Oats are good for you, but not when they’re drenched with carcinogenic, gut-microbiome-destroying weed killers like Monsanto (now Bayer)’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.

Oats aren’t “Roundup Ready” (genetically engineered to soak-up Roundup), but spraying oats with Roundup dries them out and makes them easier to harvest.

Pepsi-Co’s Quaker Oats have the highest Roundup residues.

Monsanto lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the acceptable levels of glyphosate residues on our food from 0.1 parts per million in 1993 to 30 parts per million today.

Our representatives in Congress, which Bayer spends $7.5 million lobbying every year, are asleep at the wheel. No bill to ban Roundup has ever been introduced in Congress and the only bill to address the pre-harvest spraying of Roundup hasn’t been reintroduced since it was first proposed in 2019.

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TAKE ACTION: Boycott PepsiCo’s Pesticide-Drenched Quaker Oats & Tell Congress to Ban Bayer’s Toxic Roundup Weed Killer

By Candice Gaukel Andrews, Nature & Wildlife:

“We know that spending time in nature is good for us, proven by hundreds—perhaps thousands—of scientific studies. But most of what we know about nature and its benefits have come from research focused on how seeing nature affects us. Now, however, an international team of scientists is hoping to shed light on how what we smell in natural settings impacts our health and well-being.

Plants emit odors for a variety of reasons, such as to attract pollinators, to communicate with each other, to repel harmful herbivores and insects, or to respond to changing environmental conditions. But in this time of great biodiversity loss, is the emission of these scents waning? The answer will probably surprise you.”

Read how the smells in nature are being harnessed to help restore degraded ecosystems

Maki Yazawa, Well+Good:

“We’re well aware that adopting a plant-based diet can offer many health benefits. But did you know that it’s also linked to boosting your longevity? Hand over the fruits and veggies, we say.

According to Dan Buettner, a National Geographic reporter, longevity expert, and founder of the Blue Zones, there’s no doubt that fruits and vegetables play a vital role in the diet of many of the longest-living people in the world. As such, Buettner recommends that folks aim to consume a 95 percent plant-based diet.

Today, we’re honing in on the best fruits for longevity with the help of Buettner’s extensive research on the topic. But first, a word to the wise: All fruits are considered nutrient-dense, meaning they’re packed with key nutrients that can help boost your overall health and when consumed long-term, your longevity. The ones Buettner’s outlined for us here are simply the most common in the five Blue Zones regions (meaning calling these eight delicious options the ‘healthiest fruits of all’ would be far beyond superlative).”


Check out the top eight fruits consumed in the Blue Zones

By Prof. Dr. André Leu, Regeneration International Director:

The Regeneration International Academy, in partnership with the South Seas University, has held two online courses on regenerative agriculture.

This semester, we are expanding the course to include agroecology and organic agriculture with the title of AROA (Agroecology, Regenerative, and Organic Agriculture).

Bringing these three major global movements together as complementary systems is essential. Very importantly, this is a certificate course from an accredited degree-granting university. We plan to have the organic regenerative agriculture faculty offer a range of courses by recognized experts in regenerative, organic, and agroecological practices and systems in the following semesters.

From my perspective as a long-term organic farmer and educator, providing high-quality, accessible, and affordable education is the key to scaling up our nature-based regenerative systems. This is essential to break degenerative industrial agriculture’s near monopoly control on education. SSU gives us a critically important opportunity to do this.


Learn about this unique opportunity to take this innovative course taught by Prof. Dr. André Leu

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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“STORY-AT-A-GLANCE

* Plant-based ultra-processed foods, including veggie burgers and meatless nuggets, increase the risk of cardiovascular disease

* Eating plant-based ultra-processed foods was linked with a 5% increased risk of cardiovascular disease and a 12% higher risk of cardiovascular disease mortality

* Vegans and vegetarians often consume more ultra-processed foods than meat eaters, especially “industrial plant-sourced meat and dairy substitutes”

* The health risks of these unnatural foods come not only from the highly processed ingredients they contain but also from the additives and contaminants formed during processing

* Plant-based ultra-processed foods are typically loaded with seed oils high in the toxic omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid”

Read about this study by the University of São Paulo and Imperial College London that included data from 126,842 people who answered questions about their diets

Ban New GMO Frankenfoods Made with Synthetic Biology (a.k.a “Precision Fermentation”)

Dharna Noor and Lois Beckett write for The Guardian:

“Hawaii officials have announced a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s department of transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.

‘You have a constitutional right to fight for life-sustaining climate policy and you have mobilized our people in this case,’ Josh Green, the Hawaii governor, told the 13 young plaintiffs in the case, saying he hoped the settlement would inspire similar action across the country.

Under what legal experts called a ‘historic’ settlement, announced on Thursday, Hawaii officials will release a roadmap “to fully decarbonize the state’s transportation systems, taking all actions necessary to achieve zero emissions no later than 2045 for ground transportation, sea and inter-island air transportation’. ”

Read more about this groundbreaking victory

We believe that the public is increasingly skeptical of high-tech, genetically engineered “solutions” and is ready to listen, more than ever, about the importance of healthy organic food and natural health remedies and practices.

Unfortunately, party politicians, global technocrats, and Big Pharma seem hell-bent on continuing their fear-mongering, attempting to increase their power and wealth, doubling down on their already authoritarian mandates.

Now is the time for resisting illegitimate authority, and picking up the pieces of our shattered Democracy. Now is the time to join together, left and right, urban and rural, under the banner of organic and regenerative food, farming, and land use, natural health, and constitutionally-based participatory democracy.

Our goals for 2024 and beyond are clear: shut down the “dual-use” bioweapons labs. Stop the weaponizing of pathogens, and make organic food-as-medicine, and natural health practices and remedies, the norm, not just the alternative.

We at OCA want to thank you for your loyalty, support, and engagement.

Moving forward we will continue our decades-long campaign to educate and mobilize the public.

As always we will expose the bad—how our deteriorating public health and chronic disease epidemic is directly related to our degenerative food, farming, and land use practices—while highlighting the good—how organic and local food and natural health practices can resolve our health, environmental, and climate crisis.

But we need your help to step up our truth-telling as we campaign to regenerate our politics, food, farming, and health.

If you’ve already donated recently, thank you so much for your support.

If not please consider giving us a donation now.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Daniel Dylan Wray reports for The Guardian:

“‘It’s amazing how big the scale of this story is,’ says Ashby, as we sit backstage at the Crucible theatre, where they are doing a live discussion as part of Sheffield DocFest. ‘With this series, we don’t just want it to make your blood turn cold, we want it to make you question your own blood itself.’

It all started when Taylor and Ashby were sent a lead about the work of former farmer’s representative Douglas Gowan. In 1967, he discovered a deformed calf in a field and began to investigate strange goings on with animals close to the Brofiscin and Maendy quarries in south Wales. He linked them to the dumping of waste by companies including the nearby Monsanto chemical plant, which was producing PCBs.”

Read about how “what Gowan had been trying to prove for years gained some traction in 2007” with pieces in The Ecologist and a Guardian article exploring how “Monsanto helped to create one of the most contaminated sites in Britain”

Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Toxic PFAS

Allison Aubrey, NPR:

“As many look forward to a new phase of life after retiring from their day jobs, there’s a need to reimagine places and spaces for people to thrive.

That’s what Wallis Annenberg is aiming to do. The 84-year-old CEO and president of the Annenberg Foundation wants to change the conversation on aging, and she envisioned a space where older people would gather to grow and learn.

Her vision was shaped by observations that troubled her. “I noticed older Americans sitting by themselves in restaurants, in movie theaters, in parks, in the middle of the day, and I’d think how sad,” Annenberg says. Too many people seemed cut off from society.

‘It’s just wrong that old age has become a time of social isolation, and I want to work to change that,’ she says.

Her vision has become a reality with GenSpace, a new kind of senior center in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, where people from all walks of life and backgrounds come to meet, take classes and share their skills, passions and personal journeys with each other.”



Read about this place that feels very different from traditional senior centers

Iris Myers writes for Environmental Working Group (EWG):

“What does bread have in common with explosives, industrial cleaners and photo-developing solution? You may be surprised to learn they’re all made with the same chemical ingredient.

In fact, many of the chemicals in common processed foods are also found in consumer and industrial products. And focusing just on their use in what we eat and drink, there’s cause for concern about the potential health risks from some of these substances.

Industrial uses of food chemicals:

Propylparaben, a preservative used in pastries and some tortillas, can also be found in batteries, floor cleaner and glue. In food, this chemical is known to cause developmental and reproductive harm. 



Potassium bromate is a dough conditioner in packaged baked goods. You can also find it in industrial cleaning agents, bombs and photo-developing solution. Food uses of this chemical may cause cancer in humans.”

Read about BHA, ADA, and synthetic food dyes and how the FDA has failed to adequately regulate these substances

8 Foods to Ward Off Allergy Symptoms

The Hazards of EMF and What You Can Do About It

Hempcrete Workshop Lays Foundation to Build Industry and Community

How Children Starve: One in Three Children in Northern Gaza Are Acutely Malnourished or Suffering From Wasting

Out of Sight, ‘Dark Fungi’ Run the World from the Shadows

Sea Salt vs. Table Salt: What’s the Difference?

Biden Administration Tries To Address Generations of USDA Racism Against Black Farmers and Others

Sanders Targets ‘Unacceptable’ Price of Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

21 Recipes With Fresh Basil to Use Up the Vibrant Herb

The Future of Water Governance in Canada Relies on Coastal Indigenous Legal Orders

How Your Gut Microbiome Affects Your Oxalate Tolerance

Texas Officials Kill Off Deer Breeder’s Entire Herd, Ending Yearslong Legal War Over CWD Management

What the Sticker on Your Fruit Can Tell You