Category: Organic Consumers Association

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The majority of people still equate the words “Green New Deal” with a plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy technologies. Very few people who hear or read those w…

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We’ve investigated each of the 2020 Presidential candidates to learn where they stand on GMOs by looking into who is funding their campaigns, what their records are as elected …

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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…

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Ben & Jerry’s will no longer state on its packaging that the milk and cream used in its ice cream comes from “happy cows.”That’s (a little) good news for consumers who have been misled for year…

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You probably don’t give antibiotics much thought—until you need them. But what happens if you need them, and they don’t work?The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says antibiotic-r…

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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…

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According to a recent poll, at least half of U.S. consumers oppose industrial factory farming.Now some federal legislators (and some presidential candidates) are catching…

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Consumer alert: Before you pay $200 an ounce for what you think is a premium, phytocannabinoid-rich hemp extract, be aware that Amazon.com doesn’t actually sell CBD. Ever search for “CBD…

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When you see a “Product of U.S.A.” label on a package of meat you should be able to assume that the meat you’re looking at came from an animal raised and processed here in the U.S….

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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…