Breaking the Chains
OCA’s Campaign to Mobilize Socially Responsible Consumers into a Powerful Force for Change
OCA’s Breaking the Chains Campaign is focusing consumers’ attention on how each purchasing decision can lead to a safer, greener, and more equitable society. Millions of green minded consumers around the world have broken the chains of corporate control in their own lives, by supporting organic, Fair Made, and locally produced products and businesses.
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Read Current Issue — June 11, 2026
Newsletter #944: The Deadliest Chemical in U.S. Agriculture Is Still Legal
In This Issue:
- Vermont Bans Paraquat—Your State Should Be Next
- Lab-Grown Chocolate Is Coming — But at What Cost?
- Learning to Cook Could Lower Your Dementia Risk By 70%
- This Work Doesn’t Happen Without You
- Human Embryo Gene Editing Just Got More Precise
- Rachel Ward Gave up Glamour for Cows and a Not-So-Simple Country Life
- Top Ultra-Processed Food Researchers Call for Sweeping Policy Change: ‘The System Is Rigged’
- Regenerative Farms Lost Three Times Less Yield in France’s Droughts. Here’s Why.
- Join Regeneration International’s Certificate Course July 6 – August 4, 2026
- Nearly 300 Studies Link the Common Pesticide Chlorpyrifos to Multi-Organ Damage, DNA Disruption, and Chronic Disease
- 8 Of The Fastest Growing Vegetables For Your Garden
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