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 — September 3, 2026
Newsletter #955: Impossible Burger, Fake Eggs, Fake Whey: The GMOs Hiding in Plain Sight
In This Issue:
- Iowa Pays ADM $2.23 Million to Manufacture Synthetic Egg Protein
- Where’s The Beef?
- On Oregon’s Coast, Port Orford Fishers Are Changing How We Eat Seafood
- With an Explosion of Autism, Higher Detection of 49 Pesticides in Baby Teeth of Diagnosed Children Raises Alarm
- The Fake Food Nobody Is Labeling
- In Canada, an Ancient Food Story Predates the Vineyards by 10,000 Years
- USDA Cyclospora Research Projects Shelved Amid Funding Cuts and Relocations
- Why We Created a People’s Alternative to the UN Food Summit
- I Planted These 12 Foods Once. I’m Still Harvesting Them Decades Later.
- Wendell Berry, Writer and Activist Who Fought Corporate Takeover of U.S. Farming, Dies at 92
- Other Essential Reading and Videos for the Week
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