TAKE ACTION Tell Costco: Stop Pushing Toxic Roundup! In 2019, Costco reportedly stopped selling Roundup weed killer, but now it’s back. What’s up with that? The Roundup Costco sells now has an “Exc...

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April 9, 2025 | Source: Organic Consumers Association Along with engineering crops to be soaked in carcinogenic herbicides, Monsanto had another dastardly plan: to genetically modify plants to produ...

October 07, 2023 | Source: Attainable Sustainable | by Kris Bordessa I tend to maintain a pretty full pantry, so when things get dicey I don’t have to do a lot of over-the-top shopping, but not ever...

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Along with engineering crops to be soaked in carcinogenic herbicides, Monsanto had another bright idea: to genetically modify plants to produce insecticidal toxins. Unsurprisingly, after nearly 30 ye...

GENETIC ENGINEERING Insecticide-Producing GMOs Monsanto had two big ideas for how to “improve” crops with genetic engineering. The first was to make them impervious to herbicides. The second was to...

December 27, 2025 | Source: PlasticList Six months ago, we launched what seemed like a quick and easy project: to test 100 everyday foods for the presence of plastic chemicals. Sounds like fun, righ...

December 27, 2025 | Source: PlasticList Six months ago, we launched what seemed like a quick and easy project: to test 100 everyday foods for the presence of plastic chemicals. Sounds like fun, righ...

February 27, 2025 | Source: Fast Company | by Grace Snelling The nonprofit Environmental Working Group just released an update to its Tap Water Database, finding that nearly half of the American po...

March 26, 2025 | Source: Earth.org | by Madina Tussupov For years, media headlines have depicted a dire situation regarding global bee populations. While it is true that honey bee numbers in certain...

Organic farmers have never needed you more! Trump's USDA is still withholding payments owed to 30,715 local, regenerative and organic farmers promised $2.3 billion, including a grant OCA administers ...

April 02, 2025 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director Organic Consumers Association Why Organic Consumers Association Is Joining the April 5th Protests If you’re familiar with the Organic Cons...

TAKE ACTION Organic Has Never Needed You More Trump's USDA is still withholding reimbursements owed to 30,715 local, regenerative and organic farmers promised $2.3 billion, including a grant we adm...

On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole that allows dangerous food additives to enter the mark...

March 26, 2025 | Source: Organic Consumers Association On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loopho...

March 24, 2025 | Source: AP News | by Wyatte Grantham-Philips NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’...

March 24, 2025 | Source: AP News | by Wyatte Grantham-Philips NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’...

March 15, 2025 | Source: The Guardian | by Bee Wilson Acouple of years ago, nursery manager Melanie Smith, who runs Portland Kindergarten in Lincoln, noticed that many children were eating in a new w...

March 12, 2025 | Source: The New Lede | by Carey Gillam Farmers and food assistance groups around the country were reeling this week amid a series of moves by the Trump administration to cut funding...

March 18, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Ashley Armstrong For thousands of years, bread has been essential to human nutrition — a dietary staple enjoyed daily across countless cultures, likely beca...

March 15, 2025 | Source: U.S. Right to Know | by Pamela Ferdinand Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, disrupts female hormones and damages the ovaries and uterus in ways that can mak...

TAKE ACTION Stop Bayer’s Sneak Attack! Eleven corrupt State Attorneys General from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, and South D...

March 10, 2025 | Source: The Guardian | by Damian Carrington The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesise, ...

March 10, 2025 | Source: POLITICO | by Marcia Brown The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers,

Did you know that if you or a loved one is injured or killed by a vaccine or pharmaceutical drug, you may have no legal recourse, if the pharmaceutical company responsible is covered by a Public Readi...

March 07, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Dr. Joseph Mercola Air pollution is a silent menace with far-reaching health consequences, and it’s not just heavily polluted areas that are cause for alarm...

TAKE ACTION Ending Big Pharma’s Legal Immunity: The Case Against the PREP Act We don’t all agree on the best way to prevent and treat disease. Even among doctors, there’s a wide range of opinions ...

March 02, 2022 | Source: Forbes | by Errol Schweizer Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as milk protein, animal fats,

November 21, 2024 | Source: Wildfire Labs Substack | by Todd Gagne In 2021, Lisa Chen, a software engineer, started a new weight-loss medication. Then, something interesting happened at her local co...

Mexico is taking action to protect its rich reserve of native corn varieties from the genetic pollution of GMO corn. A new constitutional amendment prohibits the planting of genetically modified corn,...

February 26, 2025 | Source: ORGANIC INSIDER | by Max Goldberg Just a few weeks into the new administration, very meaningful cuts to all parts of the federal government have been initiated. This beg...

March 05, 2025 | Source: Organic Consumers Association, Regeneration International, and Vía Orgánica | by Ercilia Sahores and Mercedes López **UPDATE 3/6/2025: After five hours of deliberation, with...

INSPIRING VICTORY Great News in the Fight To Protect Native Corn in Mexico **UPDATE 3/6/2025: After five hours of deliberation, with a vote of 97 in favor and 16 opposing, the Mexican Senate approv...

February 18, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Ashley Armstrong Many are now well aware of the health consequences of overconsuming unsaturated fats in our diet. However, what many don't realize is th...

February 20, 2025 | Source: Des Moines Register | by Sabine Martin A bill that would limit Iowans' ability to sue agricultural chemical manufacturers for not warning users of potential health risks o...

February 13, 2025 | Source: The New Lede | by Douglas Main Opposition to the US practice of adding fluoride to drinking water supplies has been growing as more evidence accumulates linking fluoride ...

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TAKE ACTION 90 Agricultural Stakeholders Are Campaigning To Shield Bayer & Other Pesticide Manufacturers Sabine Martin reports for Des Moines Register: “A bill that would limit Iowans' ability to ...

April 27, 2015 | Source: Frontiers | by Ana Cláudia Coelho & Juan García Díez Advances and research in biotechnology have applications over a wide range of areas, such as microbiology, medicine, the...

January 16, 2025 | Source: U.S. Right to Know | by Pamela Ferdinand Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide best known as the active ingredient in Roundup®, has significantly harmed the health of babies i...

February 21, 2025 | Organic Consumers Association Dear Friends of the OCA, We know you understand the urgent need to transform our degenerative, agrochemical food system, which dominates our landsc...

November 18, 2024 | Source: IE University In a world that often emphasizes individual achievement and competition, it’s easy to overlook the quiet power of compassion and kindness. Yet, these qualit...

February 06, 2025 | Source: NewsBreak | by Hannah Twiggs Last year, the UK government made headlines by granting £1.6m to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to investigate something straight out of sci...

On its way out, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency said the herbicide atrazine should be allowed to contaminate the lakes and streams that eventually become our drinking water sources at levels u...

February 08, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Dr. Joseph Mercola Microplastics — miniscule particles measuring less than 5 millimeters that form when larger pieces of plastics break down — are now a ...

January 17, 2025 | Source: CNN Health | by Kristen Rogers Now that the US Food and Drug Administration has banned red dye No. 3, many people are criticizing or questioning the safety and the FDA’s al...