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Organic farming is a win-win for people, animals and the planet. But it’s so much more than a set of practices used to grow food. Organic agriculture takes a holistic approach that em…
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Let’s Boycott and Ban Factory Farms
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October 16 was World Food Day. So we thought it fitting to remind consumers why it’s critical to boycott industrially produced meat, and why we should never give up the battle to end factory farm…
Read moreHow Climate Change Is Changing the Menu—and What We Can Do About It
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What will we eat in the future? What was once an rhetorical musing has now become the critical question of our time as scientists grapple with tricky questions about life—and larde…
Read moreSix Children
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Over the course of next year, six children will stare down Monsanto in U.S. courtrooms.Six children, whose childhoods have been interrupted by excruciatingly painful cancer treatments.Six…
Read moreToday! #StrikeWithUs for Climate Action – Including Regenerative Agriculture!
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#StrikeWithUs has a plan to solve the climate crisis and it includes regenerative agriculture! If you agree with the demands below, join the climate strike on September 20. You c…
Read moreUSDA Opens the Door to New Untested, Unlabeled GMOs
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Our right to know if it’s GMO is officially under attack—again.On June 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed to overhaul longstanding regulations governing genetically modified organis…
Read moreNew USDA Report on Climate and Ag Misses Key Fact: Industrial Ag Contributes 44-57 Percent of GHG Emissions
Why Do the EPA and USDA Continue to Perpetuate the ‘9-Percent Lie?’FINLAND, Minn. – July 23, 2019 – Ronnie Cummins, co-founder of Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International, made this statement in response to a report issued today by …
Read moreDeadline Extended: Tell EPA to Ban Monsanto’s Roundup!
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We now have until September 3 to let the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) know why glyphosate, he active ingredient in Monsanto (now Bayer)’s Roundup herbicide should …
Read moreAre Factory Farmers Winning the Antibiotics War?
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls antibiotic resistance “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.” In the U.S., at least 2 million people get a…
Read moreOrganic Consumers Association Sues Twinings Tea for False and Misleading Advertising
Nonprofit alleges Twinings’ false claims of “pure” and “100% natural ingredients” on products that contain unnatural herbicide and insecticide residues are misleading to consumers.WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 9, 2019 – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA…
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