Organic Bytes Archive 2010
Environmental, Consumer and Health News Tidbits
With an Edge!
A
biweekly email publication from the
Organic Consumers Association
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ORGANIC BYTES 2010:
Issue #257 12/30/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- 1800 Days: Organic Solutions to the Global Crisis, A Year-End Message from the OCA Director
- Holiday Appeal: Support the Great Organic Transition
- Alert of the Week: Stop GMO Contamination of Organic!
- Videos of the Week: Videos to Inspire Your New Year's Resolutions
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Issue #256 12/22/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: USDA Secretary Vilsack on the "Uneasy Coexistence" of Organic and GMOs
- Essay of the Week: Coexistence with Monsanto: Hell No! by Ronnie Cummins
- Holiday Appeal: Help OCA Mobilize Millions Against Monsanto
- Three Steps Necessary to Stop GMO Contamination of Organics
- Alert of the Week: Stop GMO Contamination of Organic!
- Video of the Week: The Secret Life of Beef
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Issue #255 12/16/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Organic to Feed the World, Empower the Poor, Mitigate Climate Change, & Preserve Biodiversity
- Holiday Appeal: Cultivating and Expanding Organic
- OCA's Strategic 2011 Campaigns:
- Millions Against Monsanto: Taking Down the World's Biotech Bully Through Truth-in-Labeling
- Save Organic Standards: Raising "USDA Organic" Standards on Beef and Poultry
- Zero Waste/Maximum Compost: Recycling Urban America's Food Waste to Fuel the Organic Revolution
- Video of the Week: Dive! Dumpster Diving Against Waste
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Issue #254 12/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Bill McKibben: Climate Summit Like a Family Reunion Aboard the Titanic
- Letters From Cancun:
- Ronnie Cummins: The Road Ahead: Steps Toward a Global Uprising
- Alexis Baden-Mayer: Working Fast to Slow Climate Change, Farmers Inspire Hope and Action
- Alert of the Week: Stop Factory Farmed Poultry in Organic
- Alert Updates:
- Stop Big Ag's Food Safety Bill!
- Take Action to Stop Organic Cosmetics Fraud by December 10
- Video of the Week: COP 16's March for Life & Climate Justice
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Issue #253 12/2/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: The High Technology of Plants
- Letters From Cancun:
- Ronnie Cummins: The Road to Cancun: Good News on the Climate Crisis
- Alexis Baden-Mayer: Cancun Can't Last as Long as Mangroves, Can Humanity Outlive Cancun?
- Alert Updates:
- Victory! Food Safety Bill Passes Senate, But Will Not Become Law
- Victory! Court Orders Destruction of Monsanto's Sugar Beets - Take Action By Dec. 6
- Stop Frankenfish! Federal Scientists Fear FDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
- Reminder! Take Action to Stop Organic Cosmetics Fraud by December 10
- Video of the Week: The Food & Climate Connection
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Issue #252 11/24/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Indigenous Perspectives on Thanksgiving
- Alerts of the Week:
- Stop Big Ag's Food Safety Bill
- Stop GM Sugar Beets! Take Action Before December 6th
- Featured Action of the Week: Vermonters Protest S.510
- Video of the Week: Farmageddon, the Movie
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Issue #251 11/18/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: No Place for GMO
- Alert of the Week: Stop Organic Sham-Poo! Take Action Before Dec. 10
- Action of the Week: 50% Off Your First Taste of GMO Salmon
- Video of the Week: Buy Nothing, Value Everything
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Issue #250 11/11/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: End the War Against the Earth
- Alert of the Week: Something Fishy is Going On!
- Article of the Week: The 10 Freakiest Things About Frankenfish
- Video of the Week: Farmed Salmon Exposed
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Issue #249 11/4/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: China's Organic Revolution
- After the Elections:
- 539 Candidates Answer Organic Consumers GMO Survey
- Anti-Frankenfish Candidates Win Races
- Monsanto-Funded Candidates Win Races
- Video of the Week: Just Say No to GMO
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Issue #248 10/29/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: US Should Follow Europe and Put the Brakes on Nanotech Food and Other Products
- Victories and Actions of the Week
- Report from the NOSB Meeting
- Study of the Week: Nanoparticles Worm Their Way into the Food Web
- Join the OCA Delegation to the Cancun Climate Summit
- Videos of the Week
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Issue #247 10/21/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote and Essay of the Week: Twelve Years of Safeguarding Organic Standards
- Alert of the Week: SOS! Save Organic Standards!
- Join the OCA Delegation to the Cancun Climate Summit
- Video of the Week: Scrambled Eggs
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Issue #246 10/14/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Fair Trade and Organic Farming
- OCA's New Fair World Project
- Practicing and Certifying Fair Trade: The Challenges
- Action of the Week: Tell Your State Government to Practice Fair Trade
- Join the OCA Climate Justice Delegation to Cancun
- Video of the Week: Message from Earth
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Issue #245 10/7/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Essay of the Week: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival
- Action of the Week: GMOs and the 2010 Elections
- Why We Need Labels
- Victory of the Week: Court Rules GMO-Free Milk and Dairy Products Can Be Labeled as Such
- 10/10/10 Victory: White House Goes Solar!
- Video of the Week: Sumo Wrestlers Biking to Practice
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Issue #244 9/30/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: The Cloning Company vs. OCA
- Alerts of the Week:
- Organic Standards Alert: Beer, Eggs, Wine
- Keeping Nano Out
- 10 Freakiest Things About Frankenfish
- Why Who Fishes Matters
- Ready for 10/10/10?
- Video of the Week: What's Wrong With Our Food System
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Issue #243 9/23/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "Government's Menu: More Transgenic Fish, Less Wild Fish"
- Alert of the Week: Stop Genetically Engineered Fish!
- Take Action on Climate Change
- Video of the Week: Stop Frankenfish!
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Issue #242 9/16/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "A Challenge to All Gardeners"
- Alerts of the Week:
- Today - National Day of Action Against Frankenfish
- Organic Wine Standards Under Attack!
- Food Safety Legislation Must Protect Family Farms & Organic!
- Announcing the Fair World Project
- Victory of the Week: Court Will Hear Consumers' Claims of Organic Milk Fraud
- Take Action on Climate Change
- Video of the Week: Can Organics Stop Climate Change?
- Web Site of the Week: TheProblemWithPalmOil.org
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Issue #241 9/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "Defend the Soil With Your Life!"
- Alert of the Week: Stop the Frankenfish!
- Victory of the Week: Co-op Grocers Coming Clean on Organic Cosmetics
- Take Action on the Climate Crisis in Your Local Community and in Cancun
- Movies of the Week
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Issue #240 9/2/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- 8 Reasons Why We Need Organic
- Alert of the Week: Factory Farms, Eggs & Food Safety
- Please Join Us: Climate Actions 10-10-10 and Cancun
- Help America Go Organic
- Movies of the Week
- Book of the Week
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Issue #239 8/26/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Four Paths to Organic Health
- Organic - President's Cancer Panel: Eat Organic
- Farm Subsidies - Why Is It So Expensive to Eat Healthy?
- Food Labels - "Warning: Eat This, You'll Get Fat & Sick"
- Junk Food Taxes - Scientists & USDA Say Taxes Can Cut Obesity
- Thanks for Your Support!
- Wake Up America: Join the OCA Delegation to the World Climate Summit in Cancun
- Video of the Week: Transition Cities
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Issue #238 8/19/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Kellogg's Loves Genetically Engineered Foods
- Alert of the Week: Stop Monsanto's FrankenSugar
- Alert Update: Post "Panic" Photos on Facebook
- Cartoon of the Week: GMO Canola Escapes
- Video of the Week: Pesticides and ADHD
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Issue #237 8/12/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Top 10 Reasons to Use Organic Body Care and Cosmetics Products
- Panic! This Product Is Not Organic!
- Tell USDA to Stop Organic Fraud!
- Ask Stores to Adopt Organic Body Care and Cosmetics Integrity Policies
- Boycott the Fake Organic Brands
Issue #236 8/5/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Urgent Message from Ronnie Cummins, OCA Director
- Challenging the Biotech Bullying of the Infamous Chemical Company
- Millions Against Monsanto Headquarters
- How to Spread the Word
- Take Action on Current Alerts
- Read the Blog
Issue #235 7/29/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "The future of life on this planet may depend on what we eat."
- Alerts of the Week:
- Sign the "Food Agenda 2020" Petition
- Ask Alice Waters to Stand Up Against Toxic Sludge
- Stop Antibiotic Abuse
- Video of the Week: Cooking Up a Story - Diet for a Hot Planet
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Issue #234 7/22/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "Every year 220,000 people are killed by pesticides worldwide"
- Alert of the Week: Top 10 Reasons to Label Genetically Engineered Food
- Videos of the Week:
- The Story of Cosmetics
- Pig Business
- FreeDocumentaries.org
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Issue #233 7/16/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- History Lesson of the Week: How Monsanto Got Their Permit to Poison Us
- Alert of the Week: Tell Obama's FDA to Regulate, Not Cheerlead for Genetically Modified Organisms
- Resource of the Week: Four Simple Ways to Avoid GMOs
- Millions Against Monsanto: Vote Monsanto into the Corporate Hall of Shame
- Victory of the Week: OCA's Coming Clean Campaign in the New York Times
- Videos of the Week
- Radio of the Week: Ronnie Cummins on GE Salmon
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Issue #232 7/8/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: UN Says Organic Farming Can Feed World, Save Climate
- Alert of the Week: Dupont Dame Follows Monsanto Men Into Obama Administration
- Scandal of the Week: Ethanol and Animal Feed from Monsanto's GE Corn Are the Biggest Culprits in Gulf Dead Zone
- Video of the Week: Toxic Chemical Lobby - Exclusive Leaked Footage
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Issue #231 7/1/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "If you put a label on genetically engineered food..."
- Puzzle of the Week: Monsanto Says What? "Buy Organic to Avoid GMOs"
- Alert of the Week: Stop Frankenfish!
- Video of the Week: Haiti - The Aid Dilemma
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Issue #230 6/24/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Dennis Kucinich on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
- Alert of the Week: Ask Your Reps to Sponsor Bill to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
- Are Your Federal Representatives Monsanto's Minions?
- Video of the Week: GMOs - Hidden Ingredient
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Issue #229 6/17/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Monsanto's RoundUp "May Have Dire Consequences for Agriculture"
- Alerts of the Week:
- Gen-M (Generation Monsanto): Why We Need Labels on GM Foods
- Congressman Conaway Attacks Organic Certification Cost-Share Program
- Videos of the Week: "Store Wars" and the GM Watch Video Collection
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Issue #228 6/10/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Whole Foods Puts Organic Integrity in the Health & Beauty Aisle
- Victory of the Week: Whole Foods 1st Retail Chain to Act on Demands of OCA's Coming Clean Campaign
- Alerts of the Week:
- Paper Companies Plant Genetically Engineered Trees
- Stop Methyl Iodide
- From Copenhagan and Cochabamba to Cancun - Join the OCA at the historic COP 16 Climate Conference
- Video & Book of the Week: Diet for a Hot Planet
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Issue #227 6/3/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Article of the Week: Change the World, Go Organic
- Alert of the Week: Demand Organic in Climate Change Bill
- Haiti Alert Update: Seeds, Democracy, and Farmers Under Siege
- End the Travel Ban on Cuba - Contact Your Representative Today!
- Monsanto and the Threat of Geoengineering
- Video of the Week: The Dark Side of Chocolate
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Issue #226 5/28/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: GM Foods Cause Sterility
- Alert of the Week: Monsanto & the Supreme Court
- Video of the Week: Hammy the Hamster Goes Organic
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Issue #225 5/21/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Monsanto, Haiti's "New Earthquake"
- Alert of the Week: Monsanto's Poison Pills for Haiti - Take Action in Solidarity with Haitian Farmers Who Vow to Burn Monsanto's Fungicide-Coated Seeds
- Video of the Week: Monsanto Plants Shut Down by Activists in Europe
- June 22-26, 2010: US Social Forum in Detroit
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Issue #224 5/14/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "Eat Organic, Ward off Cancer"
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards! National Organic Standard Board Votes for Factory-Farmed "Organic" Chicken & Eggs, Delays Action on Nanotechnology, and Approves List of Non-Organic and Synthetics for Use in Organic
- National Organic Program Refuses to Curb Organic Fraud in the Health & Beauty Aisle
- The Good News: GMO Vaccines Aren't Allowed in Organic -- Yet
- Video of the Week: The Boston Teat Party, a Raw Milk Drink-In -- With Cow!
- May 17 - 23, 2010 is Hemp History Week
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Issue #223 5/6/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: "The single largest threat to production agriculture."
- Alerts of the Week:
- Healthy Raw Milk: OCA Takes a Stand in Massachusetts
- Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs
- Video of the Week: The Difference Between Cage-Free Organic & Pasture-Raised Organic Eggs
- Saturday May 8 is World Fair Trade Day
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Issue #222 4/29/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: UFW on Arizona Law Targeting Latino Immigrants and Workers
- Mad Science: Climate Chaos and Geoengineering
- Supreme Court Sees No Problem with Genetic Pollution from Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- Alert of the Week: OCA Joins the Call for a Consumer and Tourist Boycott of Arizona
- Help the OCA Get 35,000 Facebook Fans!
- Survey: Do You Support the Rights of Mother Earth?
- Video of the Week: Bolivia's Answer to the UN Climate Summit
- OCA on the Radio: Ronnie Cummins on the Global Climate Crisis
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Issue #221 4/22/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Cochabamba Climate Summit - "Change the System Not the Climate"
- Action Alert of the Week: Stop Factory Farm Production of "Organic" Chicken & Eggs
- More Current Alerts:
- Keep Nanotech Ingredients Out of Organic Food!
- Tell Your Senators: No Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops in Foreign
Aid! - Still Time to Save Local & Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill
- Resource of the Week: Updated Leaflet on Monsanto and GMOs
- OCA on the Radio: OCA's Campaign Against Using Toxic Sludge to Grow Food
- Video of the Week: Democracy Now! Covers the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change
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Issue #220 4/15/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: USDA Soil Scientist - "We Might Be Setting Up a Huge Problem."
- Take Action:
- Keep Nanotech Ingredients Out of Organic Food!
- Tell Your Senators: No GE Crops in Foreign Aid!
- Still Time to Save Local & Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill
- Video of the Week: "Food Inc." on PBS - Have a House Party!
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Issue #219 4/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Walt Whitman: "This Compost"
- Take Action:
- Rescue Local/Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill!
- Don't Let USDA Okay 4-Month Factory Farm Confinement for "Organic" Beef
- Hug a Farmer! April 17: La Via Campesina Call to Action
- Essay of the Week: "Is This Factory Farming's Tobacco Moment?" by Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins
- Video of the Week: OCA Exposes 'Organic Cheaters'
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Issue #218 4/5/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote: Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times..."
- Victory: Whole Foods Takes a Stand Against Faux Organic Claim
- Victory: FDA Warns Companies to Certify Organic Claim to USDA Standards
- Victory: JASON Drops False "Pure, Natural & Organic" Claim, Kiss My Face No Longer "Obsessively Organic"
- Take Action: Tell the Organic Fakers to Drop False Claims on Cosmetics
- Ask Legendary Chef Alice Waters to Oppose Growing Food in Toxic Sludge!
- Obama Recess-Appoints Biotech Lobbyist
- Video: "Food For Thought: Understanding Labels"
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Issue #217 3/25/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Paul Hawken: "The future belongs to those who understand..."
- Take Action:
- Urge USDA to Step Up Enforcement of Organic Standards
- Tell Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to Remove Himself from Supreme Court GMO Sugar Beet Case
- OCA in the News:
- Corporate Crime Reporter: OCA Exposes Intimidation Tactics of the 'Organic Mafia'
- Whole Foods Market and UNFI
- Ronnie Cummins on Planet Erstwild Radio
- Video of the Week: The Greed of Feed
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Issue #216 3/18/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action:
- Ask Whole Foods and UNFI to Sign the Sustainable Food Pledge
- Stop Genetically Engineered Alfalfa!
- Digging Deeper Into San Francisco's Sludge
- Join "Sham-Poo" Actions to Stop Organic Fraud
- OCA in the News:
- Sustainable Supply Chain Coalition Asks Whole Foods to Support Domestic Fair Trade and Increase Organic
- Ronnie Cummins on the Radio: "OCA Challenges Whole Foods Market to 'Walk the Talk'"
- Green Patriot and OCA Expose 1,4 Dioxane in Household Products
- Video of the Week: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor
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Issue #215 3/9/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Edward Bernays: "Those who manipulate the unseen..."
- Take Action:
- Protest "Sham-Poo," Tell USDA and Faux Organic Cosmetic Companies to Come Clean
- Press Whole Foods Market and United Natural Foods Inc. to Sign the Sustainable Food Pledge
- Action Updates:
- More Than 200,000 Consumers, Farmers, and Organic Businesses Call for USDA to Prohibit Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- America's Greenest Mayor: "Let Them Eat Toxic Sludge!"
- Procter & Gamble Agrees to Reformulate Body Products After OCA and Allies Expose Toxic Contaminant
Issue #214 2/25/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Erich Fromm
- Take Action:
- Ninety-Eight Organizations Oppose Senate Confirmation of Pesticide and Biotech Lobbyist Islam Siddiqui for USTR Agriculture Negotiator
- March 3 Deadline: Obama USDA Poised to Take Away Our Right to GMO-Free Food
- Support San Francisco Garden Activists Returning Toxic Sludge to City Officials Who Called It "Organic Compost"
- Action Update: Thank You From the Cornucopia Institute
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Issue #213 2/18/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week: New Organic Regulations Ban Factory-Style Dairy Feedlots
- Take Action
- Obama USDA Poised to Approve Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- Tell San Francisco to Stop Giving Away or Selling Toxic Sludge Under the Guise of "Organic Compost" or Fertilizer
- Vignette of the Week: Eating Like Our Parents Left for the Weekend by Will Allen
- Video of the Week: Vandana Shiva on Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide
Issue #212 2/11/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week:� USDA Drops "Big Brother" National Animal ID Program
- Take Action
- Urgent Action Needed to Save Small Fishing Families
- John McCain Files New Bill Attacking Your Access to Vitamin Supplements
- Featured Essay of the Week: Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century By Ronnie Cummins and Will Allen
- Video of the Week: The Heat Is Online: Ross Gelbspan
- Alert Update of the Week: Tell San Francisco to Stop Spreading Sewage Sludge and Calling It "Organic Fertilizer"
Issue #211 2/4/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action: Tell the "World's Greenest Mayor" to Stop Poisoning His City with Toxic Sludge!
- Horror Story of the Week
- The People Who Want You to Believe Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
- Recommended Reading: The Big Necessity
- Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Child Slavery on Valentine's Day
Issue #210 1/26/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action
- Don't Let the White House Weaken Organic Dairy Standards
- Help OCA Investigate Whole Foods' "Whole Paycheck" Pricing
- Campaign Updates
- The Worst Faux Organic Cosmetic Brands Revealed
- Teamsters Urge United Natural Foods, Inc. to Uphold Workers' Rights
- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Stepping Down As Chairman of the Board
- Featured Article: Who's Trying to Kill Organic? A Revolutionary Movement Undermined by Its "So-Called Friends," Feedlot "Organic" Dairies and Whole Foods
Issue #209 1/21/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Take Action
- Stop Monsanto's Genetically Modified Alfalfa!
- Senator Puts a Hold on Obama's Pro-Pesticide Nominee Siddiqui
- Action Updates
- Nearly 9,000 OCA Members Tell DOJ to Break Monsanto's Monopoly
- Pro-Monsanto Rajiv Shah Confirmed as USAID Director
- Monsanto in the News
- Organic Empowerment 2010: Taking Action Locally
- Strategic Local Campaign of the Week: #5 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost
Issue #208 1/15/10 - HTML - PDF Version
- Special Alert: Haiti
- Toxins in Your "Organic" Health & Beauty Products
- Campaign of the Week: #4 - Organic, Fair Trade & Union Made Procurement
- Preview: Next Week's Special Monsanto Issue
Issue #207 1/7/10 - HTML - PDF Version
In This Issue:
- Ten Strategic Local Campaigns
- 1. Locally Grown Organic Food
- 2. Local Currencies and Community Banks
- 3. Health Care Access, Including Natural and Integrative Medicine