Organic Consumers Fund LaunchesGrassroots Netroots Alliance
T
he rganic onsumers und, the legislative and elec-toral advocacy group that rganic onsumers ssoci-ation (OCA) works with, ocuses on promoting organicagriculture as a solution to the ood saety problems, envi-ronmental destruction, diet-related diseases and climateimbalance that stem rom industrial agriculture. We alsosee ourselves as part o a larger movement or health, justice,sustainability, peace and democracy. s a contribution to thislarger movement, we’ve launched the
Grassroots NetrootsAlliance (GNA)
:
www.grassrootsnetroots.org
Te rst GNA project is a survey that asks politicians 40 detailed,substantive policy questions that explore concrete solutions tothe current crisis, including this question:
Would you support the conversion o 20%o US armland to energy-efcient and carbon-sequestering organic arming by 2020 and 50% by 2040,with at least 5-10% o the USDA’sannual $90 billion budget imme-diately being targeted to rebuild local ood systems and help arm-ers make the transition to organic?
ubscribe to GNA’s email alerts at:
www.grassrootsnetroots.org/subscribe.cm
Alert: Government Slashes Pesticide Reporting Laws
owing to pressure rom onsanto and the agro-toxics indus-try, the US epartment o griculture announced ay 21 that itplans to eliminate pesticide reporting at ational griculturaltatistics ervice (NASS). Te program has tracked nationalpesticide use and provided critical inormation or consumergroups, scientists, armers and environmental groups mon-itoring pesticide use and hazards. NASS’ elimination o thegricultural hemical se atabase is a direct attack on con-sumers and arm workers’ Right to now about pesticideresidues and ood saety. Pesticide reporting has become par-ticularly important in the last ten years with GE crops requir-ing more and more pesticides.Please contact USDA ecretary d chaer & your ongressper-son today:
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12662.cm
California Files Suit AgainstWhole Foods, Avalon and Others
Reacting in part to a study released by the OCA in arch, andon their own testing, aliornia’s ttorney eneral has leda major lawsuit against body care household-cleaning productcompanies whose products recently tested highest or the car-cinogenic contaminant 1,4-ioxane. nder aliornia’s “Prop-osition 65” consumer products that contain toxic levels o 1,4ioxane must have warning labels stating they may cause can-cer. Read the OCA press release at
organicconsumers.org/bodycare/
OCA Files Suit for False and Misleading “Organic”Certication of Personal Care Products
Te plot has thickened in OCA’s
Coming Clean Campaign
. srevealed previously in
Organic Bytes
, a number o well knownbody care product companies were recently suedby r. ronner’s agic oaps or mislead-ingly labeling or certiying their products as“rganic,” even though many o their mainingredients are composed o conventionalagricultural and petrochemical material, withno certied organic material.Te rench certier cocert has been particularly outrageousin certiying such products as “rganic” and last month leda preemptive lawsuit against the OCA, in a ruitless attempt tosilence concerned organic consumers and armers. OCA hasled a counter-suit against cocert. Te brie can be read on-line at:
organicconsumers.org/bodycare/ecocert-crosscomplaint.pd
OCA is a party with r. ronner’s in the consolidated litigationgoing orward with all deendants. We appreciate any and alldonations to help us win this crucial ght to preserve organicintegrity in personal care. Learn more and take action:
www.organicconsumers.org/bodycare/
OCA Presents Testimony to Government Panel
Te advisory panel established to oversee US ederal organicstandards (ational rganic tandards oard) met in Wash-ington DC last week to discuss various issues related to theorganic market. OCA’s lexis aden-ayer was there to pres-ent testimony on behal o organic consumers everywhere.lexis covered a wide variety o topics o concern, includingorganic mislabeling, sh arming, synthetic ingredients inorganic products, dairy pasture guidelines, and community grower groups. Read her ull testimony at
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12488.cm
Food and Consumer News Tidbits with an Edge… From the Organic Consumers Association · www.organicconsumers.org
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