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OCA Addresses Organic Standards Issues at Spring NOSB Meeting

Press Release
April 27, 2015

La Jolla, Calif.—The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today delivered 17,000 signatures to members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) urging the Board to phase out the use of synthetic methionine in poultry feed. The signatures were delivered along with testimony on the issue.

The feed additive, which acts as a growth promoter, is only given to poultry

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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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Take Action 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
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