TELL COCA-COLA TO STOP FUNDING ANTI-LABELING CAMPAIGNS

What do Monsanto and Coke have in common? They’ve both spent millions of dollars to keep you in the dark about the foods you buy. In fact, Coca-Cola is one of the largest contributors to the defeat of state labeling efforts. Sign the petition to tell Coca-Cola to stop funding efforts to block the labeling of genetically engineered foods!

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DEMAND THE WHITE HOUSE PROTECT THE NATION'S BEES

This Saturday is National Honey Bee Day – it’s time to demand meaningful action from President Obama! Two months ago, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum outlining efforts to "promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators." Urge President Obama to take meaningful steps to curb the impacts of pesticides on bees and other pollinators.

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MONSANTO: ENGINEERING THE DEBATE OVER GENETIC ENGINEERING

By Andrew Kimbrell, CFS Executive Director

August 9, 2014

I was recently approached by a division of the publishing giant Condé Nast to participate in a video series examining issues related to food, agriculture, and the environment. I was told experts from a variety of disciplines, including representatives of the Monsanto Company, would participate. That was fine with me. And given the ever-increasing interest in food systems and genetic engineering's wide-ranging effects on soil, water, climate change, and our bodies, I wasn't surprised that Condé Nast was willing to put significant resources into this journalistic endeavor....What did surprise me was to find out that it wasn't a journalistic endeavor; it was actually paid advertising on behalf of Monsanto.

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PROVING ORGANIC IS GOOD FOR YOU

By Lisa J. Bunin, PhD, Organic Policy Director

August 6th, 2014

You know intuitively that organic food is good for you and that it’s the healthiest choice you can make at the farmer’s market and grocery store. Your gut tells you that organic is better for you than food sprayed with synthetic toxic pesticides designed to kill insects, fungus, and weeds. It’s the absence of these dangerous chemicals in organic agriculture that consumers believe makes organic food inherently healthier—and rightly so.

Increasingly, rigorous scientific research is confirming the wisdom of these intuitive feelings. Take, for example, the new study in the British Journal of Nutrition, which shows that organic is healthier precisely because synthetic toxic pesticides are prohibited.

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WHAT TOLEDO’S WATER CRISIS REVEALS ABOUT INDUSTRIAL FARMING

By Doug Gurian-Sherman, PhD, CFS Senior Scientist & Director of Sustainable Agriculture

August 5th, 2014

As you may have heard, about half a million people in the Toledo, Ohio area lost their municipal drinking water supply on Saturday because of possible microbial toxin contamination from Lake Erie. A combination of heavier spring rains, exacerbated by climate change and runoff of phosphorus from fertilizer applied to crops, is the likely cause. The good news is that farmers can adopt better practices to eliminate this problem. The bad news is that the agricultural industry, and the public policies that it lobbies for, work against these solutions.

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