A year-end fundraising letter from the Organic Consumers Association, arguing that regenerative agriculture can feed the world and cool the planet, and noting that Mercola.com and Dr. Bronner's will match the first $250,000 raised by December 31.
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A Report (on Fluoridation) from New Zealand
This is a Fluoride Action Network fundraising appeal, reporting $90,352 raised from 300 donors and listing matching pledges tied to donor milestones ahead of its year-end goals.
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Show your support for Organic Consumers Association
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Association asks readers to help reach a $250,000 year-end goal, citing the appointment of Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris to lead the incoming administration's American Manufacturing Council.
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Fluoridation and Human Rights
A Fluoride Action Network appeal marks Human Rights Day by arguing that adding fluoride to drinking water to treat people, rather than to make the water safe, violates the right to informed consent. It also reports $33,454 raised from 176 donors.
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Bring the Buffalo Home - Newsletter 120916 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter argues activists should copy the cross-issue solidarity that won at Standing Rock, and go further by helping that community restore its land rather than simply moving on to the next fight.
Law & Regulations
Statement on USDA Final Rule on Enhanced Retailer Standards in SNAP
United Fresh president Tom Stenzel welcomed USDA's final rule requiring SNAP retailers to stock seven varieties of fruits and vegetables with three units each, calling it a win for both SNAP families and the small stores his group asked USDA not to overburden.
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Biotech Bullies Will Rule the New FDA and EPA - newsletter 111716 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues Monsanto and its allies are tightening their grip on food and farming after the 2016 election, citing Politico's report on Trump's agriculture talking points and his EPA transition pick. It urges state and local organizing and more food testing.
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Election Day Fluoridation Results, New Interviews, & November's Teleconference
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter reports that seven Maine towns voted 66% to 34% to end fluoridation in the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District, which shut off its equipment on November 9, and asks readers to help its FDA petition reach 12,000 signers.
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Politics be damned. Let's exercise our true power. - Newsletter 110916 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association urges readers to turn from the 2016 election back to grassroots food and farming work, and flags a request by 56 biotech and food industry groups for $3 million in taxpayer money to promote GMO products.
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We congratulate President-Elect Donald J. Trump - statement of Robert Guenther
United Fresh Produce Association's Robert Guenther congratulates President-elect Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the incoming 115th Congress, and says the group will work with them on food safety, immigration reform, nutrition, farm policy, trade and taxes.
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Just for today, don't think of yourself as a food activist - newsletter 110316 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter asking readers to back the #NoDAPL protests at Standing Rock and to drop single-issue labels, connecting the Dakota Access pipeline to what it calls collusion among Big Oil, Big Food, Big Pharma and other large industries.
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Industry Watchdog: USDA Allowing Illegal “Organic” Produce Production
The Cornucopia Institute says the USDA has quietly let more than 100 soil-less operations be certified organic, and has filed a legal complaint against several agribusinesses and their certifiers. The National Organic Standards Board votes in November on whether to allow hydroponics.
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Trust the Feds? Are They Kidding? Newsletter 102716 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter revisits Rachel Carson's warning about the stream of new chemicals, argues U.S. regulators have delayed acting on glyphosate and atrazine while the EU banned dozens of pesticides, and cites the 2010 President's Cancer Panel.
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Letter from the Hague - Newsletter 102116 from Organic Consumers Association
Ronnie Cummins recaps the Monsanto Tribunal and People's Assembly held in The Hague on October 14-16, arguing that activists must stop working as separate single-issue and national movements and build one globally coordinated “Long March” of resistance and regeneration.
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Do you buy Halos? Think again
Campaigners join Breast Cancer Action's 2016 Think Before You Pink effort, asking Bee Sweet Citrus and Wonderful Citrus to stop irrigating mandarins with oil wastewater. They argue the practice has not been proven safe for the public or for farm workers, and call the pink ribbons pinkwashing.
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it's up to us - Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety asks supporters to donate so it can press the next president on GMO labeling, pollinators and food safety. It notes members pushed a question on mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods to 9,425 votes, 68th out of nearly 16,000.
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Mackay Victory, Ontario Mandate Threat, & Major Teleconference
Mackay, Australia's council voted 6-5 to end water fluoridation after forums, hearings and a survey in which 46 percent of residents opposed the practice and 39 percent favored it. Only 24 of Queensland's 77 councils still fluoridate. FAN's October teleconference audio is posted.
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How to Win Your Campaign -- Don't Miss This Teleconference
The Fluoride Action Network invites campaigners to a free teleconference where Rick North will explain how fluoridation was voted down in Portland and Newport, Oregon, and share post-election polling on which arguments and audiences worked best.
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