Organic
Bytes ARCHIVE 2007
Environmental, Consumer and Health News Tidbits
With an Edge!
A
biweekly email publication from the
Organic Consumers Association
ORGANIC BYTES 2007:
Special Year-End Issue
Flashback: Success Stories of 2007:
- January: Dozens of "Certified Organic" Candidates Sworn
Into Office
- February: Field Trials of Experimental Biotech Grass Halted
- March: Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Banned
- April: USDA Bans Cloned Foods from Organics
- May: Consumers Successfully Pressure Congress on Country of Origin
Labels
- June: Factory Farm Has Organic Certification Yanked
- July: Congress Preserves Local Food and Crop Safety Laws
- August: Beer Giant Goes Organic
- September: OCA Declares Victory in Its "Frankenbucks" Campaign
- October: Class Action Lawsuit in 27 States Launched Against Factory
Farms
- November: rBGH Being Driven off the Market: "rBGH-Free" Labeling
Protected
- December: Massive NAIS Threat to Family Farmers Held Off
- Alert: USDA Proposes Rule Undermining Organics & Small Farms
- Quote of the Week
- Donation Drive
- Alert Update: GE Sugar in Thousands of Non-Organic Products in
2008
- Grassroots Pressure Forces PA to Back Off on "rBGH-Free" Dairy
Labels
- Study: Healthy Cafeterias Save Schools Money
- Get Kids Vaccinated or Go to Jail?
- To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?
- OCA Poll Results: Is It Okay to Eat Meat?
- OCA Holiday Movie Recommendations: King Corn & What
Would Jesus Buy?
- Web Video of the Week: The Friendly Face of Iran
- Alert: Milk from Clones to Hit U.S. Market Soon
- Congressman Slammed for Calling Organic Consumers "Dumb"
- Interactive Map of US Factory Farms
- Have a Green Thanksgiving - Buy Local, Organic, and Fair Trade
- Synthetic Multivitamin Sales Go Through the Roof in 2007, but Do
We Really Need Them?
- Most Flu Vaccines Contain Mercury
- Quick Related Quote and Facts
- This Week's Hot Topics in OCA's Web Forum
- State Alerts:
Maine
Washington DC
California
- Find out What's Happening in Your State
- Alert: Senate Prepares to Rubber Stamp "Business as Usual" Farm
Bill
- Related Dumb Quote of the Week
- Lord of the Flies: "Organic" Dairy Feedlot Draws Heat
Over Bumper Crop of Insects
- Sunlight Cuts Risk of Many Cancers, Especially Breast Cancer
- Carniverous or Not?
- France Bans Frankencrops
- Monsanto Tries Once Again to Force-Feed Consumers rBGH
- A Brief History of Monsanto and the US Government
- Web Video of the Week: Fascism - It Could Happen Here
- Find out What's Happening in Your State
- Answer the "OCA Challenge" From the Backbone Campaign
- Organic Consumers Sue Aurora Dairy in 27 States for Violating Organic
Standards
- EPA Approves Pesticide Known to Cause Cancer & Miscarriage
- Who Advised the Approval of New Carcinogenic Pesticide?
- USDA Approves Chip Implants That Cause Cancer Tumor
- Who Approved Tumor-Causing Chips?
- Sustainability Alert: Pro-Organic Draft Farm Bill Under Attack
- Rule Requiring Pasteurization of Raw Almonds Goes Into Effect
- GE Corn Toxin Affecting Aquatic Ecosystems
- EU Blocks New GE Crops -- US Approves New GE Crops
- New Study Says Some Meat Eating Is Okay for Environment
- Your Diet Impacts Environment More Than Your Car
- Aurora Threatens Organic Consumers Association with Lawsuit
- Junk Food Company Kellogg Cleans Up its Act
- Inner City Youth Working Towards Sustainability
- Web Videos of the Week: Turning from Oil to Organics
- Breaking the Chains, Fighting Global Warming, & Ending the
War
- Getting Involved with Creative Actions
- Today's Opportunities to Plant Peace
- Air Fresheners Found to Contain Toxic Chemical
- Preconditions for an Organic Future: No War, No Warming
- FDA Cracks Down on Natural Herbal Sweetener, Stevia
- Related Quote of the Week
- Get Interactive with OCA
- OCA's Potential "Organic" Factory Farm Class Action Lawsuit
Builds Momentum
- Find Out What's in Your Tap Water and Move Beyond Toxic Plastic
Bottles
- OCA Review: Top Tap Water Safety Testing Options
- Action Alert: Put an End to Organic Dairy Fraud--Once & For
All
- important Internet News
- Alert: Genetically Engineered Sugar to Hit Stores in 2008
- Hypocrisy Quote of the Week: 180 Degree Turn in Three Months
- Grassroots Victory: Starbucks Boots Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone
from its Cafes
- Do You Have Chemical Sensitivities? Your Story is Needed in OCA's
Web Forum
- Industrial Agriculture is Driving Livestock Breeds to Extinction
- Planting Peace: Organic Farmers & Consumers Call for Farms not
Arms
- Web Video of the Week: How the Food Industry Brainwashes Americans
- Alert: USDA Says Almonds Labeled as Raw' or 'Organic' Must Be Pasteurized
- Monsanto"s Bovine Growth Hormone Being Driven Off the Market
- New York Times Exposes USDA Sabotaging Organics
- One of World's Biggest Charities Protests US Subsidies
- Study: Food Giants Brainwashing Kids
- Readers Talk Back:
Clarification on Corporate Buyouts
Eating Ethanol Production Waste? Cows aren't Garbage Disposals
- A Growing Soldiers' Rebellion that Could Stop the War
- Anheuser-Busch Pledges to Use Only Organic Hops in Its Organic Beer
- Environmental Toxins Killing 13 Million Children Per Year
- Don't Just Buy Local - Buy in Season
- Slow Food Around the World
- Coca-Cola And Cargill to Market Natural Sweetener
- Corn-Based Ethanol Adds to Global Food Crisis?
- Your Older Car May Be a Flex-Fuel Car Already
- More Info on Corporate Buyouts of Organic Companies
- Grassroots Victory: Country of Origin Labeling and NAIS
- Alert: Congress Votes On Farm Bill Today!
- More Proof That Organics Have Higher Nutritional Value
- Who Owns Your Favorite Organic Brands?
- Study Says PVC Packaging Violates Consumer Safety Laws In 19 States
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back: Organic Landscaping and Organic
Lawns
- Scotts Miracle-grow Company Sues Small Organic Fertilizer Business
- Finding a Sunscreen That is Safe and Effective
- Chemical Companies Sued by Thousands of Sterile Farmworkers
- Listen to Barbara Kingsolver on "The Ethics of Eating"
- Your Online Organic Community is Here
- Grassroots Victory:
Congress Backs Off on Suppressing Local Rights to Regulate Food Safety
- Studies of the Week:
Organic Farming Can Feed the World
Scientists Reveal That Pesticides are Reducing Crop Yields by One-Third
- America's Chemically Dependent & Toxic Lawns
- The Best Looking Organic Lawn on the Block
- Web Videos of the Week
Organic Lawns
Harry Potter Takes On Waldemart
- Your Online Organic Community is Waiting for You
- Dialing for Organic Dollars
- Alert: USDA Ignores Public Rejection of Proposal to Allow 38 Non-Organic
Ingredients and Toxic Fish Oil In Foods Labeled As "USDA Organic"
- Dialing for Organic Dollars
- Corn-based Ethanol Adds to Global Food Crisis
- Quote of the Week
- Feed the Hungry at the Gas Pump
- Alert: The 2007 Farm Bill: Sustainable Agriculture or Corporate
Welfare
- NAIS Alert: Keep 'Big Brother' Out of Farm Bill
- Soil Is One Secret Solution to Global Warming
- Your Online Organic Community Has Arrived
- Horizon Announces Further Losses As OCA Boycott Continues
- Targets of OCA's Ongoing "Organic" Factory Farm Dairy
Boycott
- Success! Factory Farm Dairy Supplying Horizon Loses Organic Certification
- Congress Considering Nearly $200 Million Funding for Organics
- OCA Launches New Web Forum: Your Online Organic Community Has Arrived
- USDA's Newest Sneak Attack on Organic Standards
- Recent History of USDA Organic Lawbreaking
- Your Help Is Still Needed
- ALERT: Monsanto & Big Food Attack Local Rights to Regulate
Food and Crops
- Venezuela Moves to Ban Frankencrops
- ALERT UPDATE: OCA's Boycott of Horizon Continues as Company's Stock
Plummets
- Planet's Population is Now More Urban than Rural
- Cancer-causing Benzene in Soda Drinks
- Watch Michael Moore's Interview and Take Action for Health Care
for All
- Green Consumers Can't Find Green Goods
- Canadians Make it Official: Tea is Good for You
- ALERT: ANOTHER SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS
- STOP CONGRESS FROM CUTTING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS
- CATASTROPHIC BEE COLONY COLLAPSE IS NOT AFFECTING ORGANIC HIVES
- MORE WAYS TO PREPARE FOR PEAK OIL
- WHEN THE ENTIRE PLANET SHOPS AT WAL-MART
- 100% PURE FRUIT JUICE IS NO LONGER LINKED TO OBESITY
- AVOIDING FRUIT JUICE SCAMS
- ORGANIC BYTES READERS TALK BACK
- SOAP, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL
- TOOLS FOR CHANGING THE WORLD
- ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ON MTV
- TELL CONGRESS WE WANT COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELS ON OUR FOOD
- PET FOOD CONTAMINATION MOVES INTO USA MEAT SUPPLY
- MORE REASONS TO BUY LOCAL
- COMEDY CENTRAL PARODIES THE RBGH CONTROVERSY
- FIVE TOP METHODS TO REDUCE YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT WHEN SHOPPING
- ORGANIC BYTES READERS TALK BACK:
IS THE FDA GOING TO START REGULATING VEGGIE JUICE AND HOLY WATER?
WHY HAVEN'T I RECEIVED YOUR ORGANIC BYTES EMAILS?
- ALERT: IT'S TIME TO PHASE OUT THE POISONOUS PLASTIC PVC
- FDA SEEKS TO REMOVE LABELING REQUIREMENTS FOR IRRADIATED FOODS
- FDA SAYS ALMONDS LABELED AS 'RAW' CAN ACTUALLY BE PASTEURIZED
- NEW PROPOSED USDA ORGANIC REGULATIONS COULD DRIVE
THOUSANDS OF SMALL ORGANIC FARMERS OUT OF BUSINESS
- FDA FORCED TO EXTEND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON FOOD FROM CLONES
- FDA RELEASES 'GUIDANCE' DOCUMENT REGARDING POLICING OF NATURAL HEALTH
- CONSUMER REPORTS SURVEY FINDS MOST U.S. CITIZENS
HEAVILY DISSATISFIED WITH FDA
- TIP OF THE WEEK: ASK FOR ORGANIC PET FOOD
- MONSANTO WANTS TO MAKE RBGH LABELING ILLEGAL
- USDA TO BAN CLONED FOODS FROM ORGANICS
- SHOPPER'S GUIDE - BUY ORGANIC & AVOID THE "DIRTY DOZEN" FRUITS & VEGETABLES
- MAD COW SAFETY TESTS LIKELY TO INCREASE THANKS TO USDA LOSING LAWSUIT
- OCA TALKS ABOUT CLONED FOOD ON THE DAILY SHOW
- JUNK FOOD INDUSTRY APPLAUDES ITSELF FOR YEARS OF "ETHICAL" ADVERTISING
TO CHILDREN
- APRIL 14th IS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
- U.S. FAMILY FARMERS CAN'T COMPETE WITH BIG PROCESSORS & IMPORTED
ORGANICS
- ORGANIC BYTES READERS TALK BACK
- USDA & LEADING ORGANIC DAIRIES CONSPIRING TO DEGRADE ORGANIC
DAIRY STANDARDS BY NOT REQUIRING PASTURE FEEDING
- USDA TO APPROVE RICE ENGINEERED WITH HUMAN GENES
- PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK: ANTIBACTERIAL HAND CLEANSERS
- FEDERAL COURT BANS MONSANTO'S GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ALFALFA
- STEP IT UP! NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
- SAN FRANCISCO MAY BE FIRST IN NATION TO REGULATE GROCERY BAGS
- WITH SPRING'S ARRIVAL COMES ORGANIC GARDEN PLANNING:
300 ORGANIC GARDEN TIPS
- MIND-BENDING SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF THE WEEK
- ORGANIC BYTES READERS TALK BACK
- TOXIC CHEMICAL BPA LEACHING INTO CANNED FOODS
- HOW TO AVOID BPA
- JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SAYS SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS
ARE DANGEROUS
- SOME OF THE 100 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE YORSELF FOR PEAK OIL
- BEES MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARING ACROSS THE U.S.
- PLANTING PEACE: STOP THE WAR: PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
FRIDAY, MARCH 9th
- FAIR TRADE CHOCOLATE ESSAY AND ART CONTEST
- HAVE YOU SUFFERED A NEGATIVE REACTION FROM SPLENDA? REPORT IT HERE!
- DEMAND A NEW "TRUTH-IN-LABELING" STANDARD FOR VITAMINS/SUPPLEMENTS
- HOW "NATURAL" OR "ORGANIC" ARE YOUR VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS?
- FDA STILL ACCEPTING COMMENTS ON APPROVAL OF CLONED FOODS
- PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK: CHILDREN'S PLASTIC LUNCH BOXES
- ENDING BOTTLED WATER ADDICTION WILL SAVE MONEY & ENVIRONMENT
- PLANTING PEACE
- MONSANTO FINED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING
- WILD MEDICINAL PLANTS TO BE PROTECTED UNDER NEW GLOBAL STANDARD
- SENATE POISED TO CUT SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROGRAM FUNDING
- AMLA: MEDICINAL FOOD & SOURCE OF HIGH QULAITY VITAMIN C
- TAKE A STAND FOR LOVE & JUSTICE ON VALENTINES DAY
- FAIR TRADE AND ORGANIC CHOCOLATES AND FLOWERS
- PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK: KRAFT "REAL" CHEESE
- FEDERAL COURT HALTS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED GRASS FIELD TRIALS
- HEALTH TIP OF THE WEEK: A CUP A DAY WILL KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK: DR. ROYAL LEE: CRUSADER FOR ORGANIC, NATURALLY
OCCURRING FOODS AND SUPPLEMENTS
- MOST POPULAR "FRUIT" PRODUCTS BEAR NO FRUIT
- AFFORDABLE BACKYARD WIND POWER NOW AVAILABLE
- ORGANIC & SUSTAINABLE FARMING INCREASES YIELDS BY 79% OR MORE
- WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK: WHAT COLOR IS YOUR MEAT?
- BOOK OF THE WEEK: WHAT'S IN YOUR MILK?
- PLANTING PEACE: WHY ORGANIC CONSUMERS MUST SPEAK OUT AGAINST WAR & GLOBAL
WARMING
- WAL-MART "ORGANICS"
- HUMAN GUINEA PIGS EAT APE DIET
- VITAMIN MYTH EXPOSED
- THE MEAT YOU EAT IS CRANKING UP THE HEAT
- WHEN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FALLS INTO THE WRONG HANDS
- WHAT'S IN YOUR MILK?
- WEB VIDEOS OF THE WEEK (FOR MOUTHS ONLY): "MOUTHS OF THE WORLD
DEMAND REAL ORGANIC FOOD" &"MERCURY VAPORS FROM YOUR
DENTAL FILLINGS"
- LOVELY THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: GIVE FAIR TRADE AND ORGANIC CHOCOLATE
AND FLOWERS THIS VALENTINES DAY
- ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE (VALENTINES CARDS FOR THE ECO-MINDED)
- PLANTING PEACE ALERT
- OCA LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN: NUTRI-CON
THE TRUTH ABOUT VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS
- RECOMMENDED READING FOR THE WEEK: VITAMIN MYTH EXPOSED
- HELP SET ORGANIC STANDARDS AND WIN A MOUNTAIN BIKE
- PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK: CAPRI-SUN "NATURAL"
BEVERAGES
- FRANKEN-WINES TO HIT U.S. THIS YEAR
- WEIRD SCIENCE: GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CANNIBAL COWS
- TIP OF THE WEEK: HOW TO FEED YOURSELF
- WEBSITE OF THE WEEK: MONITORING WASHINGTON'S 'REVOLVING DOOR'
- QUICK FACT OF THE WEEK: NATIONAL DEBT
