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Essays by Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association

Climate-Friendly Food and Farming: Why We Need Labels on Factory-Farmed Food

January 17, 2013
Common Dreams
by Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association
Essay

A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming. And it's led them to this sobering conclusion: Our modern energy-, chemical- and...Read more

Are Wal-Mart and Big Food Lobbying the FDA for a GMO Labeling Law?

January 10, 2013
AlterNet
by Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association
Essay

High-level executives from some of the U.S.'s largest food corporations are meeting with the FDA behind closed doors this week to lobby for a mandatory federal GMO labeling law. Could it be that bad press and consumer backlash have dulled the...Read more

GMO Food Fight: Round Two 2013

January 3, 2013
Common Dreams
by Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association
Essay

On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million voters scared the hell out of Monsanto and Big Food Inc. by coming within a razor's edge of passing the first statewide mandatory...Read more

Is Whole Foods Sincere About its Support for Labeling Genetically Modified Foods?

October 4, 2012
Alternet
by Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association
Essay

After months of pressure from the organic community, including thousands of its customers, the leadership of Whole Foods Market on September 11 endorsed Proposition 37, the California Ballot Initiative to require mandatory labels on genetically...Read more