Organic Consumers Association

This week in Organic Bytes: 🛑 Stop Heidi Overton’s FDA nomination The EPA’s inspector general audits the agency’s AI approval tools 🍋 Why the pesticide “cocktail effect” on citrus is a real concern 🦉 What birdwatching does to your brain 🍅 Read this and more here 👇 orgcns.org/4feNWHx

Your support goes a long way in the fight for a healthier food and farming system and planet: organicconsumers.org/we-prom…

British Colonizers Thought They Were Protecting Forests by Stopping Indigenous Burning. It’s Now Backfiring. organicconsumers.org/british…

UK Bluefin Tuna Comeback Shows Nature Can Recover organicconsumers.org/uk-blue…

Expect a huge dump of new Frankenfoods made with petrochemicals, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, lab-grown cells, and modified microbes. The FDA's giving amnesty to ingredients that were secretly snuck into your food without safety testing. For one year, companies will be able to say something's "generally recognized as safe" without any information to back it up. You have until December 9 to stop this. TAKE ACTION: advocacy.organicconsumers.or…

From the Farm to Your Door: How Our Global Food System Exploits Workers organicconsumers.org/from-th…

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Atrazine! advocacy.organicconsumers.or…

Child Exploitation Still Rampant in Cocoa Industry organicconsumers.org/child-e…

Become a Citizen Consumer: Learn What’s Behind the Label organicconsumers.org/the-cit…

The Protein Race: Big Food Files Thousands of New Patents organicconsumers.org/high-pr…

“A report released Monday says that exploitation is deeply embedded in the global food system, leaving many of the 1.4 billion people who produce, process, distribute, and deliver food poorly paid, inadequately protected, and vulnerable to abuse. Climate change and a global affordability crisis are intensifying those pressures, according to the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, or IPES-Food, an international food policy research organization. Although the document does not specifically focus on Indigenous peoples, it finds that many of the forces driving that exploitation have roots in the colonialism, land dispossession, forced labor, and racialized labor systems that have long harmed Indigenous communities worldwide. ‘Here we are in the United States, a country that’s founded on stealing land and the import of enslaved people to be able to make agriculture and agricultural labor possible and cheap,’ said Raj Patel, an IPES-Food expert and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.” And the legacy of that is still with us: organicconsumers.org/from-th…

"These precedents are a regional and global benchmark to contribute to the protection, guarantee and full exercise of the right to healthy, nutritious and adequate food for students, as well as the school community that coexists in these environments." Learn more: orgcns.org/47C675R

Syngenta/ChemChina’s atrazine is banned in more than 60 countries, but it is the second most widely used herbicide in the United States, and the number-one most commonly detected pesticide in tap water. Atrazine contaminates one-fifth of the surface water we draw from for drinking water. LEARN MORE: Syngenta/ChemChina’s Endocrine-Disrupting Atrazine organicconsumers.org/ban-syn… TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Atrazine! advocacy.organicconsumers.or… Watch Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes, whose findings on the health effects of the herbicide atrazine changed the organic movement forever. youtube.com/watch?v=hp-Bvp2o…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 6th Annual People’s Food Summit: Grassroots Rising! 🌱 For 24 hours we journeyed through every continent to meet with farmers, researchers, activists, and community leaders sharing the work they're doing in their corner of the regenerative world. If you missed any sessions or want to revisit your favorites, all videos will be available to watch within 48 hours at the link below. Share them with your networks and help us spread the word. Stay connected by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on social media. We’ll see you again next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2027. Thank you for being part of Grassroots Rising. 🌍 regenerationinternational.or… #PeoplesFoodSummit #GrassrootsRising #WorldFoodDay #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty

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