Organic Bytes Archive 2012
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Issue #360 12/27/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- New Year’s Revolution: Connecting the Dots
- Tell the FDA: No Frankenfish!
- Four More Days. Can We Count on You?
- The Traitor Boycott: Honest Tea. Honestly?
- The Perennial Plate: An American Food Trip
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #359 12/13/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Is the NPA Working for You? Or Big Pharma and Big Biotech?
- Drugs In Our Meat – Shouldn't We Know?
- Stop the 'Monsanto Protection Act' and Other Dangerous Riders!
- The Traitor Boycott: Tell Naked Juice to Stop Lying
- Was the Prop 37 Election Stolen?
- Your Support is Making a Difference
- OCA Calls for Boycott of Woodstock Foods
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #358 12/6/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Dr. Oz Flip Flops as Mass Media Attacks Intensify
- Stop the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ and Other Dangerous Riders!
- Help Stop the Attacks on Organics
- Stop Agent Orange Corn! USDA Planning Pre-Christmas Approval for Spring 2013 Planting
- Keep the Traitor Boycott Going!
- Prop 37: The Countdown Continues
- Thanks, Kaiser Permanente!
- Fishycorn Goes on National GMO Education Tour
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #357 11/29/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Congress Is Back. And So Is Monsanto’s Sneak Attack.
- Punish the 'Natural' and Organic Traitor Brands: Download Your Boycott Guide
- The Spark and the Prairie Fire
- Prop 37: What the Ongoing Vote Count Tells Us
- Where Will the Food Come From?
- There’s Still Time! Join the Organic Agriculture Tour to Cuba Feb. 13-23, 2013
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #356 11/21/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- GMO Labeling Fight Moves to Washington State
- Keep the Pressure on the Organic and 'Natural' Traitor Brands: Call Their Customer Service Lines!
- Make 2013 the Beginning of the End for Monsanto!
- Stand With Walmart Strikers on Black Friday... and Other Ways to Have a Just and Sustainable Holiday
- Join Ronnie Cummins and OCA Staff on an Organic Agriculture Tour to Cuba Feb. 13-23, 2013
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #355 11/15/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Payback Time: Boycott the Organic and 'Natural' Traitor Brands that Helped Kill Prop 37
- It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over: Counting the Vote
- Help Us Keep this Movement Strong!
- Help Dr. Bronner's Fight Malaria in Eastern Ghana
- Join Ronnie Cummins and OCA Staff on an Organic Agriculture Tour to Cuba Feb. 13-23, 2013
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #354 11/9/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Prop 37: The Many Wins Behind the Loss
- Thank You Prop 37 Volunteers!
- San Juan County (Washington State) Passes GMO Ban
- Your Donations Have Built an Unstoppable Movement
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #353 11/1/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Do or Die in California: OCA's Final Plea
- Spread the Word: No More Stolen Elections
- Don't Let Monsanto's Millions Hijack Prop 37
- Unmasking the No on Prop 37 Lies and Dirty Tricks
- Help Spread the Truth about Prop 37 and GMO Labeling
- Little Bytes: Essential Reading for the Week
Issue #352 10/25/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- SOS: 12 Days Left in Epic California GMO Labeling Battle... We Need Your Help!
- Where Are the Yes on 37 TV Ads?
- Could a Prop 37 Win Get Obama’s Attention?
- If You Think Vampires Are Scary...
- Little Bytes
Issue #351 10/18/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Turning Point in the Food Fight of Our Lives: We Need Your Help More than Ever!
- Did They Really Say That? Debunking the NO on 37 Lies
- You Can Still Make a Difference!
- Hats Off to the YES on 37 Million Dollar Donors – and You!
- Oh Baby! What Are They Putting in Your Food?
- Little Bytes
Issue #350 10/11/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Essay of the Week: Prop 37 and the Future of Food by Michael Pollan
- California Update: Volunteers Needed on the Road to Victory
- Don't Let $35 Million Kill GMO Labeling in California!
- Hollywood Celebs Join Our Campaign in California: Spread the Message
- New Studies Highlight Increasing Dangers of Pesticides
- Food Babe to President Obama: Label GMOs!
- OCA Is on Pinterest!
- Little Bytes
Issue #349 10/4/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Prop 37 Ad Wars: Monsanto's $ vs. The Truth About GMOs
- Whole Foods — Stop the Greenwashing!
- Here’s What We’re Up Against – And Here’s How You Can Help
- Scientists Defend Study Showing Monsanto's GMOs & Pesticides Make Rats Grow Tumors
- YouTube Censors 'Organic Spies' Video Exposing GMOs at Whole Foods - Watch It At NaturalNews.com
- SignOn Petition Media Events Set for Oct. 11th
- Seeds of Doubt Conference – GMOS 'The Compelling Research'
- Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action
- Illegal GMO Vaccines in Organic
- There Are Alternatives to the Madness of GMO-Driven Industrial Agriculture!
- Natural Products Shouldn't Be GMO!
- Little Bytes
Issue #348 9/27/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- New Organic Spies Video: Whole Foods Hidden Camera GMO Sting - Bait Organic, Switch to GMO
- Missing Parents Alert!
- You Could Be Monsanto’s Worst Nightmare!
- You Against Monsanto
- Congress Leaves Its Work - And Monsanto's Evil Schemes - Until After the Election
- The So-Called 'Natural' Products Association Defends Its Stand Against Our Right to Know About GMOs
- Safeguarding Organic Standards
- Monsanto Makes Rats Grow Tumors; Are Humans Next?
- Request the Fair World Project Publication for Free Distribution
- Little Bytes
Issue #347 9/20/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Hot Off the Press: Rats Fed GMO Corn Die Young
- Things You Don't Want in Your Organic Food...
- Tell the NPA to Stop Putting the “Natural” Seal on Products that Contain GMOs!
- If You Eat Food, This Is Your Fight
- Whole Foods: Stand Against Forced Child Labor & Worker Rights Abuses
- Join the Seed Freedom Movement
- Monsanto Gets Shut Down!
- Little Bytes
Issue #346 9/13/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Dear Organic Consumer...
- Dr. Joseph Mercola: Why We Must Support Prop 37
Issue #345 9/6/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- No More RoundUp Ready GMO Crops!
- India Moves to Not Only Label GMO Foods, But to Ban GMO Crops as Well
- Your Donation Could Mean ‘YES’ for GMO Labeling!
- On Our Way to 200,000 Names . . . and Michelle Obama’s Desk!
- International Homesteading Education Month
- September 17th Global Week of Action Against Monsanto
- Stanford Junk Science Slanders Organic
- Little Bytes
Issue #344 8/30/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- 36,075 and Counting... Can We Count on You?
- Stop Bayer's New GMO Franken-Soy!
- 'Trust Me': Prop 37 Rolls Out its First TV Commercial
- Who’s More Powerful than Monsanto? You!
- Straight from the Farmer's Mouth: What Farmers Really Think About Monsanto and GMOs
- Join Ronnie Cummins and Leading Organic Activists at the National Heirloom Seed Exposition: September 11-13, in Santa Rosa, California
- Musically Modified
- Friends and Foes of Your Right to Know:
Cornucopia’s Chart Shines the Spotlight on Major Donors to the California Ballot Initiative - Little Bytes
Issue #343 8/23/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Boycott the Organic and 'Natural' Traitor Brands Whose Parent Companies Oppose Your Right to Know
- Stop Syngenta's Insecticidal 'Bt' Genetically Engineered Corn
- India Parliamentary Committee Slams Biotech
- Help Expose Monsanto's Lies: Support the OCA and the OCF
- Oregon Canola Update: Temporary Stay Granted on Canola Production in the Willamette Valley
- Organic Transitions: Greening and Cooling the Planet
- Tell Your Senators to Support the Hemp Bill!
- Little Bytes
Issue #342 8/16/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- The Biotech Goliath Roars: Monsanto’s Gang Dumps $25 Million into NO on 37 Campaign to Label GMOs
- What Does $25 Million Buy? Support for the OCA and the OCF!
- USDA Fast-Tracks GMO Crop Approval Process
- Millions and Millions... But Room for You!
- Hazards of GMOs: The Scientific Evidence Mounts
- Little Bytes
Issue #341 8/9/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Urgent Call to Action from Oregon!
- Say It Isn’t So: Organic Brands Backing the Campaign to Defeat GMO Labeling
- Back By Popular Demand! OCA's Very Own 'Old Monsanto Had a Farm' Video!
- September 17, 2012: Occupy Monsanto's Global Week of Action
- Volunteer - Ask Your Organic Retailer or Market to Endorse Prop 37, the California Ballot Initiative to Label GMO Foods!
- Mariel Hemingway Seeks Support for #StopMonsanto Film Project
- Little Bytes
Issue #340 8/2/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- An Open Letter to the Organic Community from Ronnie Cummins
- Why a Major Food Organization Is Teaming Up With Monsanto and Friends to Block Your Right to Know What's in Your Food
- Farm Bill 2012 Update
- It?s Time to Bring Down Old Man Santo!
- Host a Bitter Seeds Film Screening During the Occupy Monsanto Sept. 17 Week of Action!
- Fair World Project Update
- Yes On 37 Twitter Party!
- Little Bytes
Issue #339 7/19/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Who Supports Truth-in-Labeling on GMOs?
- Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is
- The Enemies of Our GMO Right-to-Know
- The Power of… YOU!
- GMO Free USA Launches! Campaign #1: Boycott Kellogg's!
- Who Owns Organics?: A Look at the Ownership Structure of Our Industry
- Dow's Agent Orange Soy Among New Fast-Tracked GMOs
- The Yes On 37 Right to Know Campaign Needs You!
Issue #338 7/19/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Monsanto Nation: The Worst Farm Bill in History
- RT America Features the Monsanto Rider
- Why Americans Want Labels on Genetically Engineered Foods, by Ronnie Cummins
- Don’t Just Imagine It… Invest in It!
- Vote for Monsanto!
- Kickstarter Film Project of the Week: Toxic Profits
- Stop the Michigan Threat Against Heritage Breeds
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #337 7/12/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- New Monsanto Rider in the House Farm Bill
- A Bright Future in Fundraising and Education?
- Boycott Scotts and Monsanto: Get GMOs & Pesticides Off Your Lawn!
- SOS: The New York Times on Organic Standards
- Right to Know Bloggers Needed!
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #336 7/5/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Stop Monsanto's Sneak Attack!
- Who's Monsanto's Best Friend in Congress?
- Worth Fighting For? Your Donation Keeps the Fight Alive
- Health Care Decision a Death Blow to Single-Payer
- Get Antibiotic Residues Out of the U.S Food Supply!
- Democracy at Risk in Washington State
- Stop Monsanto from Poisoning Hawai'i
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #335 6/28/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Action Alerts from the Organic Consumers Fund, OCA’s Allied Lobbying Organization
- Monsanto's Sneak Attack on Organic and Non-GMO Farmers
- Help Us Keep the Pressure On
- Message from Rio: Unite and Fight for Survival
- Farm Bill GMO Labeling Amendment Update
- Debrief from the Sidewalk Session at the BIO International Conference
- Monsanto Exposé: From Agent Orange to Colony Collapse Disorder
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #334 6/21/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Why Genetically Engineered Food is Dangerous: New Report
- The Senate Has Voted...
- Invest in a Healthier Future: Help Spread the Truth About Corporate Manipulation of Science
- India to Label GMOs
- New AMA Policy on GMOs Stops Short of Protecting Consumer Health
- OCA at Rio+20
- Buyer Beware: Corporate Front Groups Come Out in Force to Sink GMO Labeling Initiative
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #333 6/14/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Urgent Action Needed on Farm Bill Votes
- California GMO Labeling Initiative Gains Ballot Status
- One Step Closer to GMO Labeling – Let’s Keep the Momentum Going!
- Force Food Companies to Reveal GMOs: Join GMO Free USA
- Films of the Week
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #332 6/7/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Join Michael Pollan and Organic Leaders to Urge Congress to Fix Farm Bill
- Stop Agent Orange Corn & Soy
- Help Create a Healthier World for Kids Like These
- Occupy Monsanto Action in Boston
- Stonyfield Farm & Organic Valley
- Celebrate Hemp History Week
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #331 5/31/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Safeguarding Organic Standards (SOS) - A Report from the May 2012 National Organic Standards Board Meeting
- OCA and the California Ballot Initiative Featured in Front Page New York Times Article
- You Did It! Money Bomb Campaign Raises First $2 Million for the California Right to Know GMO Labeling Campaign!
- Senate Says 'Frankenfish' Don't Need More Testing
- Most Creative Anti-Labeling Message Ever: Buying Organic Leads to Unethical Behavior
- Last Call at the Oasis
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #330 5/24/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Safeguarding Organic Standards (SOS)
- Obama and Rich Nations Leave Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
- Bombing Monsanto: We’re Closing in on Our Goal! Your Donation Could Put Us Over the Top!
- Occupy Monsanto Week Begins September 17
- Action Alert: Tell Starbucks and Green Mountain to Support Small Fair Trade Farmers
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #328 5/10/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Beekeepers Win Ban on Monsanto's GMOs in Poland
- Why Organics are Expensive & Monsanto's GMOs are Cheap
- Money Bomb Momentum Builds with $1 Million Matching Gift! We Can Do This!
- Tell Kellogg's You're Boycotting Kashi!
- Monsanto's Minions in California
- Connecticut Correction and Update
- Right to Know Movement Heads to Oregon
- Fair World Project Announcement: Celebrate "World Fair Trade Day" With Fair Trade Sweepstakes to Sri Lanka
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #327 5/3/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Outrage!
- Support Labeling in California! Let's Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto!
- Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #326 4/26/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Monsanto's Foxes Guarding the Hen House
- No Labels or Safety-Testing of Frankenfoods
- Pink Slime
- Force-Feeding Hormones and Antibiotics to Animals: A Biological Time Bomb
- Vilsack and Taylor Must Go!
- Support the Organic Revolution!
- Mad Cow USA
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #325 4/19/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Vermont Surrenders
- Monsanto's Enforcers
- Save the Bees! Ban Bayer's Poison Pesticide!
- Support the Organic Revolution! Stop the Biotech Bullies!
- Genetic Crimes Unit to Protest Monsanto/FDA Enforcer Michael Taylor at the Food Safety Summit
- The Most Evil Chemical Company and the Second Richest Person in the World
- Control the Corporation!
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #324 4/12/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Urgent National Action Alert!
- Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives By Ronnie Cummins
- EPA Rejects Ban on Dioxin-Tainted "Agent Orange" Herbicide
- Just One of Monsanto's Crimes, Or Why We Can't Trust the EPA
- Support BioDemocracy Not Biotechnology!
- Local Food Under Attack! Defend Community Self-Governance!
- Another Crazy State Law Is One More Reason to Support Local Food Sovereignty
- BioDemocracy: Using Local Sovereignty to Protect Ourselves From Corporations and Corporate-Controlled State and Federal Governments
- If the Author of Food Politics Has Ties to Monsanto, Shouldn't Readers Know?
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #323 4/5/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont
- OCA and Allies Join National Occupation of Washington, D.C.
- Stop Monsanto's Biotech Bullying
- Turn Here Sweet Corn by Atina Diffley
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #322 3/29/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Monsanto: From a Child's Perspective
- Join OCA Political Director Alexis Baden-Mayer at the Control the Corporation Conference
- Thanks to you . . . Monsanto knows.
- Monsanto Voted Biggest "Corporate Fool" with the Worst Business Practices for 2012
- Fair World Project Announcement: Celebrate "World Fair Trade Day" With Fair Trade Sweepstakes to Sri Lanka
- Breaking News From The Vermont State House!
- Symphony of the Soil
- Vanishing of the Bees for Kids & Educators
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #321 3/22/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Occupy the EPA!
- Reports from Last Week's Shut Down Monsanto Actions
- Help Us Reach Our Goal Before March 27!
- Ronnie Cummins Exposes Big Biotech's Shameless Attempt to Brainwash Kids
- Update: The Campaign to Label GMOs
- Hunger Strike Against Monsanto
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #320 3/15/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- March 16, 2012 Global Actions: Occupy Monsanto
- Scientists Seek EPA Action on Monsanto Crop Failure
- Bizarre Quote of the Week: Monsanto Supports GMO Labeling?
- Petition to Get Monsanto's Mole, Michael Taylor, Out of the FDA Makes National News
- Dr. Oz Exposes Hazards of Genetically Engineered Food
- Special Fundraising Campaign: GMO Labeling
- Occupy Monsanto "Genetic Crimes Unit" Investigates Natural Products Expo West
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #319 3/8/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Global Days of Action Against Monsanto
- Stop GMO Salmon and Save Wild Salmon!
- Global Days of Action to Shut Down Monsanto March 16 & 17
- Updates on the Right-to-Know Campaign to Label GMOs
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #318 3/1/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Stop the Biotech Bullies!
- Monsanto's Minions Attack OCA in California: Lies & Censorship at the Sacramento Bee
- Op-Ed of the Week: "America's Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic: Junk Food Kills"
by Ronnie Cummins - Two More Months to Stop Dow's Agent Orange Frankencorn
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #317 2/23/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Monsanto's Minions Attack
- CA Update
- Amazing Anti-GMO Work in Hawaii!
- The Movement to Label GMOs Is Gaining Momentum Nationwide
- Heard From Whole Foods Recently?
- Occupy Our Food Supply: Take Action
- Stop Agent Orange Frankencorn!
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #316 2/16/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Food Fight Spreads Across the Nation
- Label GMOs: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington, Congress, and the FDA
- Just Label It! Update
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #315 2/9/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Whole Fraud: Exposing the Myth of So-Called Natural Foods
- Ask Congress to Tell FDA to Label GMOs
- The California Label GMOs 2012 Ballot Initiative
- State Legislation to Label GMOs
- OCCUPY MONSANTO! Secret Video Shows CEO Hugh Grant's Response to GMO Labeling
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #314 2/2/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Ten Ways Monsanto and Big Ag Are Trying to Kill You - And the Planet
- Urgent Action Needed to Label GMOs in Your State!
- Organic Consumers Association Occupies Monsanto Headquarters
- Fair World Project Alert: Fair Trade Progress
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #313 1/26/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Beware of Agent Orange Burgers
- Cornucopia Institute Slams Industry and USDA for Violating Organic Standards
- Organic Consumers Association Occupies Monsanto Headquarters
- New Movie Queen of the Sun Wonders: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
- Attention Programmers!
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #312 1/19/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- January 24: Join the OCA Protest at Monsanto's Annual Shareholders Meeting
- The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act
- Support the OCA and the OCF
- Millions Against Monsanto Campaign Update
- Baby Food Update
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #311 1/12/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- Can You Imagine a World Without Antibiotics?
- Urgent Action Needed on the State Level
- Make Monsanto Pay!
January 24: Protest at Monsanto's Annual Shareholders Meeting - Featured Essay of the Week
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
Issue #310 1/5/12 - HTML - PDF Version
- USDA Out-of-Control!
- USDA Madness #1: Government Poised to Approve Agent Orange Corn
- USDA Madness #2: USDA Approves Monsanto's Bogus "Drought-Tolerant" GMO Corn
- USDA Madness #3: Genetically Engineered Nutraceuticals in Organic Baby Food
- Featured Essay of the Week
- Little Bytes: Top Stories of the Week
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