Organic
Bytes ARCHIVE 2008
Environmental, Consumer and Health News Tidbits
With an Edge!
A
biweekly email publication from the
Organic Consumers Association
ORGANIC BYTES 2008:
- January: Starbucks Goes rBGH-free and Doubles Fair Trade Purchase
- February: Mars and Nestle Agree to Source Ethical Chocolate & Commercial
Flowers
- March: OCA Study: Cancer-Causing Ingredient Found in Leading "Organic" and "Natural" Personal
Care Products
- May: OCA Pressures USDA to Stop Massive Feedlots from Labeling Products "Organic"
- June: Organic Consumers Fund Launches Grassroots Netroots Alliance
- July: Aerial Pesticide Spraying in California Suspended
- August: Monsanto Finally Forced to Dump rBGH
- September: OCA Plants Peace at the Republican National Convention
- October: OCA Labor Rights Victory
- November: OCA Launches 'Organic Transitions' Campaign
- December: FDA Admits Mercury Fillings May Be Dangerous to Children
- Obama Prepares to Appoint New Head of USDA:
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Probable
- Perfect Holiday Gift Idea of the Week
- Alert of the Week: Tell USDA to Close All Loopholes Allowing Organic
Dairy CAFOs
- Victory of the Week: FDA Finally Admits Mercury Fillings May Damage
Your Health
- OCA Web Forum Topic of the Week: Choosing a Truly Green Christmas
Tree
- Web Video of the Week:
How to Cook Local and Organic Foods Despite Life's Interruptions
- Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Sugar This
Holiday Season
- Social Justice News of the Week: Recent Workers' Stand-off Not Seen
Since 1930s
- Quote of the Week:
Obama's Cabinet and Grassroots Organizing Under the Next Administration
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Alert of the Week: USDA To Deregulate Genetically Engineered Crops
- Washington Update of the Week: Who Will Be the Next Secretary of
Agriculture?
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: What's the Scoop on Organic Pet
Food?
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: Green Ideas for Holiday Gifts
- Help OCA raise $75,000 by the end of December!
- Quote of the Week:Comparing Grocery Stores to Lab Rat Mazes
- Web Video of the Week: Bill Moyers Interviews Michael Pollan
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Alert: Don't Cut Short the Debate on Organic Standards
- OCA Pressure Eliminates Vilsack as USDA Secretary of Agriculture
- The Great Thanksgiving Turkey Debate
- An Organic Thanksgiving on a Limited Budget
- November 2008 National Organic Standards Board Recommendations
- Join BreakTheBailout.com
- Brita Announces Recycling Program For Used Water Filters
- Equal Exchange 48 Hour Video Contest Winners
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Alert:Tell President-Elect Obama: Sack Vilsack for Secretary of
Agriculture
- Pesticide Cocktails Cause 99% Mortality Rate in Frogs
- Organic Transitions:New Revolutionary Ride-Sharing Service
- Join the Heated Debate Over Thanksgiving Fare
- New Study Confirms GE Food Damages Fertility
- OCA Brings Consumer Comments to NOSB Meeting
- Who Owns Nature?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Justice for Beef Northwest Workers and Fair Food!
- President Obama: Please Stand Up for Organic Food & Farming
- An Overview at Obama's Agriculture Policies
- UN Says Africa Could Grow More Food With Organic Farming
- Speak Out at the National Organic Standards Board Meeting
- Quote of the Week
- Web Video: Richard Heinberg: Why Are Things Falling Apart
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Happy Regime Change
- OCA Launches Organic Transitions" Campaign
- Beyond the Gloom & Doom of Economic Depression, Climate Change
- Starbucks Doubles Fair Trade Coffee Purchases
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back
- Gardening Makes You Fit
- Quote of the Week: Global Food Crisis
- Web Video: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
- Headlines of the Week
- Alerts From Our Allies
- Video: The Grassroots Netroots Alliance: "Change in America"
- Alert: EPA Considers Weakening Fumigant Regulations Consumer
- USDA Proposes Mandatory Requirements for Organic Dairy Farms
- How Green is Your Cell Phone?
- Hard Times and Home-Cooked Meals
- Farm to School Programs Sweeping Nation--How to Start One in Your
Community
- Are You Prepared for the Worst the Economy Has to Offer?
- Headlines of the Week
- Organic Label Fradu: Round One Legal Victory for Organic Consumers
- National Call-In Day of Action for Farmworker Rights!
- Organic Facts of the Week
- Open Letter to the President-Elect by Michael Pollan
- Help Get Out the Organic Vote: Volunteer with OCA!
- Users Guide to the Backyard Chicken Movement
- How to Have a Bee-Friendly Yard
- Web Videos of the Week
- Quote of the Week
- Headlines of the Week
- Quote of the Week: The Financial Crash
- Foodies and Teamsters Put the Squeeze on Whole Foods
- Bait and Switch on Disaster Relief Brings Pentagon Another Half
Trillion
- Election Season is Here, and It's Time For Positive Change
- Organic Transition Tips of the Week
- People Uniting to Create Green Neighborhoods
- Old McDonald Outshines Ronald McDonald
- Web Video: An interview with author Naomi Wolf
- Web Forum Posting of the Week
- Headlines of the Week
- Quote of the Week
- Warning: Latest News on Global Warming May Cause Soiling of Trousers
- Alert: Say NO to Sweatshop "Natural" Beef
- Web Video: Zeitgeist - The Federal Reserve
- State Voting Alert: CO, MI, NC, NM, PA, VA, WI
- UN Reprimands Monsanto for Trying to Take Over the World's Food
Supply
- EPA and Bush Administration Busted for Gutting Factory Farm Pollution
Laws
- Mad Court vs. Mad Cow
- Web Too: Follow the Oil Money
- Headlines of the Week
- Quotes of the Week
- How to Survive the Market Meltdown
- Unlabeled Genetically Engineered Animals In the Food Supply?
- Tell Whole Foods: No Sweatshop 'Natural' Beef!
- What's Up With Pasteurized 'Raw' Almonds?
- Sleeping Through the Insanity
- Online Climate Time Machine
- Register to Vote
- Top Headlines of the Week
- OCA Plants Peace at the Republican National Convention
- 60,000 Organic Consumers Slow Food Nation
- School Lab Rats Freak Out on GE Food
- The Earth Clock
- Movie of the Week: The Battle in Seattle
- We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect
- GNA Alert: Million Doors for Peace
- How Much Do You Know About Synthetic Biology?
- Grinding Your Own Grains
- Top Headlines
- Alert: FDA OKs Irradiated Lettuce and Spinach
- Obama Backs OCA & UFW
- Victory Gardens Symbolize a New Age
- EPA Sued for Bee Colony Collapse Cover-Up
- How Do You Know Which Sweet Corn is Genetically Modified?
- Top Headlines of the Week
- GNA Alert and Video of the Week: Green Jobs Now
- Film: The World According to Monsanto
- Alert: Millions Against Monsanto
- What Happens to rBGH Now?
- How Climate Change is Destroying the American West
- How Organic Farming Can Save Our Oceans
- Video: Junk Food Now Being Fed to Cattle
- Join OCA for a Concert and Progressive Networking at RNC
- Tell Congress That Drilling Everywhere is Not a Solution
- Monsanto Finally Forced to Dump rBGH
- Court Rules Common Factory Farm Practices Are Inhumane
- OCA Calls for Review Board to Monitor the USDA Organic Program
- Web Video: Good Food
- Health Tip: Precautionary Advice for Cell Phone Use
- Cloning Your Pet
- Talk Back: What Are the Safest Sunscreens?
- Top Headlines
- USDA Report Says Organic Labeling Fraud on the Rise
- Alert: Senator Says Stop Brainwashing Children to Eat Junk Food
- Quote: Vandana Shiva
- Video: Anthrax Attacks May Be 'Inside Job'
- Six Times More Fish Fed to Livestock Than to Humans
- Sustainability Tips: Micro-Generation and Micro-Farming
- Top Articles of the Week
- What Are the Safest Sunscreens?
- Website Helps Consumers Understand Eco-Labels
- Video: Illegal Pesticide Toxin Found in 'Organic' Ginger
- How to Stop Fast Food from Taking over Your City
- State News and Alerts: AK, HI, IA, MN, AK, WY
- Quote: This Is the Next American Revolution
- Alert: Tell Starbucks We Want Fair Trade, Not Greenwashing
- Organic Voters Needed
- Essay: Ronnie Cummins - Netroots Nation at the Crossroads
- OCA's Kellogg's Boycott: Stop Monsanto's GE Sugar!
- Sign-Up for OCA's Action Alerts
- Web Forum: EPA Drops Value of American Life
- Top Articles of the Week
- Web Video: Suburban Farming: an Idea Whose Time Has Come
- Organic Consumers in Your State
- State News and Alerts
- Twenty-Nine Nations Cut-Off Food Exports
- GNA Video Alert
- Alert: OCA Launches Kellogg's Boycott Over GE Sugar
- White House Lies to the World About Biofuels
- Quote: Organic Farming Can Feed the World
- Syngenta Confesses: GM Crops Cannot Feed the World
- Related Study
- Positive Solutions: From Panic to Organic
- How to Afford Organic Food on a Tight Budget
- Web Video: The End of Suburbia
- Top OCA News Headlines of the Week
- Special State News and Alerts: AL, CO, FL, GA, LA, MS, TN
- Alert: Pass the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
- Find out How "Organic" Your Candidates Are
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back
- Alert: No New Drilling
- Natural Health Alert
- Good News: Aerial Pesticide Spraying of Urban Areas Suspended
- Find out About Your Water Footprint
- Web Videos of the Week
- Sign-Up for OCA's Action Alerts
- Top OCA News Headlines
- Special State News & Alerts: FL, MN, OK
- Organic Consumers Fund Launches Grassroots Netroots Alliance
- California Files Suit Against Whole Foods, Avalon & Others
- Government Slashes Pesticide Reporting Laws
- Government Manipulating Data on Workers Injuries at Slaughterhouses
- World News Tidbits
- OCA Files Suit for False "Organic" Certification of Personal
Care Products
- A Deeper Look at the Validity of Homeopathy
- How to Read Eco-Labels
- State News and Alerts: AZ, CA, IL, NC, OR, WI
- Alert: Mainstream Media Attempts to Bury Homeopathy
- Alert: Stop Bush's Biotech Bullying!
- Survey: CBS, New York Times Poll Consumers About GE Foods
- Quote: Biotech Corporations Prepare to Profit off Climate Crisis
- Small Farms Are More Productive and Profitable
- Consumer Groups Pressure USDA to Investigate Horizon "Organic" Factory
Farm
- NPR Takes a Look at the Future of Laboratory-Grown Meat
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back:
Are There Any Recycled Home Water Filtration Systems?
Are Any Plastics Safe for Use With Food?
- Web Forum: Whole Foods Market
- State News & Alerts: CA, MD, NE, OR, PA, TX, WA
- Monsanto, Cargill, and ADM Rake in Billions on World Food Crisis
- Alert: GE Candy for Mothers Day?
- Hazardous & Unlabeled Nanotech Pesticides in Consumer Products
- Whole Foods Market: the Good and the Bad
- How to Read Labels on Plastic Containers
- Videos of the Week: Vanishing of the Bees & What Would Jesus
Buy?
- Take Back the Filter
- State News & Alerts: CA, IL, IN, MI, SC
- Fake "Organic" Bodycare Care Companies Go to Court
- Alert: (Could Be) Last Chance to Take Action on Farm Bill
- Sustainability Tip &; Quote: Rip out Your Lawn...
- How Your Diet Affects Global Climate Change
- Electric Cars Soon to Hit U.S. Market
- How to Shop at Whole Foods Market
- Celebrate World Fair Trade Day May 10
- Web Video of the Week
- Apologies: Clarification of "Organic" Companies That Did
Not Test Positive for Carcinogen
- Special State Alerts: DE, DC, FL, KY, MN, MO, NJ, OH, RI, VA, WV
- Alert: Put Organic Back Into "Organic" & Natural
Back Into "Natural"
- Web Video: The World According to Monsanto
- Earth Week Goodies
- Call Congress Today! Support Organic and Safer Pest Management!
- Tell Cargill and ADM to Stop Supporting Child Labor Abroad
- Quick Tidbits
- UN Says Oil, Climate Change and Biofuels Producing Global Unrest
- Quote: The Silver Lining Around the Cloud of Higher Food Prices
- Breaking Chains: Share Your Stories With Us!
- Alert: End Modern-Day Slavery in U.S. Fields
- OCA Threatens to Sue Body Care Companies Falsely Labeling Products
as Organic
- Good News: Wal-Mart Goes rBGH-Free
- Feds Slaughter of Wild Bison Beats 20th Century Records
- Quote of the Week
- Take Action on Pesticides and Farm Bill
- Interview With Canadian Family Farmer Who Defeated Goliath Monsanto
- A Nation Built on Unsustainability - Fuel, Food, and Debt
- On the Eve of Peak Oil- How to Cut Fuel Costs
- Book of the Week: Farewell, My Subaru
- Consumer Alert: Cancer-Causing Ingredient 1,4-Dioxane Found
in Leading "Organic" and "Natural" Personal Care
Products
- How to Avoid 1,4-Dioxane in Your Personal Care Products
- Industry Ignores Consumer Concerns, Creates Bogus "Oasis" Organic
Standard
- OCA Director Ronnie Cummins on How to Solve America's Health Care
Crisis
- Farm Workers and Animal Rights Activists Lose Freedom of Speech
Sustainability
- Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) 101
- Toxic Soup of Plastic Twice the Size of U.S. Forms in Ocean
- GE Fish Escape Into the Wild
- Book of the Week: The War On Bugs
- Web Program of the Week: A Closer Look at Chinese Organics
- Alert: EPA Gives Factory Farms Right to Ignore Pollution Laws
- Bush League Science Exposed As Fraudulent
- Government Mutes Scientists
- Mysterious Brain Disease Strikes Factories in Two More States
- How Is the Federal Budget Like a Pile of Oreo Cookies?
- Health Implications of Fluoride in Your Drinking Water
- Cloned Meat in Food Supply
- Grow Organic Food in Your Home Year-Round
- Biodynamics 101: Going a Step Beyond USDA Organic
- Health Alert: Tell the EPA to Ban the Toxic Pesticide Endosulfan
- Children Fed Non-Organic Food Have Pesticides in the Urine
- New Studies Tie Agro-Fuels to Global Warming
- Food Labeling Alert: Put the "Natural" Back in Meats Labeled
As "Naturally Raised"
- How to Show Your Love Without Breaking the Bank
- Eco-Friendly Flowers Are Budding Across U.S. This Valentines
- FDA Continues Criminalization of Natural Sweetener
- Mysterious Brain Disease Surfaces at Hormel Slaughterhouse
- Quick Tidbits: Web Video of the Week & Newsletter of the
Week
- The Dark Side of Ethanol and Biodiesel Subsidies
- Agro-Fuel Facts
- What Is the Future of Bio-Fuels?
- Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Child Slavery on Valentine's
Day
- Unlabeled Allergens in Food Threaten Children's Health
- Who in the World Loves Fast Food the Most?
- Major Network Told Not to Air Program Highlighting Vaccine Problems
- Web Video of the Week: Sweet Misery - a Poisoned World
- Alert: Put the Natural Back in Meats Labeled As "Naturally
Raised"
- Alert Update: Consumers May Lose Right to Know if Non-Organic Milk
Is Free of Monsanto's Controversial rBGH
- Web Program of the Week: Organic GE Food?
- The Top Agricultural Breakthroughs of 2007
- What Happens Within the First Hour of Drinking a Cola?
- Despite Consumer Opposition FDA Approves Food from Clones
- Mother of Four Becomes Leading Expert on Additives & Allergies
- Ten Food-Based Steps to Take to Protect Your Family's Health
- This Week's Hot Topics in OCA's Web Forum
- USDA Organic' Personal Care Sales Explode
- Caribou Joins Starbucks in Phasing out rBGH
- OCA's Donation Drive Goes Into Overtime
- Splenda Goes to Court
- Solar Power Gets Affordable
- Web Videos of the Week:
OCA National Director Speaks out on 'Farms Not Arms'
Vanishing of the Bees
The Story of Stuff
- This Week's Hot Topics on OCA's Web Forum:
