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Pandemic Reporting—Is the Media Getting It Wrong?

June 10, 2020 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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In an interview conducted on May 21, 2020, Pat Thomas and Sam Husseini discuss the mainstream media’s coverage of the COVID-19 crisis, including the reluctance to explore all reasonable poss…

Dear USDA: What Will It Take?

June 8, 2020 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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The Brave Little State Versus Godzilla. We know how that movie ends. Vermont is the Brave Little State. In this case, Godzilla is Monsanto and the Organic Trade Association.That is an odd pairi…

Save the Planet—by Destroying Farming?

January 31, 2020 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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In a hall filled to the rafters with agroecological and regenerative farmers, a man approaches the podium. Most already know what he’s going to say, but they’ve come to listen…

Brave New World: What You Need to Know About Gene-Edited Farm Animals

January 16, 2020 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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For decades, the biotech industry has spun a narrative around genetically engineered crops that could be summed up very simply as “jam tomorrow, instead of bread and butter today.”S…

Factory Farmed Turkeys—Nothing to be Thankful For

November 23, 2019 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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Thanksgiving dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. Of the 100 million turkeys on farms around the U.S., 46 million of them will be eaten on Thanksgiving Day. Americans will con…

How Climate Change Is Changing the Menu—and What We Can Do About It

October 23, 2019 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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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…

USDA Opens the Door to New Untested, Unlabeled GMOs

August 22, 2019 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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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…

Are Factory Farmers Winning the Antibiotics War?

August 7, 2019 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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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…

Genetically Engineered Farm Animals: Regulators Rush to Keep Consumers in the Dark

July 25, 2019 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

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If the biotech industry has its way, the meat, eggs and milk on your plate could soon come from genetically engineered farm animals—and without laws requiring these products to be l…

OCA Helps Mayan Communities Fight Back Against Monsanto

April 13, 2016 Guest Animal Rights & Environment, Organic Consumers Association

ConsultaIndigenaMaya 750×500 Monsanto has a long history of sneaking around—or outright violating—the law. Nowhere has that been more evident lately[…]