The Organic Consumers Association argues that “local,” “natural” and “non-GMO” labels often mean little and get co-opted by corporations charging a premium. It also corrects an earlier email: EPA has not yet approved Dow's 2,4-D and glyphosate herbicide mix.
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Ireland May Be Next Country to End Fluoridation
Dublin's City Council voted 22-20 on October 6 to call for an immediate end to water fluoridation in Ireland, the last country that mandates it nationwide. Campaigners expect the vote to sway a debate already under way in the Oireachtas.
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After Six Years of Inaction, Consumer Organizations Urge Feds to Implement Catfish Inspection Program
A coalition including Food & Water Watch, Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumers League asked the Office of Management and Budget to create the catfish inspection program the 2008 Farm Bill required by December 2009. FDA now inspects 2 percent of imports.
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Tell President Obama: Stop the Toxic Madness!
An action alert urging readers to write to President Obama and call the White House to oppose EPA approval of Dow's Enlist Duo, a herbicide combining glyphosate and 2,4-D, and the GMO corn and soy crops it would be sprayed on.
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Top 5 pesticide laden fruits & vegetables - Newsletter 1-06-2014 from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety newsletter reports new experimental GE wheat contamination in Montana, names the five most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables worth buying organic, and features Moby on the decline of bees.
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URGENT: Phone a Friend! - Newsletter 10-02-2014 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter pairing an essay on organic, shade-grown and fair trade coffee with a call for volunteers to phone Oregon voters ahead of the November vote on GMO labeling Measure 92.
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Reminder: Seeds of Doubt Conference with Jeffrey Smith in Colorado October 11, 2014
A reminder for the Seeds of Doubt conference in Colorado on October 11, 2014, where Jeffrey Smith, Don Huber, Michael Antoniou, Gilles-Eric Séralini and others will present research and strategies on GMOs, health, labeling and environmental impact.
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Biotech and Agribusinesses Spending Heavily to Defeat State GMO Food Labeling Votes
The Cornucopia Institute released an infographic showing which food companies back or oppose the November 4 GMO labeling initiatives in Colorado and Oregon, noting that owners of some leading organic and natural brands are funding the opposition alongside DuPont, Dow, Monsanto and the GMA.
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Food at the Table. Finally - Newsletter 09.26.2014 from Organic Consumers Association
OCA describes marching under its “Cook Organic Not the Planet” banner in the People's Climate March, in a food justice contingent of nearly 50,000, and argues industrial agriculture is a major greenhouse gas source that organic regenerative farming could counter.
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Food Facility Biennial Registration Renewal
FDA reminds food facilities that the Food Safety Modernization Act requires them to renew their registrations every even-numbered year between October 1 and December 31, and points to three guidance documents updated in 2012 explaining who must register and how.
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Pepsi spends big to defeat OR labeling bill
A Center for Food Safety appeal: PepsiCo put a quarter of a million dollars into defeating Measure 92, Oregon's ballot initiative to label genetically engineered food, with voting a month away. Big food firms spent nearly $70 million against similar measures in California and Washington.
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Stop AquaBounty’s Campaign of Misinformation on GMO Salmon
Food & Water Watch asked the SEC to correct AquaBounty's filings, which claim its GMO salmon will not need a label though the FDA has made no labeling decision. The group says the filings also omitted disease problems at the company's facility and grocers' refusals to stock the fish.
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FDA food safety challenge to spur new technologies for fighting foodborne illness
The agency is offering a $500,000 prize pool for breakthrough ways to detect disease-causing organisms in food, especially Salmonella in minimally processed fresh produce. Judges from the FDA, CDC and USDA will pick winners; the competition launches September 23.
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Stop Monsanto's new GE crops
Center for Food Safety asks readers to petition USDA to reject Monsanto's dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton, arguing that Roundup Ready crops drove the glyphosate use that bred resistant superweeds and that approval would put millions more pounds of dicamba into the air, water and food.
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Cornucopia: USDA Maintains Pattern of Corporate Appointments
The Cornucopia Institute criticizes the USDA's choice of four new members for the National Organic Standards Board, saying the selection ran in secrecy despite requests for openness and again favored the organic corporate lobby over farmers, businesses and consumers.
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Cook Organic Not the Planet - Newsletter 091914 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues that mitigating global warming is not enough and that regenerative organic farming, ranching and land use could sequester hundreds of billions of tons of excess CO2. It cites James Hansen's 2008 call to bring atmospheric CO2 down to 350 ppm.
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Seeds of Doubt Conference with Jeffrey Smith in Colorado October 11, 2014
Jeffrey Smith headlines a day-long Colorado conference on GMOs October 11, 2014, with speakers including Don Huber, Michael Antoniou, Gilles-Eric Séralini and Robyn O'Brien, covering health concerns, labeling campaigns, environmental effects and the politics of biotech.
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Response needed: EWG's Food Database
A fundraising appeal from Dr. Mark Hyman asks readers to help cover the $60,000 EWG still needs to finish its Food Database, which will rate more than 80,000 foods on nutrition, hazards and processing. GRACE Communications Foundation will match donations.
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