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    OCA on What Congress Should Be Doing with the Farm Bill: Agriculture and the Climate Crisis

    News
    January 1, 2014
    Beyond the Farm Bill by Alexis Baden-Mayer

    Our current food and farming systems rely on chemical-intensive, soil-destructive genetically engineered crops, factory farms that produce huge cesspools of waste, the slashing of rainforests to grow unsustainable crops, and a fossil fuel-guzzling, long-distance transportation system. Given that scenario, you'd think the Farm Bill debate would be all about climate change and vice versa. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

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    Organic Consumers Association Joins Coalition of 80+ Groups against King Amendment

    Press Release
    Organic Consumers Association

    FINLAND, Minn. - (Sept. 24, 2013) ”“ The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) http://organicconsumers.org/ has joined a broad coalition of more than 80 groups that have jointly signed a letter http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28365...

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    Tell the USDA: We Have the Right to Know What’s in the Dangerous Poultry ‘Modernization’ Act!

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    OCA Calls on USDA to Reveal Secret Changes to Poultry ‘Modernization’ Act and to Allow Public Comment

    Press Release
    July 16, 2014
    Organic Consumers Association
    The Organic Consumers Association called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release the details of its secret changes to the Poultry Modernization Act and to open a new public comment period on the changes. Read more

    The New Farm Bill: Yet Again, Not Ready for Climate Change

    News
    January 31, 2014
    Mother Jones by Tom Philpott
    Imagine you're a policy maker in a large country in an era of increasing climate instability-more floods and droughts, driven by steadily increasing average temperatures. And say the policy you make largely dictated the way your country's farmers... Read more

    Rep. Pingree Opposes Farm Bill

    News
    January 29, 2014
    by Willy Ritch
    Congresswoman Chellie Pingree voted against the Farm Bill today, saying the bill cuts food stamps for the neediest families, doesn't do enough to create real reform to crop subsidy programs and creates loopholes that guarantee income for big agri... Read more

    What's in the 2014 Farm Bill?

    News
    January 30, 2014
    Huffington Post by Elizabeth Kucinich
    The purpose of the Farm Bill is to balance the immediate needs of feeding the country with the long term goal of ensuring a sustained food supply. Read more

    NSAC Statement on Farm Bill Final Passage

    News
    January 28, 2014
    National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition by Ferd Hoefner
    Washington, DC - The farm bill reported by the conference committee renews funding for a number of important programs that were left stranded by last year's farm bill extension, but fails to make much-needed reforms in the structure of farm policy. Read more

    House, Senate Leaders Wrapping up Farm Bill Work

    News
    January 27, 2014
    Capital Press by Jerry Hagstrom
    House, Senate agricultural leaders are finishing work on a new farm bill. Read more

    Farm Bill Dairy Negotiations Down to the Wire – GMA Seeks Voluntary GMO Labeling Standard Bill – USDA Advisors Mull Safe Handling Labels

    News
    January 8, 2014
    Politico by Jenny Hopkinson
    FARM BILL DAIRY NEGOTIATIONS DOWN TO THE WIRE: The fate of the dairy market stabilization program may not be decided until the last moment as farm bill negotiators try to finish their work in time to brief conferees on a framework agreement today... Read more

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