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OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial...
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OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial issues around food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, including pesticide use, and other food- and agriculture-related topics.In the U.S., OCA education campaigns reach more than two million consumers and organic businesses either through our newsletter, our social media networks or mainstream and progressive news outlets. Our U.S. and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
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Organic Consumer Association
Organic Consumer Association
The 3 Trade Lawyers Who Will Decide If Mexicans Can Be Forced to Eat the U.S.’s GMO Corn
7 MAY 2024 · Mexico has been making bold policy moves against genetically modified crops and the toxic pesticides they were engineered to be grown with, by phasing-out imports of GMO corn and showing its support for food sovereignty, soil regeneration and agroecology.
But, how serious could Mexico be, if it is now ceding its national sovereignty to a three-person panel of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) under which the United States is challenging its 2023 Corn Decree?
Supposedly, Mexico wants food sovereignty and self-sufficiency, but apparently, it values trade with the United States and Canada so much that it is willing to let its democratically enacted laws be superseded by this so-called “free-trade” agreement. (What’s so “free” about it, if it can be used to force a country to import stuff it doesn’t want?!)
Fight For the Sovereign Right to Reject GMOs! Take action here: https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/67470/action/1
Blocking the Sun Is NOT a Climate Solution!
18 JUL 2023 · https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/54687/action/1
“[W]hen you start to reflect light away from the planet, you can easily imagine a chain of events that would extinguish life on earth.”
That’s what https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith_(physicist), one of the world’s top solar engineering scientists, told the https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/14/the-climate-fixers about his own life’s work.
With a warning like that, it’s easy to see why Mexico is https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/2023/01/by-prohibiting-solar-geoengineering-experiments-mexico-sets-a-global-example-of-precaution/. That, and the fact that a start-up called “Make Sunsets” was caught trying to block the sun in Baja California Sur—without permission from, or even notifying, the government!
Moving in the other direction, the Biden Administration is officially exploring ways to https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Congressionally-Mandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf, while the European Union has recently floated “https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/2023/JOIN_2023_19_1_EN_ACT_part1_v7.pdf” for going forward with research into this misguided and ineffective attempt to address the global climate crisis.
Few policy makers in the U.S. have tried to wrap their heads around this issue, but a group of Rhode Island state legislators have drafted a bill, the http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText23/HouseText23/H5866.pdf that’s a great introduction.
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/54687/action/1
Take Action: Ban Gain-of-Function Biolabs
11 JUL 2023 · People are worried about the https://organicconsumers.org/the-biolabs-in-your-backyard/.
From https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/26/business/labs-replace-offices-across-greater-boston-pushback-is-mounting-wary-neighbors/, Massachusetts, to https://apnews.com/article/national-bio-lab-manhattan-kansas-opening-5fb349d58192d6821d4efa5d5a80731b, Kansas, to https://theintercept.com/2021/06/09/biolab-bayer-berkeley-covid/, California, activists have tried to stop risky gain-of-function research to weaponize potential pandemic pathogens.
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/54294/action/1
A Conversation with Hannah Bernhardt - Medicine Creek Farm
11 JUN 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
A Conversation with Elizabeth Henderson - Peacework Farm
7 MAY 2020 · Elizabeth Henderson has farmed at Peacework Farm in Wayne County, New York, producing organically grown vegetables for the fresh market for over 30 years. Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and other publications, and she is the lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture.
The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
A Conversation with Chris Peterson - Iowa Farmer
30 APR 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
Conversation with Seth Watkins of Pinhook Farm
20 APR 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
Conversation with Julie Davenson of Stonewall Farm
9 APR 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
Conversation with Francis Thicke of Radiance Dairy in Iowa
8 APR 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
Farmers & Ranchers For a Green New Deal Podcast Teaser
8 APR 2020 · The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.
Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/
OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial...
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OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial issues around food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, including pesticide use, and other food- and agriculture-related topics.In the U.S., OCA education campaigns reach more than two million consumers and organic businesses either through our newsletter, our social media networks or mainstream and progressive news outlets. Our U.S. and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
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