulate GMOs!