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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Organic Bytes Newsletter
Read Current Issue — October 1, 2026
Newsletter #958: Monsanto Won in Court. Don’t Let the EPA Win Too.

In This Issue:
- What the U.S. Supreme Court’s Pesticide Ruling Means for Gardeners and Farm Workers
- Tell the EPA to Ban Glyphosate Now
- Rosemary Is Linked to Better Memory, Lower Anxiety and Alzheimer’s Protection
- The People’s Food Summit: Grassroots Rising on Every Continent
- Hormone-Disrupting Chemical Mixtures Linked To Excess Childhood Weight
- Help Us Keep Showing Up to These Fights
- Hormone-Disrupting Herbicide Contaminating 25% of Continental U.S. Rivers, Report Finds
- Ban Toxic Sewage Sludge From Farmland
- Send Your Candidates a Questionnaire on Pesticides Before the Midterms
- Human Brain Cells for Sale? The Troubling Rise of “Biological” Computers.
- The September Regeneration International Newsletter Is Out
- Other Essential Reading and Videos for the Week
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