Organic Bytes ARCHIVE 2009
Environmental, Consumer and Health News Tidbits
With an Edge!
A
biweekly email publication from the
Organic Consumers Association
Index of Recent Organic Bytes
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ORGANIC BYTES 2009:
Issue #206 12/30/09 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Why We Should All Eat More Organic Food
- How to Identify Real Organic Food
- Organic Food On a Budget
Issue #205 12/23/09 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Beyond the Dark Days: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
- The High Cost of So-Called Cheap Food
- Will We Survive the Climate Crisis?
- The Sun Returns! The Future is Organic!
- Making the Organic Transition: Taking on the Fertilizer, Garbage and Sludge Industries
Issue #204 12/17/09 - HTML - PDF Version
Special Issue! Millions Against Monsanto: Save the Planet
- Actions of the Week: Stop Monsanto!
- Action Update: Monsanto Wins the Angry Mermaid Award
- Health News of the Week: Dangers of Monsanto GMO Corn
- Spoof Monsanto Site: ILoveMeatTube.com
- Little Bytes: More News of the Week
Issue #203 12/10/09 - HTML - PDF Version
Special Issue: The Copenhagen Climate Talks
- Video/Action of the Week: Scrap Cap & Trade, Force EPA to Crack Down on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Pollution!
- Action Updates: Art for the Climate, the World Wants a Real Deal
- Corporate Climate Criminal: Monsanto Nominated for Angry Mermaid Award
- Climate Justice Heroes: La Via Campesina in Copenhagen
- Zero Waste for Zero Warming: More Compost, Less GHGs from Landfills
Issue #202 12/3/09 - HTML - PDF Version
2009 Highlights & Victories
- January: The Inauguration of Hope & Change
- February: Yoplait & Dannon Go Growth Hormone-Free
- March: Stop NAIS! Over 10,000 OCA Activists Take Action
- April: Organic Garden at the White House
- May: USDA Gives Farmers $50 Million to Go Organic
- June: Via Organica Launched in Mexico
- July: Organic Concerns Shape Food Safety Debate
- August: Whole Foods Promises to Sell More Organics in 2010
- Survey of the Week: Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) Market Claims Their Organic Foods Are Reasonably Priced: Is This True?
- September: USDA Disowns "Organic-Biotech" Report
- October: Court Declares GMO Sugar Beet Approval Illegal
- November: NOSB Tells USDA to Stop Organic Cosmetics Fraud
- December: Stop Siddiqui! 77,000 People Take Action
- 2010: Vote With Your Dollars on OCA's 2010 Priorities
Issue #201 11/26/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Thanksgiving and the Organic Revolution
- 75% of the World's Food was discovered and cultivated by the native farmers and hunter-gatherers of North, Central and South America
- A Cultivated Eden Described as Wilderness
- 4,200 Years of Farming on the Colorado Plateau
- The Wayana's Cultivated Eden
- The Milpa System and 20,000 Varieties of Corn
- Andean Terraced Potato Patches, With Thousands of Varieties
Issue #200 11/19/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Outrage of the Week: San Francisco Giving Away Toxic Sewage Sludge to Backyard Gardeners and Schools and Calling it "Organic Fertilizer"
- Quote of the Week: The Organic Answer to World Hunger
- Alert Update of the Week: Stop Obama's Monsanto Men
- Art Project Update: The Organic Answer to Climate Change
- Videos of the Week: Fair Food, Not Farm Labor Slavery
- Survey of the Week: Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) Market Claims Their Organic Foods Are Reasonably Priced
- Books of the Week: The Value of Nothing (Video Preview) - Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Slideshow Presentation)
- Little Bytes: Biotech Increases Pesticide Use - We Are All in Denial About Catastrophic Climate Change - BPA and Male Sexual Problems - Bellying Up to Environmentalism - There's a Better Way to Feed the World
- Grassroots Netroots News: Planting Peace, Justice, Democracy, Health and Sustainability
Issue #199 11/13/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Will Obama Walk His Talk on Organics?
- Alert Updates of the Week: Organic Standards Board Votes, Organic Cosmetics Fraud, GMO Vaccines in Organic, Organic Animal Welfare, Nanotechnology in Organic
- Victory of the Week: New York Times Echoes OCA's Charges Against Siddiqui
- Art Project of the Week: The Organic Answer to Climate Change
- Video of the Week: Stop Gambling on Hunger
- Book of the Week: Poisoned Profits. The Toxic Assault on Our Children
- Little Bytes: BPA, Silk, GE Corn, Climate Change and the Nitrogen Fix
- Grassroots Netroots News: Planting Peace, Justice, Democracy, Health and Sustainability
Issue #198 11/5/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Cancer Expert Says, "Go Organic"
- Alert of the Week: Boycott Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone
- Series of the Week: The Danger of Livestock Waste
- Upcoming Campaign of the Week: Organic Fertilizer or Toxic Sludge?
- Little Bytes: Food Industry's Ties to Policy, Feces Feed Ban, Soil Carbon
- Grassroots Netroots News: Planting Peace, Justice, Democracy, Health and Sustainability
Issue #197 10/29/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Obama, Which Side Are You On?
- Alert of the Week: GMOs & Toxic Sludge in Organic? Stop Siddiqui!
- Organic Photo of the Week: That's Some Carrot!
- Organic News of the Week: Sweden Labels Food's Carbon Footprint
- Videos of the Week: Hungry in America, Dangerous GM Foods
- National Swine Flu Emergency Update
- OHIO ALERT: Stop the Corporate Power Grab! Vote No on Issue 2!
- Little Bytes: OCA's Director on Radio Tonight, Michael Pollan Documentary, and More
- Grassroots Netroots News: Planting Peace, Justice, Democracy, Health and Sustainability
Issue #196 10/23/09 - HTML
- Quote of the Week: The Organic Revolution - How We Can Stop Global Warming
- Video Alert of the Week: Ripe for Revolution, The Organic Solution
- Climate Resources: The Science of Agriculture and Climate Change
- Climate Actions of the Week: #1 Write to Congress - #2 350.org - #3 The Compost, Your Own Carbon Piggy Bank
- Guerilla Theatre of the Week: The Yes Men
- Little Bytes: Stop Organic Fraud, Abuse of Farm Workers & CA Fumigation
- Planting Peace and Grassroots Netroots News
- Organic Consumers Association on the Radio
- Travel to Mexico on OCA's "Via Organica" Tour November 15-22
Issue #195 10/15/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: World Food Day - Organic Is the Answer to Food Security
- Alert of the Week: Get Genetically Engineered Vaccines Out of Organic!
- Victory of the Week: Kucinich Secures Funding for Organic Farming Research
- Alert Update of the Week: Obama's Biotech & Chemically Dependent Friends
- Movie of the Week: Meet the Farmer TV
- Book of the Week: The Raw Milk Revolution
- Organic News of the Week: MOOMilk Is Local and Organic
- Little Bytes: Go Locavore and Cool the World
- Planting Peace and Grassroots Netroots News
Issue #194 10/8/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Agriculture and Climate Change
- Alert of the Week (and Video): "Organic Is the Answer to Climate Change!"
- Alert Updates of the Week: Safeguard Animal Welfare! Stop Labeling Fraud! Ban Nanotech! And a New Chance to Stop Toxic Pesticide Methyl Iodide
- Movie of the Week: Vanishing of the Bees
- Book of the Week: Uncertain Peril - Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
- Little Bytes: Global Warming, Factory Farms and Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccines
- Planting Peace and Grassroots Netroots News
Issue #193 10/1/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Organic Can Save the World
- Victories of the Week: GMO Sugar & NOSB Appointments
- OCA Takes on Organic Fraud at Expo East
- Online Calculator Measures Benefits of Organic Food
- BPA Lies
- Little Bytes: Mandatory Vaccines, Garbage Becomes Compost, Saving the Bees
- Planting Peace and Grassroots Netroots News
Issue #192 9/23/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Fiddling as the Earth Burns
- OCA Prepares for Boycott of Personal Care Products Mislabeled as Organic
- Whole Foods and UNFI Update: Protest at Expo East in Boston
- Video of the Week: Got a Farming Fantasy?
- Little Bytes: Noteworthy News of the Week
- Grassroots Netroots News: Health, Sustainability, Justice, Peace, Democracy
Issue #191 9/17/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote: Alice Waters on Edible Education
- Eliminating Labeling Fraud in Organic Personal Care Products
- OCA Confronts Whole Foods & UNFI in Boston
- Help Pass The California Transition To Organics Act
- Organic Sales Growth Down to Seven Percent; "Natural" Claims Compete
- Organic Milk Reduces Allergies
- Obamas Launch a White House Farmers Market
- Via Organica: Visit Mexico with the OCA October 4-11
Issue #190 9/11/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Progressives Deserve a Seat at the Table
- Alert : Whole Foods Threatens to Sue OCA
- Alert Update: The "Terminator" Vetoes Farm Workers' Rights
- Study Says Organic Is Healthier
- Swine Flu Online Forum Discussion - And Free DVD!
- Little Bytes: Economics of Local Food, No Impact Man, News from the GNA
Issue #189 9/3/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quotes of the Week: Obama and USDA Finally Speak Out for Local Food
- Victory of the Week: USDA Disowns "Organic-Biotech" Report
- Alert of the Week: Farm Workers' Rights Now!
- Alert Update of the Week: Forced Vaccinations Bill Passes MA Senate
- Web Video of the Week: Money-Driven Medicine
- Planting Peace News of the Week: Monsanto Profits in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Little Bytes: Vermicomposting, Your Garden and More
Issue #188 8/28/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Roundup Researcher - "I will not shut my mouth"
- Alert of the Week: Tell the USDA GE Frankenfoods & Nanotechnology Aren't Organic
- Alert Update of the Week: Swine Flu and Vaccine Nation
- Gardening News of the Week: Vegetable Gardens Grow Employee Morale
- Local Food News of the Week: Obama's White House Farmers Market
- Video of the Week: The Organic Vegetable Gardeners of Havana
- Via Organica News of the Week: Lower Cholesterol on Mexican Eco-Tour
- Web Forum Discussion of the Week: Do You Support Universal Health Care?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #187 8/21/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote: Jim Hightower: "USDA: Irresponsible, Dangerous, and Stupid"
- USDA Wants Genetic Engineering Allowed in Organic
- Vacation with the OCA and Savor Mexico's Growing Organic Movement
- Alert: Factory Pig Farms & Big Pharma Vaccines
- Vaccine Nation
- Whole Foods CEO Ignites Boycott
- Meat-Eating and Soy Products
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #186 8/12/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- -Quote of the Week: Whole Foods Boss: We Sell a 'Bunch of Junk'
- Alert Update of the Week: Whole Foods Market Bows to OCA Pressure--Promises
to Sell Significantly More Organics in 2010
- Climate Change News of the Week: Washington Post Reports Meat Eating
is 'Huge Contributor' to Climate Change
- Sustainability News of the Week: Urine Luck! Pee May Be the Fuel
of the Future
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: How Can You NOT Afford Organic Foods?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #185 8/4/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week
- Alert of the Week: Send a Letter to the Editor: Organic Food IS
More Nutritious
- Alert Update of the Week: Food Safety Act Passes House
- Related Web Forum Topic of the Week: Food Safety Enhancement Act
Debate Heats Up
- Health News of the Week: New FDA Report Says Mercury Fillings Are
Safe -- But Are They?
- Web Video of the Week: Why Organic is More Important Now Than Ever
- Sustainability News of the Week: Navajo Nation Approves Green Jobs,
Rejects Fossil Fuel Economy
- More Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #184 7/29/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Everything I Really Need to Know, I Learned Growing
Up on a Farm
- Alert of the Week: The Food Safety Enhancement Act Hurts Small Farmers
and Organics
- Campaign Update of the Week: What's Going on With OCA's Coming Clean
Campaign?
- Related News: USDA Seeks Comments on Organic Certification of Soaps
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back: Food Toxins 101 -- An Intro to
Hexane
- Web Video of the Week: How Monsanto & Fox News Prevented Americans
from Learning About Bovine Growth Hormone
- More Headlines of the Week...
Issue #183 7/22/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Don't Let Obama Put Monsanto Cheerleaders in
Charge of Food Safety
- Alert Update of the Week: Why OCA and Fair Trade Advocates Are Pressuring
Whole Foods and UNFI
- Organic News of the Week: Organic Dairy Farmers Tell Vilsack to
Crack Down on Aurora & Horizon's Factory Farm Dairy Feedlots
- Related Quote of the Week: Senator Calls for Investigation of Dean
Foods/Horizon Monopoly Practices
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Food Toxins 101: An Intro to Hexane
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #182 7/15/09 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: New Study Reveals Major Health Problems Linked
to Genetically Engineered Foods
- Alert of the Week: Support the OCA's National Organic Standards
Board Endorsements
- Alert Update of the Week: Tell Whole Foods and UNFI: Organic Means
Respecting Workers' Rights
- Survey of the Week: Consumers Think 'Natural' is Greener Than 'Organic'
- Related Web Forum Posting of the Week: The Debate Over 'Natural' Versus Organic Products - Where Do You Stand On This Issue?
- Good News of the Week: Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics
in Livestock
- More Headlines of the Week
Issue #181 7/9/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert Update of the Week: Natural Food Inc. Responds to OCA's Criticisms
- Quote of the Week: On Factory Farming
- Alert of the Week: Tell USDA Deputy Secretary the Difference Between
Factory and Family Farms
- Food Safety News of the Week: OCA on New Food Safety Bill-HR 2749
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Why I'm Ditching Peace Cereal
- In Memoriam - Craig Winters (1951-2009)
- Web Video of the Week: Living a Nightmare: 24 Minute Factory Farm
Film
- Consumer Tip of the Week: 2009 Sunscreen Consumer Guide
- -Other Headlines of the Week
Issue #180 7/1/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News of the Week: Horizon Sells Out Organic Farmers With
New "Natural" Milk
- Alert of the Week: Whole Foods Market Undermining Our Organic Future
- Related News of the Week: Dr. Bronner's Ups Ante in Lawsuit Against
'Organic' Personal Care Cheaters
- Alert Update of the Week: Stop Big Brother's NAIS
- -Political Plunder of the Week: Who is Spending What on Lobbying?
- Sustainability News of the Week: Some Resources for Getting Started
with a Backyard Chicken Coop
- Web Video of the Week: Bill McKibben on U.S. Climate Politics
- Other Headlines of the Week
Issue #179 6/24/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell Hershey's to Stop Abusive Child Labor in
Cocoa Production
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Fair Expectations: Rainforest Alliance
v. Fairtrade
- Alert Update of the Week: A Critique of Some Recent Articles on Genetically Engineered Wheat
- Food Safety Tip of the Week: New Web Search Tool Shows What Pesticides
are on Your Food
- Mad Cow News of the Week: Scientist Warns that Farmed Fish Could
be a Source of Mad Cow Disease
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #178 6/17/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: A Quarter Million Experimental "Frankentrees" to
Be Grown in U.S.
- Web Program of the Week: NPR Reports on Controversy Surrounding
Genetically Engineered Trees
- Another Alert of the Week: Tell Obama & Vilsack to Drop Bush's Pro-GMO Rules
- Join OCA Tours in Central Highlands of Mexico
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Who Should Sit on the National Organic
Standards Board?
- Good News of the Week: Organic Advocate Appointed to High Level
USDA Position
- Organic Transition News of the Week: U.S. Department of Energy's
Report Indicates the Era of Cheap Oil is Over
- Tip of the Week: How to Withdraw from the NAIS Database - A Step
By Step Guide
- Food Safety News of the Week: More Problems With BPA and How to
Avoid It
- Other Headlines of the Week...
Issue #177 6/10/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Doctors Call for Ban on Genetically Modified
Foods
- Alert of the Week: The American Dietetic Association Buries Organic
Nutrition Facts
- Organic Nutrition News of the Week: Why Government Nutrition Programs
Shouldn't Ban Organic
- OCA Web Forum Posting of the Week: Silk Soymilk Packaging Scam
- Plunder of the Week: Judge's Ruling Fuels Meltdown in Organic Dairy
Industry
- Health News of the Week: Study Raises Fresh Questions about the
Safety of Water Fluoridation
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #176 6/3/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Stop Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Wheat
- Related Quote of the Week: The Hazards of Genetic Engineering
- Related Sustainability News of the Week: How to Grow Your Own Wheat and Make Your Own Flour
- Alert Update of the Week: Organic Dairy Family Farmers Need Support
- Web Video of the Week: The Genetic Conspiracy - Are Genetically Engineered Foods Dangerous?
- Study of the Week: New EPA Study Shows 1,4 Dioxane is 17 Times More Toxic Than Originally Thought
- Consumer Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Sugar
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #175 5/29/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell American Public Media to Stop Letting Monsanto Leverage Its Reputation
- Graduation Quote of the Week: You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring
- Web Video of the Week: Understanding Peak Oil
- Sustainability Tool of the Week: Downloadable Curriculum Teaches Food Sovereignty
- Clarification of the Week: Silk Brand Soymilk's Importation of Soybeans from China
- Headlines and Articles of the Week--
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Good Methods for Finding Local Food
- Environment News of the Week: Pollution Can Change Your DNA in 3 Days, Study Suggests
Issue #174 5/21/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- -Alert of the Week: Healthy, Local & Organic School Food Now
- Alert Update of the Week: Former Monsanto Lawyer Michael Taylor & the White House Food Safety Working Group
- Quote and Consumer Tip of the Week: New Survey Finds a Number of 'Organic' Soy Food Brands Importing Beans from China
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: When Local Goes Industrial
- Web Video of the Week: Food Inc
- -Health Tip of the Week: Fructose Truly is Worse Than Glucose
- Labor Unions in America: Pro or Con?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Victory of the Week: EPA Has Revoked Approval of Two Moth Pesticides Used for Aerial Spraying in California
- Community Solution of the Week: Smart Jitney Transportation in the Coming Era of Peak Oil & Fuel Scarcity
- Organic Transitions News of the Week: 'Farm in a Barrel': Raise Fish and Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
Issue #173 5/13/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Secretary Vilsack: Support Organics, Not Genetic Engineering
- OCA Web Forum Topic of the Week: Does Homeopathy Work or is it Quackery?
- Victory and Newsflash of the Week: Federal Assistance Available for Farmers Making Transition to Organic
- Web Video of the Week: How to Start Your Organic Veggie & Herb Garden
- Essay of the Week: We Need Food and Farming Regulation Now
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #172 5/7/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quotes of the Week: On the Contemporary Crisis
- Alert Update of the Week: Swine Flu: Reprieve or Lull Before the Storm?
- Health Tip: Swine Flu and the Pandemic of 1918 -- How Homeopathy Cured Flu Victims
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Organic & Sustainable on a Food Stamp Budget
- Web Video of the Week: Pete Seeger at 90
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #171 4/29/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- -Alert of the Week: Ban Factory Farms Spreading Deadly Flu
- Related Web Video of the Week: Bird and Swine Flu - Viruses of Our Own Hatching
- Tips of the Week: How To Avoid Swine Flu
- Grassroots Victory of the Week: rBGH Labeling Bill Vetoed
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Clarification on How to Avoid MSG
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #170 4/22/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Sustainability News of the Week: OCA Announces Summer Study Tours
in the Central Highlands of Mexico
- Alert Update of the Week: OCA Submits Comments on Organic Fraud
to the NOSB
- Good News of the Week: EPA Will Mandate Tests on Suspected Endocrine
Disruptors
- Food Safety Tip of the Week: How to Avoid MSG
- Quote of the Week: Surviving the Economic Crisis by Leaving Behind
the Rat-Race
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #169 4/15/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News of the Week: OCA Under Attack
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards
Tell the NOSB to Strengthen Organic Standards - Grassroots Victory of the Week: Mars Takes a Step Forward Towards Sustainability -- Urge Them to Go Further
- Political Plunder of the Week: Tell Obama Not to Appoint Former Monsanto Lawyer on White House Food Safety Panel
- Web Video of the Week: The Psychological Benefits of Gardening
- Quote of the Week
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #168 4/9/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News: Urge Governor Sebelius to Veto rBGH Bill
- Alert of the Week: Save Organic Standards: Tell the USDA and the NOSB to Protect Organic Standards
- Alert Update of the Week: HR 875 Update: Will the Real "Monsanto Bill" Please Stand Up?
- Climate News of the Week: USDA Revises Plant Hardiness Map
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: Eight Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
- Food Safety News of the Week: New Study Finds Infant Formula Contaminated With Rocket Fuel Chemical
- Web Video of the Week: Shoveling Water on Vimeo
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #167 3/26/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week: Organic 'Victory' Garden Planted at White House
- Alert of the Week: Make the Polluters Pay -Tax Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now
- Rumor Update of the Week: Hr 875
- Alert Update of the Week: Employee Free Choice Act Update
- Web Video of the Week: What's in Your Body Care Products?
- Sustainability Quote of the Week: Consumer Products Will Soon Be Labeled With 'Water Stewardship' Certification
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #166 3/19/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Join OCA's Delegation to Cuba & Lift the Travel Ban
- Related Web Video of the Week: Urban Food Growing in Cuba
- Organic Consumers Weekly Report from the US Capitol: NAIS & USDA
Secretary Vilsack
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Will the New HR875 Bill in Congress Outlaw Organic Farming?
- Food Safety News of the Week: Baby Formula Testing Project
- Sustainability News of the Week: Salt Water Elixir May Be New 'Miracle Liquid'
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Will the New HR875 Bill in Congress Outlaw Organic Farming?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #165 3/12/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Domestic Fair Trade Means Supporting Workers'
Rights
- Internet Myth of the Week: Congress To Pass Bill That Will Outlaw
Organic Farming?
- Consumer Tool of the Week: Pocket Guide for Carcinogens in Personal
Care Products
- Web Video of the Week: Faulty Drug Tests Trigger Arrests of Organic
Consumers & Producers
- Frankenstein Experiment of the Week: Avian Flu Virus Contamination
in Lab Nearly Sets Off Pandemic
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: OCA Supporter Who Lived Through the
Great Depression Offers Sustainability Advice
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #164 3/6/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- OCA Campaign Success Story of the Week: OCA's New Study Finds Greatly Reduced Carcinogens in Personal Care Products
- Alert Update of the Week: OCA & Grassroots Pressure on Obama and Vilsack Show Results
- More Good News: Campaigning of OCA & Allies Shifts USDA and Helps Hilda Solis Get Confirmed
- Nutrition News of the Week: Taking a Bite Out of Childhood Obesity
- Alert of the Week: Sign the Health Revolution Petition
- Sustainability News of the Week: OCA at Power Shift '09, Artists
for the Climate
- Related Web Videos of the Week: Wendell Berry speaks about Climate Change
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: We only have the next 10 days to
stop MANDATORY NAIS
- Genetic Engineering News of the Week: Study Shows Monsanto's GE Cotton is Killing the Soil
Issue #163 2/26/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: The Obama Administration's Stance on Frankenfoods
- Another OCA rBGH Victory - Dannon Will Dump Bovine Growth Hormone
- Utilizing the Stimulus Package: How to Retrofit Your Home and Receive
Big Tax Credits
- Web Videos of the Week: "Meet the Farmer" TV
- OCA at BioFach -- The World Organic Trade Fair
- Share Your Organic Vision for a U.S. National Organic Action Plan
- Featured OCA Blog of the Week: Thinking Globally
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #162 2/18/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert Update of the Week: National Animal Identification System
- Related Web Video of the Week
- Good News of the Week: European Countries Continue Ban on Genetically Engineered Crops
- Related Facts of the Week: Genetically Engineered Crops Creating More Pesticide Addiction in U.S
- Organic Transitions Essay of the Week: Getting Prepared for the Great Collapse
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back: Yoplait Dumps Monsanto?
- Web Forum Posting of the Week:...If It's Certified Organic, is It Organically Shipped?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #161 2/11/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Stop NAIS - Protect your right to farm and to
eat local food!
- GNA Alert of the Week: Good Jobs, Green Jobs
- Consumer Victory of the Week: Yoplait Goes rBGH-Free
- Valentines Tips of the Week: Turn Your Heart Green
- Web Video of the Week:The OCA Presents "Slammed" - A Valentines Video
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #160 2/4/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Why the Farming Crisis Has Everything to Do With the Economic Crisis
- Alert of the Week:...Tell Your Senators: 'Yes' to a Green Stimulus
- OCF Alert of the Week: Localizing School Food
- Sustainability News of the Week
- Web Video and Book of the Week: Agenda for a New Economy
- News of the Week: The Health Care Revolution Begins
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: A Consumer's Guide to Sustainable Sushi
- Organic Geek News of the Week: Do You Twitter?
Issue #159 1/28/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack: The Time for an Organic Future is Now
- Quote of the Week: Secrets of a Lunatic Farmer
- OCA Polar Bears Deliver Our Message at the Inauguration
- Health News of the Week: Mercury Found In Nearly Half of All Corn Syrup
- Web Forum Health Posting of the Week: Is Infant Formula Safe?
- Web Video of the Week: Growing Organic Food on the White House Lawn
- Headlines and Articles of the Week OCA at Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference
Issue #158 1/14/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert Update of the Week:Vilsack and Riddle Sustainability
- Alert: How Much Change Will There Be Inauguration Day?
- Encouraging Statistics of the Week: Farmers Markets Go 'Boom'
- Essay of the Week:The Urban Homestead
- Fair Trade Alert of the Week:...Tell Millstone Coffee: Unfair Trade
is Rotten!
- Web Video of the Week: "I'm Broke! Why Buy Organic?"
- Health News of the Week: Medicinal Plants Face Extinction
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #157 1/7/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Organic Newsflash: Draft Jim Riddle to USDA
- Alert Update of the Week:Stop Vilsack
- Studies of the Week: Studies Confirm Genetically Modified Crops Damage Human Health and the Environment
- Consumer Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Genetically Modified Ingredients
- Top Web Videos of 2008
- Top OCA Web Forum Topic of 2008
- Top Organic & Green Tips of 2008
- Headlines and Articles of the Week