An Organic Consumers Association newsletter reports that Vermont dairy farmers applied more than 2.5 million pounds of metolachlor, atrazine and simazine to cornfields from 1999 to 2012, data Regeneration Vermont pulled from state records the agriculture agency had left unanalyzed.
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No more Monsanto money! - Newsletter 081716 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to petition their senators after Congress preempted Vermont's GMO labeling law, noting that biotech and junk food interests spent about $400 million against labeling while polls show roughly 90 percent of Americans support it.
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This Company Wouldn't Lie to You, Would It? - newsletter 081216 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter: Martha Rosenberg's essay says most U.S. shrimp is imported from Southeast Asia and raised with chemicals not approved here, with labels revealing little. An action alert accuses Tom's of Maine of wrongly calling its toothpaste organic.
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Catch the Rock Against the TPP Tour in Portland and Seattle!
The Organic Consumers Association promotes free Rock Against the TPP concerts in Seattle on August 19 and Portland on August 20, where Fair World Project director Dana Geffner will speak, and asks readers to tell Congress they oppose the trade deal.
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Help Stop Mandatory Fluoridation for Nearly 5 Million People
A campaign bulletin asks readers to help Fluoride Free New Zealand fight a national fluoridation mandate, through petition signatures and donations for two television commercials. It also promotes a limited-edition t-shirt sale that ends August 15.
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What Would Gandhi Do? newsletter 080516 from Organic Consumer Association
Ronnie Cummins responds to Obama signing S.764, which preempts Vermont's mandatory GMO labeling law and substitutes a federal measure that OCA says requires no readable label and exempts most GMO ingredients. He argues consumers should turn to boycotts and marketplace pressure.
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Not so fast, DARK Act from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety says President Obama quietly signed the DARK Act, which could make existing GMO labeling disappear, and asks supporters to fund a federal lawsuit it plans to file within two weeks challenging the law's constitutionality.
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Advocates Call for Meaningful Public Participation in Federal Regulation of Biotech
Twenty-four farmer and public interest groups asked the Obama administration to run a new public engagement process in its overhaul of biotech regulation, saying USDA, EPA and FDA meetings were poorly located and publicized. The letter follows summer dicamba drift damage in three states.
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Help Sonoma County Ban GMO Crops!
The Organic Consumers Association asks for donations to pass a November ballot initiative banning GMO crop growing in Sonoma County, the last unprotected county on California's northwest coast. It warns cross-contamination could cost organic farms their certification.
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Even though Obama didn't veto the DARK Act ..
Congress passed and President Obama signed S.764, which wipes out Vermont's GMO labeling law. The writer says it exempts most processed foods, defines genetic engineering narrowly, allows QR codes instead of on-package text and carries no penalty, but argues voluntary labels are already working.
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President Obama Capitulates to Big Food, Signs DARK Act Into Law
Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter's statement on the GMO labeling bill President Obama signed: it lets companies use QR codes, bar codes or 1-800 numbers instead of on-package labels, nullifies Vermont's law, preempts other states, and sets no penalties for noncompliance.
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Lights Out? newsletter 072816 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter warns that pesticide and seed giants are consolidating through the Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont and ChemChina-Syngenta deals, and urges readers to press President Obama to veto the DARK Act before the end of Friday, July 29.
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Stop Watering Our Crops with Toxic Oil Wastewater!
A Center for Food Safety petition asks readers to tell Governor Brown and the state water board to stop California growers from irrigating crops with oil-industry wastewater, arguing no independent testing has been done and that plans would expand the practice.
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Is Kosher Slaughter More Humane?
Animal expert Temple Grandin's account undercuts the idea that ritual slaughter is gentler: some plants still hoist conscious cattle and veal calves by one hind leg to avoid paying for humane restraints, and animals whose throats are cut unstunned can stay conscious over 60 seconds.
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New T-shirts Available for a Limited Time
A fundraising email from the Fluoride Action Network announcing a limited-edition summer T-shirt sale running until August 15, with proceeds going to the group's work against fluoride exposure.
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We took your message to Philly
The Center for Food Safety is running a full-page open letter to President Obama in the Philadelphia Inquirer to coincide with the Democratic National Convention, urging a veto of a GMO labeling bill that lets companies use QR codes and phone numbers instead of on-package text.
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New Powerful Campaign Video Featuring Dentist - from Fluoridealert.org
In a Fluoride Action Network video, dentist Griffin Cole argues FDA should ban fluoride supplements. FAN says large pharmacies keep selling the unapproved drugs and that pharmacists gave callers false information, and asks supporters to post at Walgreens.
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FWW, NFU Appeal to Foreign Investment Oversight Committee to Block ChemChina/Syngenta Acquisition
Food & Water Watch and the National Farmers Union asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to block ChemChina's purchase of Syngenta, arguing the deal would further consolidate seed and farm input markets and treat food security as national security.
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