Boxed Veggies Go to SNAP Reciepients; Rise in Sickness: Cheap Meat Means Dirty Farming; Great Tasting Milk Alternatives; Cape Town Is Enduring Extreme Water Scarcity Now;

Posted on February 22, 2018

What Exactly is in the Proposed Plan for Making America Great, again?? “America’s Harvest Box” is what Trump’s administration has called its plan to substitute prepackaged, low-quality processed foods for some of the food assistance currently being received by an … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #alternative milk, #andy fisher, #big hunger, #Climate Change, #dirty farming, #Food Politics, #industrialized meat production, #Marion Nestle, #oatly vegan, #OCA, #Organic Consumers Association, #Sierra Club, #snap benefits, #trump plan harvest box, #water scarcity

February 16: A Conversation with OCA’s Ronnie Cummins

Posted on February 13, 2017

On Thursday, February 16 at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST, OCA will hold a national call-in to talk about how together, we can #resist the corporate and political takeover of our future, and #regenerate our health, our communities, our economy … Read More

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Save the Soil; Chemically Driven; Skin Care Bad for Black Women

Posted on January 3, 2017

Save the Soil One of the last acts of the Obama Administration was to recognize the importance of soil. The new ‘Federal Strategic Plan for Soil Science‘ says: “Soil is essential to human life. Not only is it vital for … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #ayurveda, #black lives matter, #black women, #chemicals, #Environmental Working Group, #EWG, #obama administration, #OCA, #Organic Consumers Association, #skin deep scandal, #soil strategy

Keep Climate Denial at Bay; Protect our Food Safety; Moving Away From Roundup; Stop Organic Fraud

Posted on November 29, 2016

‘Don’t Let a Climate Denier Run the EPA’ Sign the petition here to tell Trump not to appoint one of America’s top climate deniers, Myron Ebell, to run his Environmental Protection Agency transition team. What is even more scary, is he … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #acrylamide, #association, #ban, #climate denial, #commissioner, #compound, #environmental protection agency, #EPA, #glyphosate, #GMO, #Monsanto, #OCA, #organic, #organic consumers assocaition, #protect food safety, #roundup, #toxic chemicals, #trump, #WHO

Protect Tierra Madre & Tropical Palms; Improve Organic Standards; Boycott Orville’s Popcorn; Ban Glyphosate; Halloween Candy Tricks Without Treats

Posted on November 1, 2016

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Help Protect Mother Earth and Tropical Palm Forests Palm Oil consumption has always been popular for its higher yield of crops and when some people declared Palm Oil ‘healthier’ than other vegetable oils, the demand went even higher. Regardless that there has … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #ban glyphosate, #bayer, #bee killing pesticides, #big food production, #biomass, #Climate Change, #deforestation, #ecological destruction, #EPA, #forest fires, #gina mccarthy, #greenhouse gases, #halloween candy, #Jonathan Lundgren, #losing ozone layer, #Mars, #modern day slavery, #Monsanto, #nanomaterials, #neonic insecticides, #OCA, #Organic Consumers Association, #organic consumers fund, #palm oil is evil, #peer, #pollinators, #protecting employees that protect the environment, #regeneration, #scientific research, #social justice issues, #sugar is killing us, #tax-deductible, #toxic chemicals, #tropical palm forests, #usda, #yoga mat chemical in food

Take Action: Support FoodCorps Work in Maine Schools, Child Nutrition Re-authorization Bill, Support the Consumers Revolution, NRDC Fundraiser Fights Pthalates

Posted on September 6, 2016

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Farm to Institution in Maine Schools On October 14th, there will be a conference for presenters, sponsors, and attendees to network and share information about the three pillars of Farm to School programs and its implementation at state level. One example of this working is with … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #animal welfare, #Bangor, #Capitol Area Maine, #Child Nutrition Re-authorization Bill, #children's health, #Consumer Product Safety Commission, #education, #food labeling, #food packaging, #food policy, #foodcorps, #grassroots organization, #healthy communities, #ME, #NRDC, #OCA, #Office of Food Additive Safety, #Organic Consumers Association, #philanthropy fundraiser, #Pthalates, #toxic chemicals, #transparency

Take Action: Call Your Senators to Say No to the DARK Act 2.0; Tell Your Representatives to Pass the WATER Act; Tell Tyson to Stop Polluting our Water

Posted on July 5, 2016

Call Your Senators to Say No to the DARK Act 2.0 The July 1st deadline for Vermont’s GMO labeling law has passed, but that doesn’t mean our work is done. The Food Babe has a great explanation here as to why … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #American public, #animal abuse, #chicken farming, #DARK act, #donation, #Factory Farming, #federal labeling, #fishkills, #food industry, #GMO labeling, #GMO's, #lead pipes, #lobbying, #Monsanto, #OCA, #Organic Consumer Association, #Organic Trade Association, #pollutants, #public interest, #Senator Debbie Stabenow, #Senator Pat Roberts, #tyson, #Vermont, #water, #WATER Act, #waterways