Jim Gerritsen and OSGATA
Ever since the commercial introduction of its Genetically Modified Seeds in 1996, Monsanto has launched intense persecution against hundreds of farmers and seed dealers in the US and Canada alone,...
View ArticleModern farming practices are killing us
An alarming new study, accepted for publication in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology last month, indicates that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide due to its widespread use in...
View ArticleChipotle Makes a Sound Business Decision
By Ronnie Cummins, International Director Organic Consumers Association Since when does the mainstream media, in a country that worships at the altar of capitalism and the free market, launch a...
View ArticleWhy Ban Glyphosate?
On March 20 2015 the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency IARC declared that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. IARC reached its decision based on the view of 17 top cancer experts from 11...
View ArticleDARKer Days Ahead?
via OCA Today, at 10 a.m., Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) and their band of pro-GMO, anti-consumer, stomp-all-over-states’-rights outlaws will stand before the U.S. House Energy...
View ArticleGlyphosate Testing for the Masses!
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other U.S.-based regulatory bodies have created rules for how much glyphosate is allowed in drinking water, and these rules are based on the assumption...
View ArticleHarvesting Profits
Every day in America, as we consume whatever food we can access and afford, the system that supplies our sustenance is engaged in its own form of consumption. It feasts on human toil, commodifed...
View ArticleThe Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Do we want what we grow and what we eat to be determined by a few giant corporations whose first and foremost agenda is profit before people and planetary well-being? Imagine a world where small...
View ArticleCongress Must Reject the DARK Act
#StopTheDARKAct 202-224-3121 “…food companies have fought mandatory disclosures as long as there have been food labels. Determined legislators and consumer advocates have always had to fight for labels...
View ArticleGod’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and The Three Myths of Precise Genome Editing
For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public relations blitz is at full tilt. It concerns an emerging set of methods for altering the DNA...
View ArticleWhat the agrichemical industry is selling, we ain’t buying
Today, six chemical companies control 63% of the seed market, and their combined R&D budgets are 15 times higher than all U.S. public spending on agricultural research. And with recently announced...
View ArticleFinancial Conflicts at National Academy Advisory Panel on the Future of GMO...
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Synopsis: A letter from academics, non-profits and farmer groups (signed by the Bioscience Resource Project) indicts the lack of balance, perspective and independence among...
View ArticleAn Open Letter from the OCA
Hi everyone, Last night, just as I was being released from jail for dumping “Monsanto Money” on the Senate floor, the DARK Act, a bill to Deny Americans the Right to Know about foods produced with...
View ArticleBad Eggs
You buy organic eggs for any number of reasons, probably related to not wanting to support factory farms that mistreat chickens, pollute the environment and produce eggs that are nutritionally...
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