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Organic Consumers Association (OCA) filed suit against Mowi USA and Mowi Ducktrap for deceptive marketing and advertising of smoked Atlantic salmon products sold under the Ducktrap River of Maine brand.The action was filed by Richman Law Group on behal…
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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…
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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…
Read moreThe Organic Consumers Association today announced that it has sued Smithfield Foods for falsely advertising Smithfield pork products as the “safest” U.S. pork products.The complaint was filed on behalf of OCA by Richman Law Group in D.C. Superior Court…
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Farmers markets in the Twin Cities and across the upper Midwest will open soon, but as the Minnpost reports, they are definitely going to look different this year.Nearly 30 …
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Organic Consumers Association was founded in 1998, in part to shut down plans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow foods containing genetically engineered ingredients…
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Corporate lobbyists have no shame. Neither does Congress. Or the Trump administration.They’re using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to shovel taxpayer dollars into corpor…
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COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods, climate stability, democracy—our very survival as a human …
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Trump wants a $500 billion slush fund to bail out his favorite corporations—including his own—that would be doled out in secret. We can’t let Trump get away with stealing fr…
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With one in nine Americans already struggling to put food on the table, food insecurity and lack of access to healthy food are problems in the best of times. Now, the COVID-19…
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